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TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases

Dustin Terry | True Crime Journalist

TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases was founded by Dustin Terry, who also serves as its host. The show takes listeners on a deep dive into the chilling world of true crime and cold cases that have left communities searching for answers. Each episode uncovers mysteries ranging from haunting murder stories to puzzling disappearances, exploring the evidence and unraveling the threads of cases that have long remained unsolved.Through careful investigative journalism, the podcast

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17:20

John Hartenfeld’s Cold Case and His Son’s Long Search...

TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases ·

2026/04/07

Send us Fan MailIn August 1996, John Hartenfeld drove into the mountains of northern New Mexico for a solo fly fishing trip and never came home. His Toyota 4-Runner was found two months later on remote ranch land — every fingerprint wiped from the vehicle. His credit card had already been used, four days after he vanished, to buy a small and troubling amount of two-stroke fuel. Private investigators and law enforcement both concluded foul play. No one was ever prosecuted.John's son James

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11:29

15 Year Old Shaylee Snyder Was Lured & Murdered

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2026/04/03

Send us Fan Mail #JusticeForShaylee: She Was Not a Runaway Fifteen-year-old Shaylee Snyder disappeared from Indianapolis on February 10, 2025. Her family went to police with burner phones, medical records, and eyewitness accounts — and were told, "She's probably bipolar. There ain't nothing we can do." Twelve days later, Shaylee was found dead beside railroad tracks, bruised from head to toe, next to a burning car. She was a Jane Doe for three days. No one has been charged. In this episode, w...

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7:55

Grandpa Guy Monroe Pyke Just Simple Disappeared. Why?

TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases ·

2026/04/03

Send us Fan MailIn April 1999, 70-year-old Guy Pyke pulled into his cousin's driveway in Evans Mills, New York — and never got out of the car. A barking dog kept him away. He backed out, drove north, and was never seen again.No body. No crash site. No trace of his midnight blue Chevy Blazer. Just silence — for 26 years and counting.We sit down with Jennifer Wood, Guy's granddaughter, who has spent decades fighting to correct the record, coordinating underwater search teams, and refusing to

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14:05

People Know Gary Butler's Killer But Won't Say

TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases ·

2026/04/02

Send us Fan Mail On the morning of February 26, 1996, 25-year-old Gary Butler was found dead in a retention pond in Manville, New Jersey. Police initially called it a hit-and-run. The evidence said otherwise. Nearly thirty years later, no one has been charged — but according to Gary's sister Michelle, the people of Manville already know who did it. We sit down with Michelle Butler, who has spent decades demanding answers, to hear what the investigation got wrong, what the community won't say ...

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9:56

Who Killed Devan Sanders? A Community's Loss

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2026/03/28

Send us Fan MailDevan Sanders came home from work around 11 p.m. on a stormy August night in 2018. Something — or someone — drew him back outside into the rain. He was found shot to death on the side of his own house hours later, steps from his front door in Dayton, Ohio. He was 25 years old. He worked two jobs, drove relief supplies to Flint, Michigan, and once saved a stranger's life without ever knowing it. His killer has never been caught. Today, we sit down with the woman who supervised

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8:44

Who Killed Patricia Shea? An Investigation

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2026/03/27

Send us Fan MailOn the night of July 25, 1982, Patricia "Pat" Shea — a beloved physician's assistant from Rockaway Beach, Queens — crossed the street to check on an elderly neighbor. She was found strangled eleven miles away in Brooklyn's Prospect Park the next day. More than four decades later, no one has ever been charged.In this episode, we speak exclusively with Kevin Shea, Pat's nephew, who has spent decades pushing for answers — filing FOIA requests, tracking missing

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9:43

Croft and Barrow Jane Does Family Speaks About...

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2026/03/26

Send us Fan MailIn November 2008, an electric company crew replacing a power pole in Oklahoma City made a grim discovery — the partial remains of a young woman. She was Native American, estimated to be between 17 and 23 years old, and she had no name. The only clue she left behind was a pair of black Croft & Barrow shoes. For sixteen years, she was known as the Croft & Barrow Jane Doe.Her name was Amy Elizabeth Davis.In this episode, we sit down with Darlene Nixon — Amy's biological

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18:17

Someone Close to Elizibeth Green Knows Something and...

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2026/03/26

Send us Fan MailIn April 2024, 21-year-old Elizibeth "Lizzy" Green walked out the front door of her home in Callao, Utah — a remote desert community of fewer than 50 people — and was never seen again. Nearly two years later, no physical evidence has been found. No arrests have been made. And the case has received almost no national attention.In this episode, we sit down with Kale Green, Elizibeth's father, for an exclusive interview. He shares what investigators found — and

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16:44

Was Jack Morgan Killed by his Dad for Being Gay?

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2026/03/25

Send us Fan MailIn December 1996, fifteen-year-old Jack Morgan vanished from his San Diego home after an argument with his father. No clothes taken. No money. No note. Nothing.Authorities called it a runaway case. His father called it closed — throwing out every photo, every belonging, forbidding Jack's name from being spoken in the house, blocking his mother and aunt from speaking to police, and personally killing a planned America's Most Wanted broadcast that might have found him.The

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6:39

Maryah Hope Allen Walked Out of Jail and Vanished

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2026/03/24

Send us Fan MailEpisode Description:In April 2018, 17-year-old Maryah Hope Allen walked out of a Galveston County jail cell in Texas — and vanished. Today, her grandmother Phyllis Jones, the woman who raised her, is breaking her silence. She tells us about the older man who groomed Maryah starting at 16, the drug addiction that followed, a debt to a dealer who held the title to her car, and a phone call from jail that would be the last time they ever spoke. Seven years later, Maryah has never been

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15:41

Jimmie Retha Brown and a Suspect Who "Allegedly" Got...

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2026/03/21

Send us Fan MailIn the summer of 1977, sixteen-year-old Jimmie Retha Brown got into a van with a man her friend said she could trust. She was never seen alive again.Found bound and strangled in the New Mexico desert days later, Jimmie's murder set off a chain of events that would claim a second life — an eighteen-year-old who named her killer to anyone who would listen, then died before justice could catch up.Nearly fifty years later, the case remains unsolved. But the name has never gone

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6:09

Douglas "DJ" Shondel II Is a Case That Should've Been...

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2026/03/21

Send us Fan MailIt has been more than two decades since Douglas James Shondel II — known to those who loved him as “DJ” — died under circumstances that his family, and even first responders, found deeply troubling. He was 21 years old. His mother, Pam Scott, has spent every year since searching for answers that have never come.On Sunday, March 11, 2001, DJ was found unresponsive in the bathtub of the apartment he shared with his pregnant girlfriend, at 100 N. 16th Street in Fairfield, Iowa, the

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8:21

Who Killed Claude Wendell Johnson?

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2026/03/20

Send us Fan Mail Who Killed Claude Wendell Johnson? More than four decades have passed, but Tammie Johnson still doesn't have answers — and she's not giving up. In this deeply personal episode, we sit down with Tammie Johnson, the daughter of Claude Wendell Johnson, a man who was found dead in 1981 under circumstances that have haunted his family ever since. Claude was discovered with blunt force trauma to the head, his death leaving more questions than answers — and a daughter left to grieve...

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9:33

Deanna Merryfield Updates | Unsolved

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2026/03/14

Send a text In July 1990, 13-year-old Deanna Merryfield disappeared from Killeen, Texas under circumstances that remain deeply troubling more than three decades later. In this episode of The Cold Cases Podcast, I sit down with Melissa, Deanna’s sister, to discuss the heartbreaking details of the case, the mistakes made in the early investigation, and the new developments that may finally lead to answers. Deanna was last seen in the early morning hours of July 22, 1990, when she left her grand...

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52:43

Brian Bryanson’s Crime Family Story: Witness to...

TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases ·

2026/03/07

Send a text What is it like to grow up inside a family where crime isn’t just something you hear about on the news—but something you witness firsthand? In this gripping episode, Dustin Terry of TheColdCases.com sits down with Brian Bryanson, a man who says he grew up in the shadow of a Texas crime family whose activities stretched from the 1970s through the 1990s. According to Bryanson, the roots of the operation began with his grandfather and expanded into trafficking networks that operated ...

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19:27

Pacific Atrocities Education Discusses WWII War...

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2026/01/22

Send us a textIn this powerful episode, we sit down with Jenny Chan, founder of Pacific Atrocities Education ( https://www.pacificatrocities.org ), to explore the hidden history of Imperial Japan's systematic atrocities during World War II—a chapter largely erased from American consciousness. From the Roosevelt administration's alleged censorship of Japanese war crimes to the horrific experiments of Unit 731, we delve into the uncomfortable truths that have been buried for decades.Jenny

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18:39

Tulsa Race Riots & Rev. Stephenson’s Film

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2026/01/02

Send us a textIn this powerful and deeply reflective episode, I sit down with Kevin Stephenson, Reverend and President of Faith Based Films LLC, to discuss his upcoming film project, 1921, which explores the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921—one of the most devastating and long-silenced acts of racial violence in American history.Our conversation goes beyond the commonly told narrative of destruction and loss to uncover lesser-known, deeply human stories of compassion, faith, and moral courage. Reverend

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11:13

Dustin & Ashley Show: Growing Up in I-40 Corridor

TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases ·

2025/12/29

Send us a textShadows Along I-40 is a raw, unfiltered conversation rooted in lived experience.In this episode, journalist and founder of TheColdCases.com, Dustin Terry, sits down with a childhood friend to revisit the dark undercurrents that shaped their upbringing in Sequoyah County, where Interstate 40 cuts through small towns and long-held secrets.Together, they discuss the haunting case of Charity Beallis, the open secret of sex trafficking along I-40, the presence of serial predators who

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9:29

Little Miss Panasoffkee Maureen Rowan’s Daughter...

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2025/11/26

Send us a textIn this powerful episode of The Cold Cases Podcast, we sit down with Ann Patrick — the daughter of Maureen “Cookie” Rowan, recently identified as the woman long known only as “Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee.” After more than fifty years without answers, Ann opens up about what this discovery means to her family, the pain of growing up without the truth, and the urgent need for information as the investigation enters a new chapter.Ann shares personal memories, emotional reflections, and a

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11:12

Family of Arash Nikoonejad Seek Justice for 2019...

TheColdCases.com Podcast | True Crime & Cold Cases ·

2025/11/11

Send us a textIn this powerful episode of The Cold Cases Podcast, host Dustin Terry sits down with Zahra Abyazenjad, the mother of Arash Nikoonejad, a 27-year-old Gainesville man whose life was tragically cut short in November 2019.Arash was found dead inside his apartment, the victim of a violent confrontation that left the Gainesville community shaken. His death — a heartbreaking mix of assault, gunfire, and unanswered questions — sparked a years-long search for justice and ignited his mother’s

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