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  • It was a cold December night that Rhonda Hinson spent celebrating at an office Christmas party… to everyone's surprise it would be the last night Rhonda would spend alive.

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    Additional Resources:

    https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Rhonda_Hinson

    https://the-record-newspaper.tumblr.com/post/185223579170/the-killing-of-rhonda-hinson-part-10

    https://thewilkesrecord.com/the-killing-of-rhonda-hinson-an-unexpected-informant-p7336-149.htm

    https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/loved-ones-hoping-resolution-december-1981-murder-north-carolina-teen-n1302167

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  • On February 8, 2022, a 50 year old triple homicide cold case in Boone, North Carolina is finally solved. 

    https://www.wataugademocrat.com/news/local/local-triple-homicide-case-solved-after-50-years/article_d9e9302b-b771-5bf3-bf30-11b161257c89.html

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  • When the well known fire chief of a small mountain community goes missing in the early 2000’s... no one suspected how many twisted pieces his story would hold.

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    https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_1kaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XCYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3036%2C4722885

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    https://www.blueridgenow.com/article/NC/20100206/News/606057412/HT

    https://www.goupstate.com/article/NC/20040406/News/605156866/SJ/

    https://www.blueridgenow.com/news/20061119/why-did-she-do-it

    https://www.etowahhorseshoefire.com/

  • Some say you can find a woman looking for her daughter near a bridge up an old mountain in Western North Carolina but others say the woman finds you…

    This episode's cold brew is sponsored by Maple The Sweet Spot in Micaville, NC.

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    https://ashevilleterrors.com/helens-bridge/

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/helen-s-bridge

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL3UHLzSqbo

    https://ashevillehistoricinns.wordpress.com/2017/09/02/murder-at-the-battery-park/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Clevenger

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  • Eight years ago Faith Hedgepeth's body was found beaten and bloodied in an off campus apartment near UNC Chapel Hill. Her killer has never been charged. 

    This episode's cold brew is sponsored by PBR's Hard Coffee!  

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    https://www.ncsbi.gov/Divisions/Legal/Cold-Cases/Faith-Hedgepeth.aspx http://www.justiceforfaith.com/911transcript.html https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article217946025.html#:~:text=Hedgepeth%20was%20found%20beaten%20to,renamed%20Preserve%20at%20the%20Park. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1283962-hedgepeth-case-files.html https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/ao8eeb/faith_hedgepeththe_truth_lies_with_karena/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_Hedgepeth_homicide#cite_note-N&O_documents_release_story-6 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pursuit/id1474686521 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NwNpXy9-zI

  • It was a cold winter day in December of 1831 when a young wife, Frankie Silver announced that her husband never returned home after leaving the night before… or at least that’s what she claimed.

    This episode's cold brew is sponsored by Appalachian Java in Burnsville, NC.

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    Additional Resources:

    https://www.folkstreams.net/film-detail.php?id=96

    https://murderpedia.org/female.S/s/silver-frankie.htm

    http://www.executedtoday.com/2012/07/12/1833-frankie-silver/

    https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/silver-frankie

    https://blueridgecountry.com/archive/favorites/frankie-and-charlie-silver/

    https://files.nc.gov/dncr-moh/frankiesilver.pdf

  • A Roman Catholic Church Priest was found murdered and robbed in a small town community in 1974. Little did they know then but that would be the beginning of one man’s three month nationwide crime spree.

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    Additional Resources

    https://www.journalpatriot.com/news/priest-s-murder-started-spree-45-years-ago/article_4a372856-4723-11e9-87c2-b3bc0abd1580.html#tncms-source=block-contextual-fallback

    https://www.journalpatriot.com/news/roberts-crimes-across-nation-began-in-wilkes-45-years-ago/article_c9a65466-4ca2-11e9-b77c-17744e160ccc.html

    https://www.journalpatriot.com/st-john-s-church-site/image_80a41950-4721-11e9-879b-67184f8e6804.html

  • For 30 years, a man claimed to be a priest. He performed baptisms and took confession. Every time he ran into trouble, Father Ryan would move on to another small Midwestern town and start his scheme all over again. Followers who once worshiped him, now accuse him of exploitation, fraud and abuse. In season one of Smoke Screen, join Alex Schuman as he unravels this con and gets answers from this white-collar criminal himself.

  • In 1990 a 41 year old, dog trainer and mother of two left her home one night for the last time. Her body was discovered five months later but her killer has never been found.

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    Additional Resources

    https://www.greensboro.com/body-is-missing-alamance-woman/article_2ab5e925-8a8a-57a6-88d4-44a47793f510.html

    https://www.greensboro.com/scientific-advances-may-help-find-killer-sadness-and-frustration-have-marked-the-eight-years-since/article_50bfcad2-a258-5a0f-9275-db7f8827ee1b.html

    https://www.greensboro.com/news/general_assignment/who-killed-pamela-hoy/article_e2e0506b-ab9d-56c5-b7a3-863f15493168.html

    https://www.villageofalamance.com/

    https://www.ncsbi.gov/Divisions/Legal/Cold-Cases/Pamela-Mitchell-Hoy.aspx

    https://www.guilfordcountync.gov/our-county/sheriff-s-office/divisions/special-operations/major-crimes/unsolved-deaths

  • On this episode, I share the tragic story of a young high school athlete whose death was initially ruled an accident but many believe the true cause of death has been covered up by multiple parties involved.

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    Petition 

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    Additional Resources

    https://www.scribd.com/document/181050020/Lowndes-County-Incident-Report-pdf#fullscreen&from_embed

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6023692/

    http://valdosta.sgaonline.com/2010vdt/pdfs/kendrick-johnson.pdf

    http://valdosta.sgaonline.com/2010vdt/pdfs/KJohnson_second_autopsy.pdf

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/kendrick-johnson

    https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/ebony-sued-by-second-family-accuses-magazine-of-defamation-in/article_de6bc0d4-d7f3-11e4-a84a-33867444e1a0.html

    https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/archives/kendrick-s-final-walk/article_14b87e1a-bf73-5d56-9885-e9fae70f076a.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kendrick_Johnson

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  • Five known victims, one unknown killer. On this episode I'll be discussing the Honolulu Strangler.  

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    https://books.google.com/books?id=pwL505R0_zcC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=Vicki+Gail+Purdy&source=bl&ots=aU7qt9pnRT&sig=ACfU3U1lsmNbhNyafNLDVqtivFkGVs5klw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjqxpLu7dfpAhVIJDQIHcG7B_0Q6AEwEHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Vicki%20Gail%20Purdy&f=false

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honolulu_Strangler

    https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/breaking-homicide/full-episodes/the-honolulu-strangler?

    https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/04/17/years-ago-her-murder-gripped-oahu-start-investigation-went-astray-2/

    https://www.khon2.com/local-news/mother-pleads-for-help-decades-after-daughters-body-found-murdered-in-kunia/

  • Zebb Quinn was last seen on January 2, 2000. Recent developments prove that his dissapearance might in fact, be a homicide. 

    This episode's cold brew is sponsored by Appalachian Java in Burnsville, NC. 

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    Additional Resources:

    https://amp.citizen-times.com/amp/423375002

    https://medium.com/a-murder-runs-through-it/zebb-quinn-70431c42c69b

    https://wlos.com/news/local/a-timeline-in-the-disappearance-of-zebb-quinn

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Zebb_Quinn

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristie_Schoen

  • On this very first episode, I am sharing with you the story of the Durham Family Murders from 1972 in a small town in western NC.

    This episode's cold brew is sponsored by Appalachian Java in Burnsville, NC.

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    https://www.wataugademocrat.com/news/investigation-of-durham-family-s-slaying-continues/article_e16a2616-a983-11e4-9e07-bbfdbdd91c44.html

    https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/year-old-unsolved-triple-murder-still-haunts-law-enforcement/article_3f04e50f-a3a2-5aed-9dfb-c0118871ac34.html

    https://ididitforjodie.com/2013/12/29/overlapping-murders-presidential-edition-travels-with-cecil/

    https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/blogs/entry/30011-how-quickly-they-forget/

    https://horrorhistory.net/2020/02/03/unsolved-family-of-three-killed-in-home-their-heads-submerged-in-their-bathtub/

  • Welcome to The Cold Brew Podcast, hosted by Katelyn Brewer and fueled by cold brew coffee. Grab your coffee and join me every other week as I share these stories, case by case.  From an unsolved small town triple homicide, to an axe murdering wife, and even an unidentified serial killer that is still out there and could possibly live in my neighborhood. We’ll cover facts, theories, conspiracies and even false media nonsense. To stay up to date on new episodes follow me on social media @coldbrewcrime.  And to be sure you don’t miss future episodes please subscribe to Cold Brew: True Crime Podcast on Spotify and Apple podcast.