Gone Cold: Philadelphia Unsolved Murders

Gone Cold: Philadelphia Unsolved Murders
CATEGORY: True Crime
Gone Cold is a true crime podcast about cold cases, from KYW Newsradio. Tom Rickert and Kristen Johanson explore unsolved murder mysteries in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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What Happened to Shelton Hayes? Philadelphia, PA, 20…On March 15th, 2018, Shelton Hayes was shot and killed in his mother's house in Northwest Philadelphia. Shelton's mother, Rhonda, was upstairs. He was 39 years old. He was a son, a brother, and a father. If you…
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What Happened to Michael Ewer? Lansdale, PA, 2005On the morning of October 20th, 2005, a man was cutting the grass around Memorial Park in Lansdale, PA. The 10-acre park has a veterans memorial wall, tennis courts, and a baseball field with a dugout. After he…
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What Happened to Jeanette Tambe? Buena Vista, New Je…On August 8, 1986, a couple drove from Philadelphia to Buena Vista, New Jersey to check on a home they were building. They pulled into the driveway, walked around the property, and found something horrible: the…
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What Happened to Publicker Jane Doe? Bensalem, PA, 1…In January of 1988 a young girl's remains were found near the old Publicker Distillery in Bucks County, PA. She was pregnant when she died. For more than 30 years, her name has remained a mystery.Bensalem Polic…
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What Happened to Melvin Dunn? Philadelphia, 2020It was the Thursday after Mother's Day. A group of teenagers on Park Avenue in Philadelphia saw something large, wrapped in blankets on the back seat of a white Pontiac.A few days earlier, Melvin Dunn's family…
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Episode 9: The Boy in the BoxIn February of 1957 the body of a young boy was found in a box in the woods near Susquehanna Road in Philadelphia. More than 60 years later, the identity of The Boy in the Box and the identity of his killer rem…
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Episode 8: JenniferJennifer Tong was taken from her Marple Township home and murdered in 1993. Her children were 11 and 14 years old, left without a mother.Jeanette Tong doesn't like to talk about the day her life changed forever…
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The Incredible Life of Pete KanePete Kane is a photojournalist at NBC10 in Philadelphia. You met him in Episode 7: Officer Cione -- he talked about what it was like living in the neighborhood where Fred Cione was murdered, and described what…
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LIVE! Crime Scenes & UpdatesKristen and Tom took Gone Cold to a live audience for the Philadelphia Podcast Festival at the end of July. Special guests Jacque Davis and Greg Yatcilla dive into what it's like to be crime scene officers for…
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Gerald Ross was Shot in a ChurchYou met Gerald Ross Jr. in Episode 7: Officer Cione. He was a police officer and homicide detective in Philadelphia in the 60s and 70s -- one of the detectives who arrived at the scene of Fred Cione's murder th…
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Episode 7: Officer CioneOn Jan. 30, 1970, Officer Frederick Cione was shot and killed on Oxford Street in North Philadelphia. He was 25 years old. Nearly 50 years later, his killing is still the only unsolved murder of a Philadelphia…
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Episode 6: EricEric Birnbaum was a beloved father, brother, and son, working as an attorney in a quiet Bucks County town.On February 11, 2009, Eric was murdered in the parking lot of his Northampton Township office. A decade…
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Presents: The Bones in a Potter's FieldDr. Erin Kimmerle digs up bodies. She's carefully picked through mass graves in Kosovo and Croatia to identify victims of war crimes. She did the same thing in Peru, where men, women, and children were executed…
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Episode 5: TomieneTomiene Jones worked the night shift at the post office. She would take her young daughter to the babysitter, and then drive to work. She'd done this many times before, and each time, she came back to pick up h…
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Episode 4: DonDon Ly was a monk, a farmer, and a police officer in Vietnam. After the war, he moved heaven and earth to make a new life for his family in America. On April 18th, 2013, he was murdered outside of his home in S…
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Presents: The Lost BoysIn July of 2017, four young men suddenly disappeared in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The search for answers took just over a week. What happened to them shocked the nation.This is a bonus episode for Gone Cold…
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Episode 3: FredIn February of 1993, Fred Winner went to the bank. He dropped off checks from his check cashing business - and he picked up $10,000 in cash to take back to his store. He did this every day. But on this particul…
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Episode 2: CarolIn June of 2013, 59 year old Carol Reiff was supposed to go to the beach with her family. She didn't show up. Her daughter Dawn has never stopped fighting to find out what happened.Gone Cold is made by Kristen…
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Episode 1: JasonIt was a chilly October night in 2004. Jason Richardson and his friend Anthony went to a bar in Upper Darby to unwind after a long week. 22-year-old Jason would never return home.Gone Cold is made by Kristen Jo…