by Ashley Flowers | Feb 4, 2026 | Episode, Iowa Cold Case, Midwest Cold Cases
In September 1980, a Holiday Inn hotel in rural Iowa became the scene of a shocking double murder: a couple was found dead in their hotel bed covered in lacerations. And the scene around them is one of the strangest and most puzzling I’ve ever come across in all my...
by Ashley Flowers | Jan 28, 2026 | Colorado Cold Case, Episode, Western U.S. Cold Cases
When a young woman was found brutally murdered in an Aurora, Colorado alleyway in October 1996, one eagle-eyed detective zeroed in on forensic evidence he hoped would lead him to her killer. But one by one, that evidence ruled out every person they thought may have...
by Ashley Flowers | Jan 21, 2026 | Episode, Iowa Cold Case, Midwest Cold Cases
Nothing causes the true crime community to stir more than a case with the open-ended question of did he? Or didn’t he? Well, except that is, when the question is did SHE? For longer than 32-year-old Thomas Mather was alive, a rural town in Iowa has been haunted by...
by Ashley Flowers | Jan 14, 2026 | Episode, Northeast Cold Cases, Rhode Island Cold Case
A late-night fire in a Rhode Island cemetery led to the discovery of the body of Shad Gandy Kaydea, a young father and aspiring rapper who was strangled, then set on fire. As detectives peeled back the layers of Shad’s life, they uncovered volatile family tensions, a...
by Ashley Flowers | Jan 7, 2026 | Episode, Florida Cold Case, Southern U.S. Cold Cases
For 50 years, Theresa Dusevitch’s case was intrinsically tied to Debra Espey’s murder. Both women were 19 years old when they were killed back in 1973, just eight months apart. There were other similarities, too: Both women were found nude from the waist down, their...
