by Ashley Flowers | Oct 22, 2025 | California Cold Case, Episode, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Darnell Smith’s family never expected him – a pastor’s son and an ambitious student – to get killed in a hail of gunfire. For a young man without even a whisper of a criminal record, no one would have expected his life to end in such a violent way at the age of...
by Ashley Flowers | Oct 8, 2025 | Episode, Washington Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
During the Yakima Police Department’s annual Christmas party, the news of 62-year-old Jerene’s murder shocked every officer and their plus ones. Jerene’s house was known for its security cameras – there were so many that you basically couldn’t enter the property...
by Ashley Flowers | Oct 1, 2025 | California Cold Case, Episode, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Twenty-two-year-old Ron Harnish was murdered on the streets of San Diego in December 2006. Almost 19 years later, the police and Ron’s own mother believe they know who’s responsible. But proving it has been a challenge, and the people they are after are as violent as...
by Ashley Flowers | Sep 17, 2025 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Our card this week is Valaine Briggs, the Ace of Spades from Utah. When 19-year-old Valaine left her Salt Lake City apartment and walked to class one spring morning in 1977, her carefully planned future was full of promise. And though she was in a time of transition...
by Ashley Flowers | Sep 10, 2025 | California Cold Case, Episode, Western U.S. Cold Cases
This week marks the 25th anniversary of Andrew “Andy” Moore’s murder. 26-year-old Andy was killed in September 2000 while sleeping in his San Diego, California, apartment. The scene left behind was confounding to detectives; the weapons are missing, odd items...
by Ashley Flowers | Sep 3, 2025 | Episode, Washington Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
On October 3, 1995, Patricia Allen was asleep on her couch when she was stabbed once so precisely that it nearly cut her heart in half. So begins one of the most mysterious homicide cases out of Yakima, Washington. With no shortage of suspects – including a woman who...
