April 2017, Police were called to an abandoned home on 505 PeachTree Street. The caller reported a strong foul oder coming from the property.

Angela Whalen Hudson walked her two children to the bus stop in Pelham, North Carolina, on September 20th, 2001. After this, she was never seen again. Angela's aunt showed up at the house for the dinner they had planned later that day but when she arrived, she discovered a half-cooked lunch and Angela had vanished.

On a hot Saturday afternoon in September 1964, a military police officer dropped off his two young stepsons outside the Broadway Theater on Hay Street in downtown Fayetteville. As storms from a waning hurricane rumbled over Fayetteville, the stepfather said he went to the theatre after dark and waited for the boys to emerge. The never came out. In fact, they were never seen again.

On December 8, 1987, Leesburg Police Officers were notified of skeletal remains of a young woman found off Gant Lane near Sycolin Road. The discovery triggered a mystery that Loudoun County Sheriff's deputies continue to struggle with to this day.

A smiling 14-year-old girl from Ashburn leaves to a friend's house two days before starting her freshman year of high school and never returns home. Eleven days later her body was discovered near Redskins Park. The circumstances around her disappearance still remain unclear 20 years later.

The partially-clothed body of 20-year-old Veronica Hepworth was discovered in the early hours of February 25, 1982, along a driveway in Loudoun County—50 miles from where she was last seen alive. Decades later, Veronica's case puzzles both law enforcement and the public with numerous questions which none have been answered.

On Sunday, June 6, 1993, an unimaginable tragedy occurred in the small town of Windsor, North Carolina. Six employees of the local Be-Lo grocery store were closing up the place for the day when an unknown man appeared with a gun and ordered them to the butcher room in the back. When the man left the store, three of the six employees were dead, two severely injured and one completely unharmed. Still, despite half of the victims surviving the attack and giving a description of the person responsible, to this day, his identity remains a mystery. For all of the source material, photos and full police scanner audio from this episode visit www.whysocoldpodcast.com

In December of 1985, a 28-year-old nurse named Debbie Wolfe left her shift at the hospital and headed back to her home—a small isolated cabin in the woods just outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina. The next day, Debbie did not show up for work nor answered her phone, which was highly unusual for her. Soon after, a search for the missing woman was launched. The end result of that search still baffles the public almost 40 years later. For source material, photos and discussion boards visit www.whysocoldpodcast.com

More than 40 years ago, in 1981, 23-year-old Olivia Thorndike was found dead inside her own home. Straight away, the police had two suspects, and it seemed like the brutal murder was going to be an open-and-shut case. For the extensive list of source material used in this episode visit www.whysocoldpodcast.com

This episode of Why So Cold? Will be different from the others.. Coming up in a few future episodes I will be covering several LOCAL cold cases.. Ones that took place where Watts Creative Studios are located in Bedford Virginia.. During the last few years I’ve had the opportunity to work closely with the Town of Bedford Police department and The Bedford County Sheriffs department on several video productions and live streams.. During this time we’ve chatted about cold cases and how I can help keep these cases alive through Why So Cold….so before those cases are released I wanted our listeners to get to know some of the investigators and officers behind the scenes..and why cold cases are so important to them.. In this episode I talk with Ricky Baldwin who is a lieutenant with the Bedford County Sheriffs department.. and heads up Criminal Investigations.. www.whysocoldpodcast.com

In 1996, two young women and their dog set out on a hiking trip in the beautiful Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. But as they did not return home at the agreed time, a worried family member contacted the Park Rangers, who soon discovered the couple's bodies at a tranquil campsite. Straight away, it was clear the two had not died due to a freak accident or wild animal attack but in the hands of another human being. For the source material and episode information visit www.whysocoldpodcast.com

Skeletal remains of a young woman were discovered off Mountain Road in Haymarket, Prince William County, Virginia, on February 12th, 1982. Due to the advanced level of decomposition, for over 30 years, investigators were unable to tell who this person was or where she came from. Meanwhile, the family members of Cynthia Joan Gastelle hoped that their missing loved one would return home one day—unaware that she had already been found decades earlier. Source material: www.whysocoldpodcast.com

Almost 40 years ago, on August 17th, 1984, a young couple was found brutally murdered in the Henrico County woods, just behind King's Crossing Apartments. Donna Hall and Michael Margaret had told their families they were going on a camping trip, but they were no further than .25 miles from Donna's home. Even though heavy rains had already washed away most of the evidence, police did discover something that is believed to be the key too revealing the killer's identity. And yet, decades later, the case remains without answers. Source material: www.whysocoldpodcast.com

Between the years of 1996 - 2014, an unusually high number of women have fallen victim to disappearances and murders along the Route 29 corridor in Virginia calling the suspect the…Route 29 Stalker. This episode highlights Alicia Showalter Reynolds. For links to the source material used in this episode visit www.whysocold.com

Heidi Childs (18) & David Metzler (19)...Two Virginia Tech students were fatally shot in a Montgomery County forest in 2009, Virginia State Police are still looking for their killer(s). For links to the source material used in this episode visit www.whysocold.com

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Shortly after Ep1 of Why So Cold? was released highlighting the story of James "Slim" Walker the local news channel ran a story. Here is that story.

On April 7th, 2000 James D Walker aka "Slim" disappeared from a Food Lion parking lot in Bedford, Va. He was never heard or seen from again.

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