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Hot Pursuit | Cold Cases That Need Heating Up | Part 1

·1 hr 44 min·35 clips

Hot Pursuit is built around the idea that some cases keep burning long after the first headlines cool off. Kristen introduces it as a summer true-crime collaboration with Allison from Coffee and Cases and a wider group of podcasters. The setup is simple. The series leans into the heat of the chase, summer crimes, and cold cases that still need attention. After that, the episode drops into a pursuit story. The geography matters. San Bernardino, Kern, Riverside, and Los Angeles counties all come into play. A 911 call sends police toward a suspect on the run. That call matters, but it is not the whole story. Security camera footage from inside the store shows someone walking around alone, paying for two sodas, and not looking nearly as distressed as the call might suggest. That contrast sits over the segment. Once officers get the suspect's location, the radio traffic gets urgent. A white Nissan Frontier is spotted tearing down Highway 58 and then heading onto Interstate 15. The speeds jump past 113 miles an hour. Units keep calling out positions while trying to catch up. Then the pursuit turns violent. Shots are fired from inside the truck at the deputies following behind. More than one police vehicle is hit. One officer takes shrapnel. The episode leaves the listener with the blunt truth that a chase can change shape in seconds and that the work of catching someone can become its own emergency.

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A chase-heavy true-crime hour that keeps its focus on pressure, radio traffic, and forward motion.

Hot Pursuit treats the chase itself as the point. Kristen and Allison set the summer collaboration against dispatch calls, highway movement, and the steady pull of danger, so the episode keeps moving without leaning on theatrics.

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You want a chase story that turns radio traffic into real tension.

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