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Joyce Sapp, 67; Bryan Herrera, 16; and Laurance Webb, 32—three Miami residents whose lives were stolen in brutal, unsolved homicides. Cold Case Files: Miami follows award‑winning radio host and City of Miami Police reserve officer Enrique Santos as he partners with the department’s Cold Case Homicide Unit, determined family members, and the advocates who spend their lives fighting for justice for the victims who can no longer fight for themselves.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Enrique Santos pairs clear investigative questions with family testimony that keeps Miami homicide cases grounded in lives, relationships, and unresolved loss.
Cold Case Files: Miami moves between case narratives and conversations about the work surrounding homicide investigations. Enrique Santos asks direct, orderly questions, giving Detective Zachary Scott room to explain how DNA databases linked three South Florida killings after…
A brother remembers school pickups and chicken nuggets; you meet his sister beyond the case file.
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Tangela Sears links community advocacy to the lasting physical and emotional cost of grief.
Tangela Sears brings Cold Case Files: Miami down to the neighborhood level, focusing on what families face after a loss and what it takes to keep asking for answers.
Joyce Sapp's family story unfolds through migration, memory, and the neighborhood changes that shaped Liberty City.
Joyce Sapp's family history opens with Walter and Frankie Mae Sapp carrying their young daughter from Northern Florida to Miami, into a city marked by segregation but also by the pull of opportunity.
A father's grief meets the next investigative lead as an assault case becomes a homicide.
Laurence Webb's death changes the shape of the case, moving it from an assault investigation into homicide, and the episode keeps that turn close to the people left with its consequences.
A tender portrait of Brian's shy, bright life set against violence his family did not know surrounded them.
The episode centers on Brian, a 16-year-old straight-A student whose family moved into an affordable apartment in a gated, newer building that appeared safe. Its strongest thread is the distance between that everyday hope and the danger surrounding it.
A steady Cold Case Files Miami piece about emergency work, procedure, and the judgment behind protecting life.
Cold Case Files Miami works best when it treats emergency work as a matter of judgment, with real pressure behind every choice to protect life or property.
A quick arrest and a personal lens keep El Tiger's story centered on the man, not just the case.
Cold Case Files: Miami feels distinct from the rest of the season because the case moves fast: an arrest follows quickly, and security camera footage of the shooting is already part of the picture.
A patient cold-case interview that follows a DNA hit from testing to identification.
This episode follows Detective Zachary Scott as he revisits three South Florida murders that stayed open until later DNA testing linked them. It works best when it moves through the grant-funded testing, the database upload, and the eventual identification of Roberto Fernandez,…
A steady account of grief, remembrance, and the work of turning loss into support.
The episode follows the origin of Bleeding Blue, a nonprofit started by a man and his brother after a federal officer from Miami-Dade Police Department was shot and killed in the line of duty.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
CBC's true crime feed tracing Cleo's case into cold cases across its investigative podcast network.
A former cop's DNA, a dropped case, unreliable memories.
Cold Case Files: Miami centers on the 2015 killing of 17-year-old Noricia Talibert in Florida City, where Detective Zabir Khan says shots fired from a passing vehicle turned a car ride into a homicide.
Host Enrique Santos interviews Miami-Dade homicide detective Danny Morales about his career transition from pharmacy to law enforcement, the emotional challenges of investigating deaths including infants, and his co-founding of the nonprofit Bleeding Blue to support officer mental health and families.
This episode investigates the 2024 murder of Cuban reggaeton artist El Tiger, detailing the discovery of his body in a SUV near a Miami hospital, the police investigation led by Chief Manny Morales, and the security footage that identified suspect Damian Valdez Galloso.
This episode of Cold Case Files: Miami features Detective Zachary Scott discussing the investigation into the murders of Kimberly Dietz-Livesey, Sia Dimas, and Jessica Good, which were linked to Brazilian serial killer Roberto Wagner Fernandes.
Enrique Santos opens Cold Case Files Miami with Michelle Hernandez, a licensed mental health counselor and psychotherapist who spent nearly a decade at Christy House in Miami treating children with severe trauma.
Enrique Santos interviews Tangela Sears, founder of Florida Parents of Murdered Children, about supporting families after killings and cold cases in Miami-Dade County.
Cold Case Files: Miami examines the 2017 death of 66-year-old Joyce Francia Sapp in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood.
On July 29, 2013, Miami police found 32-year-old club promoter Laurence Webb shot inside a black BMW in Liberty City.
Annabelle Herrera explains why Miami neighbors stayed silent after Brian's murder despite hearing the gunshot.