Cold Case Talk

Cold Case Coalition

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Together we take unsolved homicides and disappearances one step further.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Records, interviews, and field investigation help Cold Case Talk distinguish verifiable evidence from the rumors surrounding unresolved cases.

Cold Case Talk follows unresolved deaths and disappearances through records, interviews, and the practical work of the Utah Cold Case Coalition. Carol Porter and Tom Harvey keep returning to what can actually be verified.

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A neighbor's newspaper on a missing man's table, and suddenly you're auditing every assumption.

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  • to hear Tom Harvey check disappearance rumors against archived records before you buy the neat explanation
  • to sit with the gaps in a hospital death timeline instead of being handed a tidy answer
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Likely Sudden: A prominent businessman disappears in a fog of rumors, Part 3Oct 23, 2023

A careful final pass that follows Joe Santee from stolen jewelry toward a more uneasy theory of disappearance.

Cold Case Talk closes its three-part look at Joe Santee by circling back to the January 1977 disappearance and the uneasy mix of wealth, stolen goods, and suspicion around him.

Likely Sudden: A Prominent Businessman Disappears in a Fog of Rumors, Part 1Oct 23, 2023

A missing-person case that gains force from its Salt Lake City roots and careful setup.

Cold Case Talk gives Joseph Santee's disappearance a careful runway, first laying out his prominence before the mystery takes over. Carol Porter and Tom Harvey, co-founders of the Cold Case Coalition, connect his story to Salt Lake City landmarks, family history, and the quiet…

Finding AmyJul 21, 2022

Amy Westreicher's disappearance is traced through witness memory, forensic follow-up, and a lab built for cold-case work.

Cold Case Talk opens in the Utah Cold Case Coalition's DNA lab, where Kara Porter, Tom Harvey, and Jana Kay outline a wide toolkit that includes ground penetrating radar, pond draining, and accredited forensic SNP testing.

Likely Sudden: A Prominent Businessman Disappears in a Fog of Rumors, Part 2

A careful look at Joe Santee's disappearance through records, testimony, and competing claims.

Cold Case Talk treats Joe Santee's disappearance as a story shaped by rumor, media assumptions, and a family already under strain. Joe Santee, a wealthy Utah businessman, missed a breakfast date in January 1977, and the episode follows how the public story hardened around…

The Super Bowl, Then Death

A sober case review from Super Bowl XXIX night, centered on a mysterious death and the questions it leaves behind.

Cold Case Talk treats this as a sad, odd case from the Utah State Hospital on Super Bowl XXIX night, and it keeps coming back to Bahi's death without dressing it up.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    The Super Bowl, Then Death

    Hidden gem

    Investigation into the 1995 death of Bahi Davis, an 18-year-old with developmental delays who died under mysterious circumstances while confined to Utah State Hospital's forensic psychiatric ward.

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  2. 2

    Likely Sudden: A Prominent Businessman Disappears in a Fog of Rumors, Part 2

    ·37m·5 clips
  3. 3

    Likely Sudden: A prominent businessman disappears in a fog of rumors, Part 3

    Hidden gem

    Cold Case Talk's three-part Joe Santee series centers on the January 1977 disappearance of a Salt Lake City businessman who kept stolen jewelry and guns in his apartment.

    Oct 23, 2023·43m·3 clips
  4. 4

    Likely Sudden: A Prominent Businessman Disappears in a Fog of Rumors, Part 1

    Hidden gem

    Cold Case Talk revisits Joseph Santee's January 23, 1977 disappearance from a Salt Lake City apartment, where glasses, slippers, coffee cups, a gun, a Salt Lake Tribune, and small drops of blood were found.

    Oct 23, 2023·33m·2 clips
  5. 5

    Finding Amy

    Hidden gem

    Cold Case Talk's "Finding Amy" follows Amy Westreicher, who went missing from Roosevelt, Utah in 2010 after time in a remote camper.

    Jul 21, 2022·36m·2 clips
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    Stabbed on Valentine's Day

    Jan 27, 2022·29m
  7. 7

    New Developments in Aletha Jo Williams Cold Case

    Jul 9, 2021·36m
  8. 8

    Virtually Unstoppable: The Murder of Boxer LeRoy Ortiz

    Jan 16, 2021·29m
  9. 9

    Killers Who Dismember: An Expert View

    Dec 13, 2020·36m
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    Halloween 2020: Dead bodies, a Psychic, and the White Lady

    Cold Case Talk’s Halloween 2020 episode connects the Utah Cold Case Coalition’s work to members’ firsthand accounts of finding bodies and psychic tips in the Susan Cox Powell case.

    Oct 31, 2020·47m·2 clips
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    Property of Big Ed Til Death

    Oct 23, 2020·28m
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    "Property of Bid Ed Til Death"

    Oct 13, 2020·24m
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    Cami Shepherd: Undetermined

    Jul 27, 2020·39m
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    Where is Wayne Burton?

    Jun 3, 2020·26m
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    Cold Case Talk Live

    Cold Case Talk Live follows the Utah Cold Case Coalition’s volunteer work and its review of three Salt Lake City killings from 1994.

    Apr 2, 2020·1h 23m·2 clips
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    Legs Found in River Pt.2

    Feb 24, 2020·29m
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    Legs Found in River Pt. 1

    Feb 11, 2020·25m
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    Cold Case Playing Cards

    Jan 28, 2020·23m
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    Bodies in the Desert

    Jan 15, 2020·21m
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    A Tale of Two Cold Cases

    Jan 7, 2020·20m
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    Toothless Jane Doe 1979

    Dec 23, 2019·27m
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    Did Henry Lee Lucas kill Marla Scharp?

    Dec 16, 2019·38m
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    Did Henry Lee Lucas kill Marla Scharp?

    Dec 9, 2019·34m