The Colorado Springs Gazette
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On Valentine's Day 1985, Cassandra Rundle and her two children were found slaughtered in their Colorado Springs home. For weeks, police tracked down men who responded to a personal ad she left in the back pages of a newspaper, looking for love. 35 years later, her killer remains free. This is Colorado Cold Case Season 4: The Lonely Hearts Murders. Reported and hosted by Lance Benzel and Olivia Prentzel Produced by Katie Klann
A cycling shoe sits upright on a dirt road; you already dread what comes next.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Detective Dick Reisler's hardest call gives this cold-case episode its human weight.
The episode turns on a phone call that Reisler never forgot. Before the Lonely Hearts murders put him in a larger spotlight, he was the officer who had to tell Jimmy Shaday's parents that their son had died beneath his own pickup.
A cold case review becomes a human portrait of fear, grief, and unfinished questions.
Two years after Tim Watkins was shot and buried beside his favorite trail, Colorado Cold Case returns to the life his killing disrupted. Ginger Chase Watkins has not gone back to Limbaugh Canyon since climbing into the hole where his body was hidden, and the place that once held…
A newspaper-era love ad opens into a restrained, unsettling cold case.
Colorado Cold Case turns Cassandra Rundle's lonely-hearts ads into the hinge of a murder story, following how a search for one good man ended in tragedy.
A careful cold-case chapter shaped by childhood memory and one missing boot.
Episode 3, Melanie's Purple Galoshes, follows the murder of Melanie Sturm, her mother, and her brother through Jeannie Sheeks, a new fifth grader trying to settle in. The missing rain boot is the detail that keeps pulling the story back toward childhood.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
A former cop's DNA, a dropped case, unreliable memories.
This episode investigates the 1985 murders of Cassandra Rundle and her two children in Colorado Springs, exploring how her personal ads for love became an early focus for police.
Colorado Cold Case: Episode 4 follows Detective Dick Reisler's years investigating the 1985 murders of Cassandra Rundle and her children, Dietrich and Melanie Sturm, in Colorado Springs.
Colorado Cold Case: Episode 6 follows Ginger Chase Watkins and Tim Watkins’s friends and family as they live with an unsolved murder at Limbaugh Canyon two years later.
Colorado Cold Case compares Mike Rust's 2009 disappearance with Tim Watkins's 2017 killing through shared Colorado cycling connections and unresolved evidence.
Colorado Cold Case examines Glenn Martin's July 3, 2015 death after a high-caliber bullet crossed the Rampart Range and struck him at a family campsite.
Tim Watkins's single Pearl Izumi shoe convinced Ginger Chase Watkins that he was somewhere, unable to walk away.
Colorado Cold Case hosts Stephen Hayward and Caitlin Durbin examine competing theories about Thomas Kinslow's 2005 killing and Gabriel Gonzalez's role.
Colorado Cold Case's “A Suspect Emerges” follows the investigation into 20-year-old Tommy Kinslow's 2005 killing in Colorado Springs.