REOPENED: Cold Ashes
4/16/202637 min
A house fire claims the lives of a family in rural Oklahoma, and foul play is suspected. Two teenage girls were not found among the charred rubble, and one of their mothers began a decades-long crusade to find out what had happened.
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First 90 secondsPaula Burrows· Host0:00
This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.
Lorene Bible· Guest0:07
[instrumental music] Laura was always the one that put up our tree. Laura loved Christmas. That year, she claimed it was the best one she'd done to date. January come, and most people take down their tree, we decided we were gonna leave the tree up till Laura come home. And then you find out when your child has disappeared off the face of the earth, it's like she was never here. I said, "I'm one of these that I'm gonna find her, no matter what I have to do to find her, whether she be alive or whether she be dead, but she's coming home. So you can help us, or you can get back."
Paula Burrows· Host0:45
There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America. Each one is a cold case. Only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories. [dramatic music] It's December 30th, 1999, in Welch, Oklahoma, and Lorene Bible is waiting for her children to arrive at her workplace in Vinita at 9:00 AM so they can pick up their dad at his job and go to