Cold Case Files

We had now a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of this person.

The reward helps attract national attention, and in 2006, Cold Case Files, which was looking to focus on an unsolved murder, picks up Nicole's case.

We were approached to see if we would be willing to actually have them air the Nicole Smith homicide, Betty Brown rape case on an episode of Cold Case Files, and we felt, "We gotta do this."

One of the things that they wanted to do was actually show us working, you know, working the case as tips came in.

Okay.

I ain't killed nobody.

Or the, or the, or the rape of another young girl in East Point-

Point-The Cold Case Files crew and the investigators watch as Stephen Burris submits a DNA sample.

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[tense music] From A&E, this is Cold Case Files: The Podcast.

On the evening of August 15th, 1970, in the dusty town of Sedalia, Missouri, Helen Gallaher is worried.

Her daughter-in-law, Barbara Jean Gallaher, is not picking up her phone.

And when I saw that picture, I said, "Thank God I did what I did.

Thank God."

Cold Case Files is hosted by Marissa Pinson, produced by Geoff Duray, and distributed by PodcastOne.

The Cold Case Files TV series was produced by Curtis Productions and hosted by Bill Curtis.

And I wish I could work all these cases.

I get probably one a day, uh, more when Cold Case Files or Dateline or somebody, America's Most Wanted runs with me on it.

The justice for everybody.

Justice for everybody.