Cold Case Carolina

A gripping investigative series reopening forgotten unsolved cases across the Carolinas, one lead at a time.

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  1. Ep 47 Apr 21, 2026

    The Girl on Route 17

    In 1994, a teenager vanished from a coastal gas station and the file went cold within a year. A retired deputy hands me a box of evidence everyone forgot, and one detail doesn't add up.

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  2. Ep 46 Apr 14, 2026

    Three Knocks at the Marshlight Motel

    A motel clerk's death was ruled an accident, but the night manager swears he heard three knocks. I track down the only witness who ever spoke and learn why he went silent for thirty years.

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  3. Ep 45 Apr 7, 2026

    The Confession That Came Too Late

    A deathbed letter names a killer the county never charged. I read it line by line, then drive to the address it points to and find someone still living there.

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  4. Ep 44 Mar 31, 2026

    What the River Kept

    Two brothers disappeared on a fishing trip in 1981 and the case was closed as a drowning. New sonar footage from a volunteer dive team forces the sheriff to reopen a file nobody wanted touched.

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Dana Whitfield

Former courthouse reporter for the **Charleston Ledger** and the **Piedmont Sentinel**, now an independent investigator who spends her seasons chasing a single lead. I started Cold Case Carolina because the families I covered as a reporter never got an ending โ€” I wanted to give a few of them one. Based in Columbia. Records and case notes at [coldcasecarolina.fm](https://coldcasecarolina.fm).

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