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What is the opening premise of the episode and why does it warn about murder and child abuse?
This story includes discussion of murder and child sex abuse. Please keep that in mind when choosing where, when, and with whom you listen. You unlock your phone, go to your podcast app and start an episode. You hear a story about a woman named Nancy who disappeared.
My mom and Nancy were friends in school.
A woman who's never been found.
So my mama always talked about how her best friend was taking my Ted Bundy.
An unsolved crime from your own hometown.
Small town East Layton. Everybody, I think, knew everybody.
On the very street where you once lived.
When I heard the podcast I was like, you know, it talked about Nancy and Ted Bundy.
But as you listen, you hear the host of the podcast introduce someone.
His interview was Exactly an hour into the podcast.
A former cop.
He was a good looking guy and I don't think he got told no.
With a troubled past.
When he did, he you saw his angry side.
The shock hits hard. Because this guy, he's not just a cop. He's your dad.
Like, do you think he could have really taken this woman?
And you know he's done terrible things.
We know he's a child molester. But this is a whole other level.
That's the voice of Heidi Holmberg. And this really happened to her. The podcast she was listening to was this one. My name is Dave Cawley. I'm an investigative journalist based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and for the better part of a decade, I've investigated and reported on stories of missing and murdered women, cases that have gone cold. In 2023, I traveled to Idaho to interview Tom Jackson, the last surviving member of the police force in East Leighton, Utah, that first investigated the unsolved disappearance of Nancy Perry Baird in 1975. Case blamed on serial killer Ted Bundy.
You remember how Bundy would draw some of the women in
was with a a badge. They dismissed it as a Ted Bundy case.
Bundy was in Utah during the summer of 75, but a few years ago I learned Bundy didn't kill Nancy Baird. He was 100 miles away on the day it happened. So I wanted to know who else Tom Jackson might have considered a suspect, back when he was a cop working the case.
I've gone through a hundred thousand things m since then what could have happened, who could have done it. And boy, whoever did it. He's another Bundy.
And I was like
Wow. I wouldn't doubt if I was a a suspect and all that. That's okay with me.
I had no idea that by interviewing Tom and publishing what he said, I was kicking a hornet's nest.
I was angry at you at first. Like on my side looked like he was being made more of a resource than a monster.
The story you are about to hear is a deep dive into the Nancy Baird cold case. But it's also about how this one interview set events in motion.
Hello? Hey.
Compelling Heidi and others in her family to confront a dark shadow from their past.
Yeah. Holy cow!
It's about how survivors of childhood abuse can find their voice.
Oh, I wish I I've been a good dad to you. Yeah, well, that makes two of us.
And even decades later. Take power back. This is Cold Season four, episode one. Everyone knew everyone.
Red, white, and blue bunting hung in the window of a small convenience store on the side of US Highway eighty nine. Cars whizzed past as a TV news reporter stood next to the gas pumps clutching his microphone.
Nancy Perry Baird worked at this Phoenix station in East Leighton. Worked there until Friday afternoon at 5 30 when she disappeared.
Friday, july fourth, nineteen seventy five. Independence Day.
About ten minutes before the 24-year-old divorcee was discovered missing, an East Leighton police officer saw her at work. He left and then returned at 5.30, but Nancy Baird was gone.
This reporter had the story mostly correct. Nancy was twenty-three, not twenty-four.
Police say there's been no evidence of foul play in her disappearance, there was no money taken from the cash register, and there was no sign of any struggle.
No evidence of foul play, but plenty of suspicion.
Officers report East Leighton Police Department case number seven five-zero seven three.
An East Leighton police officer was one of the last people to see Nancy Baird.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of the episode and why does it warn about murder and child abuse?
0:00–9:32
2
How did investigators initially blame Ted Bundy for Nancy Baird’s disappearance?
9:32–18:27
3
What do we learn about Nancy’s childhood, friendships, and early life in East Leighton?
18:27–27:35
4
How did Nancy disappear on July 4 1975 and what were the immediate police findings?
27:35–37:24
5
What insights did former officer Tom Jackson provide about the night of the disappearance?
37:24–47:10
6
Why was the tiny East Leighton Police Department considered incompetent or corrupt?
47:10–57:34
7
How does Nancy’s son Brant (Brandt) describe his memories and the family’s trauma?
57:34–1:07:22
8
What are the current theories about who abducted Nancy and why does the host dismiss Ted Bundy?
1:07:22–1:17:31