Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Unsolved Mysteries: Flint River Killer, Alcatraz Escape & Other Cold Cases
31 Jan 2025
Matt and Sheryl talk about various cold cases. Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46’s CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing. Sheryl's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/39AxkVOTQ9HjcNqykeJHX4 Follow me on all socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattcoxtruecrime Do you want to be a guest? Send me an email here: [email protected] Do you want a custom "con man" painting to shown up at your doorstep every month? Subscribe to my Patreon: https: //www.patreon.com/insidetruecrime Do you want a custom painting done by me? Check out my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopart Listen to my True Crime Podcasts anywhere: https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my true crime books! Shark in the Housing Pool: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851KBYCF Bent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4GC7TM It's Insanity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFYXKK8 Devil Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TH1WT5G Devil Exposed (The Abridgment): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1070682438 The Program: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0858W4G3K Bailout: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bailout-matthew-cox/1142275402 Dude, Where's My Hand-Grenade?: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNFHBDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1678623676&sr=1-1 Checkout my disturbingly twisted satiric novel! Stranger Danger: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSWQP3WX If you would like to support me directly, I accept donations here: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69 Cashapp: $coxcon69 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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And they start talking about, we're going to escape. And he's like, look, I was a scuba diver in the Navy. Y'all don't set a chance with these tides. They're too rough. The water's too cold. And at Alcatraz, the one benefit they were given was hot showers. Other prisons, you might have to take a cold shower, but not Alcatraz, because they didn't want them to get acclimated to cold water.
So he's sitting there telling them, look, if you do this, You're going to have to leave on this side of the island at this time of day when the tide is in this predicament because it'll actually push you toward Angel Island. And that's going to be your best benefit.
So listen, Matt, it's the only case in history that I can find where a serial killer becomes a true victim of crime and then he reaches out to law enforcement for help. Because the detective that originally arrested him for his murders, he asked when she was still missing, can you find her? He said, you caught me after 25 years. Can you find my daughter? What?
Exactly. You couldn't even...
come up with it like this sounds so insane yes it it's almost fake we're at lunch one day and he looks at me and he says hey do you mind if i give your kids some advice and i said of course not you know please so he looks at my daughter who's 10 and he says never
Hey, this is Matt Cox, and I am here with Cheryl McCollum. She goes by Mac. She's in law enforcement. She was on CSI Atlanta. She is involved in cold cases. And we're going to talk about some cold cases and just some and basically her background. So check out the check out the interview. Where were you born?
I was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Grew up in Fulton County my entire life. Even went to college in downtown Atlanta at Georgia State. Still work in Fulton County. So I'm right here, native.
And how did you, so what got you interested in law enforcement? Wait a minute. Was it your mom? Yes. Okay.
No doubt. My mother could tell a story that would just stop you dead in your tracks. And she was a tremendous, gifted storyteller. And she knew a ton of history. She was a history teacher. So she would craft it in a way that you would just be on the edge of your seat. Well, we used to take long car trips.
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