The Cold File

The case is closed. The truth isn't. Unsolved. Unexplained. Unredacted. Open the file.

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In 1998, Litvinenko stood in front of cameras with FSB colleagues and accused their own agency of ordering a murder. He was arrested. Tried twice. Acquitted twice. The charges kept changing. 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #Litvinenko #TrueCrime

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@HorrifyingHist1 Whole families. No trace. These are the cases where the official version runs out of road fastest.

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@truecrimegarage The cases that stay open the longest are always the ones where the official explanation raises more questions than it answers.

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File #011 is open.
The poison had never been used as a weapon before.
It contaminated 40 locations across London.
A British inquiry concluded the murder was "probably approved" by Putin.
Probably.
https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4
#TrueCrime #ColdCase #Litvinenko

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The only nuclear weapon ever used on British soil. A cup of tea. And a trail that leads straight to the Kremlin. Tomorrow on The Cold File.

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The Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel was refurbished after Litvinenko's poisoning. Contaminated materials stripped out. Replaced. The hotel kept running. 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #Litvinenko #TrueCrime

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They used a poison so rare it had never been weaponized before. It contaminated 40 locations across London. The killers were back in Moscow before he was dead. File #011 opens Wednesday.

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File #010 — Part 2 is open.
The Vatican. The P2 lodge. The Sicilian Mafia.
Five defendants. All acquitted.
The briefcase he carried out of Milan was never found.
Nobody ever looked very hard.
https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4
#RobertoCalvi #TrueCrime #ColdCase

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Blackfriars Bridge. In Italian: Ponte dei Frati Neri. Members of the P2 Masonic lodge called themselves i frati neri. Some investigators believe the location was a signature. 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #RobertoCalvi #TrueCrime

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File #010 is open. God's Banker. Bricks in his pockets. Cash in his jacket. A verdict of suicide that the evidence never supported. 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #RobertoCalvi #TrueCrime #ColdCase

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File #010 is open.
God's Banker. Found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge with bricks in his pockets.
The first verdict: suicide.
The exhumation: neck injuries inconsistent with hanging.
Nobody has ever been convicted.
https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4
#RobertoCalvi #TrueCrime #ColdCase

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His name was Roberto Calvi. They found him under Blackfriars Bridge. The inquest said suicide. It was wrong. Tomorrow on The Cold File

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A murder trial. Five defendants. Prosecutors asked for life sentences. The jury deliberated for a day and a half. All acquitted. Nobody has ever been convicted of Roberto Calvi's death. 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #RobertoCalvi #TrueCrime

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June is coming. New files. Darker truths. Stay close.

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File #009 — Part 2 is open. 36 judges. Life sentences confirmed. ECHR appeal rejected. The man who led police to the body returned to the house where she died and said: "It was me. I should still be in there." 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #Avetrana #TrueCrime #ColdCase

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File #009 — Part 2 is open.
36 judges confirmed the convictions. The ECHR rejected the appeal. The case is legally closed.
The man who led police to the body still says it was only him.
He cannot be retried.
https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4
#TrueCrime #ColdCase #Avetrana

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A florist said he saw two women force Sarah into a car. Then he said he wasn't sure. Then he said maybe he dreamed it. The court found him credible. Two women are serving life. 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #Avetrana #TrueCrime #ColdCase

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File #009 is open. Sarah's uncle confessed. Led police to the body. Then retracted. Then accused his daughter. Then retracted again. Two women are serving life sentences. He still says it was only him. 🔗 https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4 #Avetrana #TrueCrime #ColdCase

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File #009 is open.
A 15-year-old girl left for her cousin's house in a small Italian town. She never arrived.
42 days later, her uncle led police to her body in a well. Then he took it back.
https://t.co/3lU8CHhDr4
#TrueCrime #ColdCase #Avetrana

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A confession live on Italian national TV. She didn't know the cameras were still rolling. Tomorrow on The Cold File.