Crime Stories with Nancy Grace - Introducing "Zone 7 with Sheryl McCollum"

Episode Date: December 15, 2022

Work a cold case alongside investigator Sheryl “Mac” McCollum, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute. Every week, Sheryl dives into her cold case files alongside accomplished guests to look for clues into unsolved murders, missing people, and more. This ain’t just a podcast but a war room. Sheryl opens her cold case files, her heart and her little black book! You will quickly realize Zone 7 is not a place but a lifestyle! iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-zone-7-with-sheryl-mccollu-106023288/ Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zone-7-with-sheryl-mccollum/id1660041219 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/39AxkVOTQ9HjcNqykeJHX4 Stitcher/Simplecast: https://www.stitcher.com/show/1048440 Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/podcast/zone-7-with-sheryl-mccollum/PC:1001048440 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/60846f0d-334a-4a97-8105-78c07d29aecd/zone-7-with-sheryl-mccollumSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an iHeart Podcast. Nancy Grace here. Big news. Brand new cold case podcast, Zone 7 with Cheryl McCollum. I'm Cheryl McCollum. Now, this ain't just any old podcast, honey. As a crime scene investigator with over 40 years experience in the criminal justice system, I started my career in the trenches. And honey, I've stayed there. I've worked every facet of the criminal justice system. I started my career in the trenches and honey, I've stayed there. So I've worked every facet of the criminal justice system, police, courts, and corrections. I've worked with law enforcement and victims of crime and criminals to solve cold cases and I have genuinely befriended them all. Well, not all of them, but most of them. As a working CSI, I'm not a first responder.

I'm a last responder. I'm going to be bringing you into the depths of these cases with me. We're going to talk to family members. Tammy was the girliest of the three of us. Tammy was the dancer. She was, you know, tiny and petite and just cute. And she had great tone and she just excelled at everything she did and danced. That was her thing. She loved it. And she had a ton of friends. She did. The thing about me and Tammy that was very different is I was always very, I had a lot of common sense. I had a lot of street smarts.

Tammy wasn't. Tammy was very spontaneous. Tammy was very in the moment. And it's like, this is great. This feels good. Let's just do this. I'm not going to think about what happens next. Detectives and prosecutors on these cases.

She was stabbed at least 130 times. And at some point in time, a car ran over her. We know that. There was probably other things at place. As far as her injuries are concerned, it would have had to have been there before I had knowledge of it. Excessiveness of just brutality of

what happened to her is more than just a dumped body that we sometimes see. The last place she's noticed, she's walking down the road in Savannah. Her body is discovered the next morning. I will get you. Science will get you. My bread and butter is interviews and interrogation.

And all I need is just a little bit. The suspect's going to be done. I mean, there's no way. Unless they're dead, I'm coming for you. And I'm going to be bringing in some special guests from my own Zone 7. A group of professionals that I have called on for years to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't. I'm talking about these people because we started a podcast to help find perpetrators,

not just tell stories. That's right. I want you to help me actually solve these cases, many of which have been cold for decades. You get to work a cold case. Listen to Zone 7 with Cheryl McCollum now on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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