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Tonight’s “Cold Case” may sound familiar…

If the plot summary for tonight’s episode of Cold Case on CBS sounds familiar…

When a mailman is found dead in his home, several bags of undelivered mail are discovered, including a letter postmarked 31 years ago and is now a major piece of evidence in the 1975 case involving a missing girl.

… it’s because there was a similar, real life incident (minus the ‘major piece of evidence’ part) just last month in Massachusetts, when a letter carrier died of a heart attack in his apartment, which was found to contain “truckloads of undelivered mail “.

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3 Responses to “Tonight’s “Cold Case” may sound familiar…”

  • 1
    Larry Johnson
    November 12th, 2006 23:25

    Just what we need–another program disparaging of letter carriers.

  • 2
    alex
    November 13th, 2006 00:09

    hmmm…so fiction really does mimick real life. They could make entire seasons of shows about mailmen (and women)

  • 3
    smarterthanu
    November 13th, 2006 10:40

    With sooo much pivoting because of no mail volume, who will be the guilty party; the provider of the pivot or the recipient of the pivot? Or both?