About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "Blamed on Bundy | Reckoning | 6" from Cold covers the courtroom reckoning between Heidi Holmberg and Tori Riddle and their father, Tom Jackson, decades after they suffered abuse at his hands. As this finale opens, the two women finally face Jackson in court and take back a measure of power that was taken from them years earlier.
Even as a judge hands down punishment, the story does not end there. A new accuser comes forward, and her account of an encounter with a former East Layton police officer complicates the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Baird. The episode then shifts back to Nancy's son, Brant Baird, who has spent the series searching for answers about his missing mother. Inside Nancy's cedar chest, tucked away and seemingly overlooked, Brant finds a detail that functions as a genuine epiphany in the case, reframing what the family thought they knew.
The episode closes out the season by weaving together the personal reckoning of Jackson's victims with the unresolved mystery of Nancy Baird's disappearance, suggesting that these threads were never as separate as they first appeared.
Hosts and release
Dave Cawley hosts Cold, a narrative investigative podcast produced by KSL Podcasts that spends each season on a single unsolved disappearance. This episode runs 74 minutes and was released on October 21, 2026, available on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.
