A Deadly Affair / The Sting Operation

Summary

Cold Case Files

Episode: "A Deadly Affair / The Sting Operation"

Release Date: March 31, 2026
Host/Narrator: Marisa Pinson
Podcast Network: A&E / PodcastOne

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Episode Overview

In this gripping episode, Cold Case Files investigates two chilling cold cases that were ultimately solved decades after the crimes took place. The first half of the episode, "A Deadly Affair," recounts the 1982 murder of David Harmon in Olathe, Kansas—an apparent home invasion that, upon reinvestigation, reveals the dark undercurrents of a love triangle and a staged crime scene. The second story, "The Sting Operation," shifts focus to the 1977 murder of Officer Abe Pipkin in Beebe, Arkansas, and details the elaborate undercover operation that finally brought his killer to justice after a quarter-century of speculation.

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Case 1: A Deadly Affair (David Harmon Murder, Kansas, 1982)

Case Introduction & The Crime Scene

• [00:34] Narrator: Cold case detectives Bill Wall and Steve James reopen the 1982 unsolved murder of David Harmon, a bank teller found beaten to death in his home.
• [00:45] Det. Bill Wall: The crime scene lacked typical signs of a break-in or robbery.
  "It doesn't look to you as being anything even close resembling a robbery or a home invasion." ([00:45])
• Initial police efforts focus on Melinda Harmon’s (the widow) home invasion account.

Immediate Suspicions & Shifting Stories

• [01:50] Gail Bergstrand (Neighbor): Recalls Melinda’s ambiguity and uncertainty about David's fate.
  "She said, 'I think Dave is dead. I think Dave could be dead.'" ([01:50])
• [03:01] Officer J.W. Larich: Melinda claims thugs broke in searching for bank keys, assaulted her, and left her husband fatally injured.
• [04:00] Det. Joe Pruitt: Melinda described her assailants as "probably black males" based on voice alone—details that later prove questionable.
  "This bruise on her left cheek was about the size of a dime...She was able to answer our questions. She was not overly upset." ([04:00])

Doubting the Home Invasion Story

• [04:37] Det. Joe Pruitt: Questions the logic of stealing bank keys that are useless due to a time lock.
  "What would anybody accomplish by taking the keys and breaking into the bank in the middle of the night?" ([04:37])
• [05:25] Paul Morrison (Prosecutor): The implausibility of Melinda’s story becomes obvious as no attempted bank robbery occurs.

Emergence of a Suspect: Mark Mangelsdorf

• [05:47] Det. Joe Pruitt: Mark Mangelsdorf, a college student and family friend, found at the scene with wet hair—arousing suspicion due to the unusual timing.
  "It was wet, like he had taken a shower." ([05:47])
• [06:16] Det. Joe Pruitt: Letters between Melinda and Mark suggest a romantic relationship, establishing a possible motive.

Quote:

• "Some of those were signed 'Love, Melinda.' They were very personal, more so than what you would think of friends." ([06:16])

Case Goes Cold

• Family closes ranks around Melinda; she is taken out of state, and the investigation stalls due to lack of hard evidence.
• [07:22] Det. Joe Pruitt:
  "We thought from the very beginning that there was enough information to arrest both of them for David’s murder. But we never thought for one minute there was enough information to convict them."

Reopening the Case (2001) & Forensic Breakthroughs

• [07:49] Det. Bill Wall: Cold case detectives revisit evidence in 2001.
• Analysis of Melinda's nightgown reveals only minor blood on the lower portion—contradicting her “violent struggle” story.
  • "She should have had a lot more blood on. This nightgown just reaffirmed everything..." ([08:47])

Confronting the Widow

• Detectives travel to Ohio to question Melinda (now Melinda Rash).
• She changes her story significantly, telling detectives there was only one masked intruder (not two), then tries to downplay her relationship with Mark.
• [11:09] Melinda Rash: When pressed on why she invented parts of her initial story:
  "At the time, I didn’t know it was a story."

Turning on her Co-conspirator

• [12:39] Melinda Rash: Admits suspecting Mark in her heart, but hedges full admission.
  "In my heart, I knew it was him."
• [13:05] Melinda Rash: Stops short of confessing to a murder plot.

Deal-Making & Legal Wrangling

• Melinda negotiates with prosecutors, implicating Mark for a plea deal.
• [14:30] Paul Morrison:
  "Innocent people don't negotiate deals. And that kind of stuff just kills you."

The Prosecutions

• Both are indicted for murder. Mark refuses to talk. Melinda’s interrogation tape is played at trial.
• Mark takes the stand and repeatedly denies a romantic relationship.
  • [17:34] Mark Mangelsdorf:
    "I was not in love with Melinda Harmon. I did not have a romantic or sexual or physical relationship..."
• Prosecutor Morrison needles Mark for not coming clean.
  • [18:34] Morrison:
    "What's the word for someone who doesn't tell the truth? ... It starts with an L." (trying to get Mark to say "liar")

Verdicts and Sentencing

• [19:52] Jury:
  "On count one, we, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder. On count two, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder."
• Melinda’s convictions are set aside for her testimony; she pleads to second-degree murder, and then Mark also pleads guilty to second-degree murder ([21:04-21:21]).

Powerful Moment

• [22:00] John Harmon (victim’s father): Addresses his son’s killers in court:
  "You took our one and only child in a vicious act of violence. ... What a waste. What a complete waste of a human life."
• [22:45] Mark Mangelsdorf: Apologizes for his role:
  "Mr. Harmon, I can't begin to imagine the grief ... I have tried to do the right things throughout my life and especially for the last 24 years. And that's genuine."
• Both are sentenced to 10–20 years.

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Case 2: The Sting Operation (Officer Abe Pipkin, Arkansas, 1977)

Revisiting an Officer’s Murder

• [25:27] Narrator: On April 5, 1977, 71-year-old Officer Abe Pipkin is killed during a pharmacy burglary in Beebe, Arkansas.
• [26:29] Joe Pipkin (son):
  "It just didn't happen. In a small town, you know, something like that just didn't happen."
• Initial investigation yields no witnesses or viable suspects; case goes cold ([27:11]).

False Confessions and Dead Ends

• Years later, infamous serial killer Henry Lee Lucas confesses, but evidence places him in Maryland at the time of the crime ([29:18]).

A New Lead Decades Later

• [30:01] Harold Armstrong (Police Chief): Receives a call from an informant implicating a woman named Mitzi Pardue, who had inside knowledge about the murder from her then-boyfriend, Gary Evans.
• [30:48] Mitzi Pardue:
  "When they asked me to come down to the sheriff's office, I pretty much knew what it was for."
• Mitzi recounts Gary’s confession after the crime.

The Sting – Nine Years in the Making

• Police ask Mitzi to wear a wire and confront Gary Evans, but she’s too fearful at first.
• After nearly a decade, Mitzi is finally ready to cooperate; she has moved on, is married, and more confident ([36:03]).

Quote:

• [36:18] Captain J.R. Howard:
  "Her life had changed. She was married, had a good husband, kids, and she was ready to help us out."

Executing the Operation

• Mitzi’s car is wired; she visits Gary at his workplace ([38:33]).
• During a casual drive and conversation, Gary admits to the killing, though he's hesitant at first.
  • [41:41] Gary Evans (to Mitzi):
    "I just can't believe I did it either. I pulled and I hit him with a crowbar, you see?"

Quote:

• [43:59] Prosecutor Chris Raff:
  "Without that tape and without Mitzi, we would not have had one thing. That was the case against Gary Evans."

Trial & Conviction

• The jury is shown the undercover video; Gary Evans is convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 30 years ([44:27]).
• [45:21] Joe Pipkin:
  "And I prayed that we would find him and justice would be served. And it was. God answers prayers–may take a while."

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Memorable Quotes & Timestamps

• "This was a crime. When you just look at strictly the picture, it doesn't look to you as being anything even closer resembling a robbery or a home invasion."
  – Detective Bill Wall ([00:45])
• "The real thing that stuck in our mind was what would anybody accomplish by taking the keys and breaking into the bank in the middle of the night...?"
  – Detective Joe Pruitt ([04:37])
• "In my heart, I knew it was him."
  – Melinda Rash (Harmon) ([12:39])
• "Innocent people don't negotiate deals. And that kind of stuff just kills you."
  – Prosecutor Paul Morrison ([14:30])
• "I was not in love with Melinda Harmon. I did not have a romantic or sexual or physical relationship with her."
  – Mark Mangelsdorf ([17:34])
• "You took our one and only child in a vicious act of violence...What a waste. What a complete waste of a human life."
  – John Harmon ([22:00])
• "Without that tape and without Mitzi, we would not have had one thing. That was the case against Gary Evans."
  – Prosecutor Chris Raff ([43:59])
• "And I prayed that we would find him and justice would be served. And it was. God answers prayers–may take a while."
  – Joe Pipkin ([45:21])

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Key Insights & Takeaways

• Forensic Consistency: Persistent reexamination, careful forensic analysis (like the blood pattern on Melinda's nightgown), and advances in investigative techniques can turn a cold case around even after decades of dormancy.
• Change in Testimony as Evidence: Shifting stories and admissions—even if partial—played as pivotal a role as physical evidence.
• Role of Relationships: Both cases were ultimately solved thanks to personal connections (affair in Kansas, old relationship in Arkansas) and the willingness of individuals to come forward.
• Complexities of Justice: Deals with co-conspirators, plea bargains, and reluctant witnesses underscore the challenges of securing convictions in cold cases.
• Emotional Weight: The episode ends with powerful family statements at sentencing, underscoring the heavy, ongoing impact of murder on victims' loved ones.

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Segment Timestamps for Reference

• David Harmon Murder Case: [00:34–24:17]
• Officer Abe Pipkin Murder Case: [25:17–45:21]

For listeners interested in the details of cold case investigation, police procedure, and the human stories behind decades-long searches for justice, this episode provides compelling, at times harrowing, insight directly from those who lived it.

Transcript

[Narrator]

This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised. There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

Well, what do we got?

[Detective Steve James]

Let's take a look at some of these, the old Polaroids from 1982.

[Narrator]

Bill Wall and Steve James are cold case detectives with the Olathe police in Kansas. In 2001, they pick up the unsolved murder of David Harmon.

[Detective Bill Wall]

This was a crime. When you just look at strictly the picture, it doesn't look to you as being anything even closer resembling a robbery or a home invasion.

[Detective Steve James]

I think the detectives were starting to figure that out, that this has got to be a bogus story.

[Narrator]

The bogus story begins with a bump in the night.

[Gail Bergstrand]

I mean, this was the kind of a loud noise that just wakes you from a deep sleep. You sit up in the bed, just bolt upright and you just look at each other and say, what was that?

[Narrator]

It's 2:30am and Gail Bergstrand awakens to a series of thumps coming from the other side of her bedroom wall.

[Gail Bergstrand]

I told my husband, I said, I'm going to call the police. And he said, well, what are you going to tell them? That you heard thumping in our neighbor's duplex? And I said, oh, you're right, you know, I can't do that. But I said, I'm going to put my ear on the wall and if I hear one more thing, I'm calling.

[Narrator]

Bergstrand, however, hears nothing more. All's quiet until 3:30 when there's a knock on her door. It's her next door neighbor, Melinda Harmon.

[Gail Bergstrand]

She said, I think Dave is dead. I think Dave could be dead. And she didn't know that definitively.

[Narrator]

J.W. larrick is a detective with the Olathe Police Department.

[Officer J.W. Larich]

That information basically was there'd been an attack in the residence and her husband had been severely injured. So in that type of scenario, you go code three lights and sirens to the residence to get there as quickly and safely as you can. I went into the bedroom, the master bedroom, and that's when I first saw David on the bed.

[Narrator]

David Harmon is dead, his face beaten with a blunt object.

[Officer J.W. Larich]

I don't think David's mother would have recognized him as he lay there on the bed.

[Paul Morrison]

You could not tell if he was 8 or 80. You could not tell if he was a man or a woman.

[Narrator]

Paul Morrison is an assistant district attorney on the scene.

[Paul Morrison]

There was blood, brain matter slung, not spattered, but slung on the Ceiling on the walls from what was obviously a bludgeoning that had occurred.

[Narrator]

Officer Larich has a talk with Melinda Harmon.

[Officer J.W. Larich]

When I asked her what happened, she said that she was awakened by the sounds of thuds as she lay in bed next to David. She was then grabbed by the arm and pulled out of the bed and told to show them the intruders where the keys to the bank were.

[Narrator]

The bank is the patron state bank. David Harmon is a teller there.

[Officer J.W. Larich]

She said she went downstairs, showed them where the keys to the bank were, and then she was struck.

[Narrator]

The intruders blow, Melinda says, knocked her out.

[Officer J.W. Larich]

Sometime later, she woke up, and she ran next door and pounded on the door of the Bergstroms to ask for help.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

She was upset, but not overly upset. She never asked what was her husband's condition. She never said, are you really sure he's dead?

[Narrator]

Detective Joe Pruitt takes a statement from Melinda Harmon.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

She said that she was picked from the bed by her hair and led downstairs. And the two suspects, who said they were probably black males, you could tell that from their voice, demanded the keys to the bank where David was employed. This bruise on her left cheek was about the size of a dime. If she'd been knocked unconscious, she would still have been woozy. She would have been disorientated. She was able to answer our questions. She was not overly upset.

[Narrator]

Mrs. Harmon's story feels shaky. The more Pruitt looks at it, the less he likes it.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

The real thing that stuck in our mind was what would anybody accomplish by taking the keys and breaking into the bank in the middle of the night, knowing full well that there's a time lock on the vault? I mean, you get what office chairs, a check protector.

[Narrator]

That's about it.

[Paul Morrison]

For the first few hours, everybody subscribed to this home invasion story, and we spent considerable time chasing those leads down. Surveillance was set up at the bank waiting for these bad guys to show up. As the hours went by, though nobody showed up at the bank, we began to sort of assess her statement and how impractical and improbable we felt that statement was. So as the morning went into the afternoon, I think everybody felt, this story stinks.

[Narrator]

Detectives begin to take a hard look at Melinda Harmon, as well as a college student and family friend named Mark Mangelsdorf.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

Mr. Mangelsdorf? The friend of the family. His appearance there was somewhat unusual.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

Be safe, stay busy.

[Detective Steve James]

Call me if you need anything.

[Narrator]

Police at the Harman crime scene found Mangelsdorf there just hanging around.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

Officer Laric pointed out that Even though It was around five o' clock in the morning, Mr. Mangelsdorf's hair was wet. And I don't mean moist like you'd run a comb through it, a wet comb, but it was wet, like he had taken a shower. I had not taken a shower, and I didn't think that he had had time to shower either.

[Narrator]

Detectives speculate there might be something more than the friendship between Mangelsdorf and the widow Harman. Items found through a search warrant begin to support those suspicions.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

One of the things discovered was a collection of letters and greeting cards from Mrs. Harmon to Mr. Mangelsdorf. Some of those were signed, Love, Melinda. They were very personal, more so than what you would think of friends. What we found out was that there was a very close relationship between Mrs. Harmon and Mark. In fact, Mr. Bergstrand, the next door neighbor, later testified that he had seen them in a neighborhood pool, standing nose to nose in the pool in a very intimate embrace.

[Narrator]

Detective Pruitt has the makings of a motive, but nothing more in the way of hard evidence against Melinda Harmon.

[Paul Morrison]

And her family sort of descended around her, circled the wagons around her. Right after this crime happened, her dad became, within a fairly short period of time, really pretty uncooperative with the police. You're picking on my daughter and how dare you ask her. And very controlling. She was then taken away, back to Ohio within about two days of the homicide happening, never to return to that house.

[Detective Joe Pruitt]

Well, the bottom line is that we think they're involved. And we thought from the very beginning that there was enough information to arrest both of them for David's murder. But we never thought for one minute there was enough information to convict them. So we did not make an arrest.

[Narrator]

The case goes cold and stays that way for almost 20 years.

[Detective Bill Wall]

We are in one of the rooms in the basement, the investigations bureau that we use to look at evidence.

[Narrator]

Steve James and Bill Wall are detectives with the Olathe Police Department. In 2001, they pick up one of the city's coldest cases, the murder of David Harmon nearly 20 years earlier.

[Detective Steve James]

When you read this thing, it reads like, hey, it was either Melinda or Mark. It had to been one of them or both of them. Probably both.

[Narrator]

Melinda is Melinda Harmon, David's widow. Mark is Mark Mangelsdorf, a local college student and police suspect Melinda's one time lover.

[Detective Steve James]

You know, after you read this thing, you have to prove it, and then you go back and you start pulling out all this evidence. This item here is the pink nightgown that Melinda Harmon was wearing the night of the murder. Not what you would think.

[Narrator]

The nightgown is splattered with blood, but only at the bottom, above the waist. The garment is perfectly clean.

[Detective Steve James]

Melinda's story is that she woke up in the middle of night to someone beating her husband. She was pulled out of bed. Well, if you look at the crime scene, you would see that she should have had a lot more blood on. This nightgown just reaffirmed everything that we were reading in the case file. And now the physical evidence is starting to support that.

[Detective Bill Wall]

She probably hasn't spoken to anybody about this since she went back to Ohio. I would imagine that from best we can tell, she put this behind her and never spoke of it again.

[Detective Steve James]

The next step was just going up and seeing if Melinda would talk to us.

[Narrator]

Melinda Harmon is now Melinda Rash, far away from Olathe, Kansas, and the murder of her first husband.

[Detective Bill Wall]

You expected to see somebody that maybe was in mourning for 20 years and maybe never got remarried again. But obviously she was able to go on with her life and go on with her life very well.

[Narrator]

At 9am on a Monday morning, cold case detectives ring her doorbell.

[Detective Steve James]

Obviously, we caught her off guard. She'd just gotten out of the shower. She's in a robe, and her hair's wrapped in a towel. So she wasn't ready for us. I said, hey, we're detectives from Olathe, Kansas. We'd like to talk to you about your late husband, David Harmon. And she said, sure. How can I help you?

[Narrator]

Melinda invites the detectives in. At the kitchen table, she recounts the events of February 28, 1982.

[Detective Steve James]

Well, her story now is that she was awakened by these terrible thuds of someone striking her husband.

[Detective Bill Wall]

She got up on her own and went to the bathroom. There was a masked, shadowy figure beating her husband.

[Narrator]

In 1982, Melinda told police two men broke into her house. Now there is only one.

[Detective Steve James]

Right away, we realize, hey, what about the two black guys that broke in demanding the bank keys? What about one guy saying to the other, I think he hit him too hard. You may have killed him. There wasn't any of that. So Steve and I both remember looking at each other across the table going, wow, we're onto something there. The story you later said, two black men, fake keys.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

Well, two dark figures.

[Detective Steve James]

Two dark figures, bank keys. Why did you tell the cops that story?

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

At the time, I didn't know it was a story.

[Narrator]

Inside a police interrogation room, Detective Bill Wall goes to work on Melinda Rasche.

[Detective Steve James]

So I'm trying to get her to say that, yeah, I lied back in 1982. You knew it wasn't true.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

Right.

[Detective Steve James]

This is where this secret is. This is where I think we need to go. Big thing. She's changed her story. She's lied, and she's admitted that she lied back in 1982. She's admitting that she lied, and that's huge.

[Narrator]

Wal then steers the conversation to Mark Mengelsdorf.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

I think that I am guilty of encouraging and perhaps flirting in a way that I shouldn't have done had we met at a, you know, different time

[Captain J.R. Howard]

and lie, you could have been an idol.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

Yeah.

[Detective Steve James]

He never came out and blatantly said, I'm gonna. I'm gonna take care of him. No, he's in our way and I will fix it.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

No, but the more time that went on, I sent some stronger feelings.

[Detective Steve James]

We're convinced that she's into this up to her neck. So now all I gotta do is just keep her rolling. I gotta keep her talking. And usually good things happen when people keep talking.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

I had a sense that something bad might happen.

[Narrator]

After 45 minutes of interrogation, Melinda starts pointing fingers, all of them at her now former friend, Mark Mangelsdorf.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

In my heart, I knew it was him.

[Detective Steve James]

In my heart, I knew it was him. I mean, basically what she's saying is, yeah, I know it's him, but if I play word games like I know in my heart was him, I haven't actually come out and said I knew it was him. So that's a good statement for us because I know that we're getting somewhere. And now I need to get her over that next hurdle. Deep down, I still think there's more. It's just too weird the way you're saying it.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

That's where I want to go. Then I want to go deep down with you.

[Detective Steve James]

Here's my big hang up.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

Okay, tell me your big hang up.

[Detective Steve James]

That you didn't have knowledge of this

[Narrator]

prior to prior knowledge. Wall is suggesting that Melinda and Mangelsdorf staged the break in and planned the murder together.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

And he didn't talk to me. He hit me.

[Detective Steve James]

Wouldn't he have talked to you about that prior to that?

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

No.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

I don't know.

[Detective Steve James]

Crazy and smart enough to figure all this out on his own, that he's not going to tell you anything, so you have no guilt, and then just assume, just assume that you're going forward with this story. How did he know you were going to make up a story that wasn't true? How did Mark Mangelsdorf know that? You were going to come up with this story about two black guys breaking in the house, demanding Banky. That's way out there. Of course he knew that she was going to lie for him. There was some talking about how we

[Captain J.R. Howard]

were going to get away with this.

[Narrator]

Melinda never admits to a murder plot, but the Cold Case team believes she has done enough to incriminate herself.

[Paul Morrison]

The mistakes that she made was to admit the relationship, which is a big deal, was to admit that she lied. That was massive. And then to try to negotiate some sort of a deal.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

We need to know.

[Detective Steve James]

You need to know what the options are.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

You know what I'm saying?

[Prosecutor Chris Raff]

Yes.

[Paul Morrison]

Innocent people don't negotiate deals. And that kind of stuff just kills you. If you're a defendant, you can't watch that tape and not absolutely believe that she is up to her neck in that deal.

[Narrator]

Unlike Melinda, who opened the door to police, Mark Mangelsdorf refuses to talk. Both are indicted for murder. Melinda is tried first, and Mangelsdorf plays the role of star witness.

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

I did give them a saliva sample

[Paul Morrison]

with a search warrant. The next day, I knew that I

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

would be able to attend the KU MBA program. I had been accepted. Let me be very clear. I was not in love with Melinda Harmon. I did not have a romantic or sexual or physical relationship with her.

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[Captain J.R. Howard]

Mr. Mangelsdorf, were you having an affair with Melina?

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

No, I absolutely was not.

[John Harmon]

Were you romantically involved with her?

[Mitzi Pardue]

No.

[Narrator]

In April of 2005, Mark Mangelsdorf takes the stand in a murder trial.

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

Let me be very clear. I was not in love with. With Melinda Harmon. I did not have a romantic or sexual or physical relationship with her. None of that. Melinda Harmon was my friend.

[Narrator]

Melinda Rash is on trial for the murder of her husband, David Harmon in 1982. Mark Mangelsdorf is her alleged accomplice.

[Paul Morrison]

Well, we thought it was a love triangle.

[Narrator]

Paul Morrison is the prosecutor for Johnson County, Kansas.

[Paul Morrison]

Two people decided that they were going to murder this guy to get him out of the way so that they could be together.

[Narrator]

In 1982, Mangelsdorf said he and Melinda did not stop by his apartment the day of the murder. In 2005, he backs away from that statement on the witness stand. That proves to be a problem.

[Paul Morrison]

What do you call somebody that doesn't tell the truth? What's a word for that?

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

I. I reviewed the.

[Paul Morrison]

What's the word for that, Mr. Mangelsburg?

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

I reviewed the evidence.

[Paul Morrison]

What's the word for somebody who doesn't tell the truth?

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

Forgetful.

[Paul Morrison]

What else? What's another word? It starts with an L and he never would say. I said. I even said. It starts with an L and he wouldn't say. And then I think he ended up saying forgetful or something like that.

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

I didn't know.

[Paul Morrison]

Well, that's convenient, isn't it? Comes across a lot better if the witness just says, you know what? I was freaked out. I didn't tell the truth or whatever, but he wouldn't give anything up.

[Narrator]

Melinda Harmon does not testify at her trial. The jury, however, gets to watch a video of her interrogation.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

I had a sense that something bad might happen.

[Detective Steve James]

The jury got to see her firsthand, how she reacted. And anybody with life experiences that watches this tape will see that this woman is up to this, to her neck, and she is guilty. She conspired with this Mark Mangelsdorf to kill her husband.

[Randy Spector (jury foreman)]

For us as a jury, it was the issue of how the stories had changed.

[Narrator]

Randy Spector serves as the jury foreman in Melinda Rash's trial.

[Randy Spector (jury foreman)]

If your husband had been brutally killed, why would you tell a different story than what really happened to the detectives? You'd want to find out who did it, why it happened, and bring that person to justice. So, as a group, it was very hard for us to. To try to figure out a reason why that would be.

[Narrator]

On count one, we, the jury, find

[Captain J.R. Howard]

the defendant guilty of murder. On count two, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

[Narrator]

For prosecutor Morrison, Melinda Harmon's guilty verdict is only half the job. The trial of Mark Mangelsdorf is still to come.

[Paul Morrison]

The last thing we wanted to see happen was for her to get a life term of confinement, and nothing to happen happened to him. And that was a very real possibility.

[Randy Spector (jury foreman)]

So I actually contacted the district attorney to see was there a way that they could get Melinda to testify in his trial, because we thought that was going to be a key component to that.

[Paul Morrison]

I had three jurors that summer contact me independently of each other and say, what are you going to do about Mangelsdorf? Are you going to be able to get her to help you?

[Randy Spector (jury foreman)]

I know that in the eyes of the law, they're both equally guilty of the crime. But the fact that Mark was actually the one that committed the murder, I honestly was more worried about him getting a conviction.

[Narrator]

Morrison meets with Melinda's attorneys, and they strike a deal. Melinda's conviction will be set aside. She can plead guilty to a lesser charge of second degree murder if she agrees to testify about Mangelsdorf.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

At this time, you, Honor, the defendant, Mr. Mangelsdorf, wishes to withdraw his plea of not guilty and his election for trial. And we will be entering a plea to a substitute information.

[Narrator]

Faced with the possibility of Melinda's testimony, Mark Mangelsdorf also pleads guilty to second degree murder.

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

Yes, you, Honor.

[Narrator]

Back in Olathe, Kansas, Paul Morrison takes some heat for agreeing to a plea deal that set aside a conviction by jury. John Harmon, father of the murder victim, is not among his critics.

[John Harmon]

I think what Paul Morrison did was the only way that he could have achieved closure. Paul said he wanted to do the right thing, so he went ahead and did it. So to his credit, he didn't get it. It's something.

[Narrator]

At sentencing, for the first time, John Harmon has a chance to address his son's killer directly.

[John Harmon]

I waited for 24 years to talk to you in just this setting. You wear many hats. You're not only a murderer, you're also a thief. You took our one and only child in a vicious. A vicious attack and act of violence. We suffer the loss of our only child. We lost forever. Forever the chance of any grandchildren. But I'm filled with sadness for you, Mark. You've destroyed yourself. What a waste. What a complete waste of a human life.

[Narrator]

When John Harmon is finished, his son's killer takes the stand.

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

Mr. Harmon, I can't begin to imagine the grief and the sorrow that you and your family, your wife, experienced. What I can say is I'm truly, truly sorry for David's death and for the loss of the time that you've experienced not being able to spend time with him. What I do know is that I have pled guilty to this. I've acknowledged my involvement, and I hope that in some small way that that helps. I have tried to do the right things throughout my life and especially for the last 24 years. And that's genuine.

[Narrator]

It's not an act under 1982 laws. The judge sentences Mark Mankelsdorf to the maximum allowed by the law.

[John Harmon]

I'm going to impose the following sentence.

[Narrator]

To be remanded in the state of

[Detective Steve James]

Kansas for a period of not less

[John Harmon]

than 10 or more than 20 years.

[Narrator]

Next, it's Melinda's turn to speak to the Harmon family.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

I'm really sorry. Words do not adequately express the things I feel in my heart. Just words are not enough. And I would love to have better words. I just don't. I'm very, very remorseful and would in no way ever expect any amount of time to make up for this.

[Narrator]

Melinda, too, is sentenced to 10 to 20 years in a Kansas prison. As part of her deal, she fills detectives in on the details of a love triangle that. That turned into a murder.

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

I think we're ready.

[Detective Steve James]

Yes.

[Mark Mangelsdorf]

Christina, how are you feeling?

[Paul Morrison]

She and Martin Mangelsdorf went for a walk that afternoon. She said during that walk that Mark told her, it's imminent. I've got a. I bought a crowbar and it's imminent at night.

[Narrator]

It happened after Mangelsdorf killed her husband. According to Melinda, he turned on her in an effort to make the murder look like a break in.

[Paul Morrison]

He then does hit her in the side of the face and says, sorry to do this to you, sweetie. I think that was a quote.

[Narrator]

In an ironic twist, Melinda and Mark never saw each other again after the murder.

[Detective Steve James]

She said, you know, when I'm standing there watching Mark Mangelsdorf beat my husband to death, I knew at that time that I could never be with this man. And I knew at that time that this was a big mistake. So they never hooked up afterwards.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

This is kind of a crime scene diagram. This street that we're facing right here is Main Street. Dodson's Pharmacy is located down in the middle of the next block.

[Narrator]

It's an early morning on April 5, 1977, when Arkansas State Police investigator J.R. howard is is called to downtown Beebe where 71 year old officer Abe Pipkin has been found beaten to death.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

There was blood on the sidewalks just completely encompassing this area where he had wandered around after he'd been beaten.

[Narrator]

The blood trail leads investigators to a local pharmacy that had been burglarized earlier that same morning.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

This is the glass door that was broken out and the glass was knocked back in probably 25 to 30ft. Our theory was based on the way the scene looked to us. Abe had interrupted a burglary in progress. It's obvious that the burglary occurred before he got there because there was items taken from the drug store. We felt like he encountered the suspect outside the store and that he was beaten brutally.

[Joe Pipkin]

It just didn't happen. In a small town, you know, something like that just didn't happen.

[Narrator]

Joe Pipkin is Abe's son.

[Joe Pipkin]

We left our doors open, we left our keys in our cars. This just didn't happen. There was lots of nights that I couldn't sleep for thinking about it. And a good friend of mine was a police officer and BB at the time and, and I rode around with him. We tried to find something that we could put something together for any kind of lead whatsoever. I would have liked to have been the one to find out who done it. He would have liked to been the one that solved the case, but it didn't happen.

[Narrator]

Whoever killed Abe Pipkin left no witnesses and little in the way of physical evidence.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

Obviously it was a drugstore burglary, so we were assuming that it was a someone who's into drugs that committed the burglary. We began the investigation by looking at local people we knew to be on the drug scene. These suspects were polygraphed, a lot of them. We were able to eliminate them because we could positively prove where they were at the time.

[Narrator]

The Pipkin murder goes cold and remains that way until one of this country's most famous serial killers steps into the case seven years later.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

Henry Lee Lucas has claimed to have

[Detective Steve James]

murdered over 150 women.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

Henry Lee Lucas came to law enforcement attention when he started confessing to many, many homicides. That's how he got on our radar, so to speak, was from the notoriety he was gaining from his interviews he was giving in Texas.

[Narrator]

Yeah, I'm gonna talk

[Detective Steve James]

peace of mind. If they kill me, they kill me.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

I mean, I can't help that. I've got to do what I gotta do. We contacted Texas authorities and told them about the A. Pipkin case and asked them if they would run it by Henry Lee Lucas, which they did.

[Narrator]

Lucas claims he killed an old man in Beebe and grants Howard an interview to talk specifics.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

He gave some examples of using an iron pipe to beat the victim that he was talking about. And it was near a railroad track. And there were a lot of similarities with the crime scene, with what he was saying, but there were some discrepancies. We just kind of wrote off his discrepancies as the fact that he was getting things confused with other crimes he had committed. Even though he seemed credible at the time, there's still not a guy that. That you particularly wanted to shake hands with.

[Narrator]

Henry Lee Lucas is charged with Abe Pipkin's murder. But those charges are later dropped when the serial killer turns out to be a serial liar.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

The document that we got that convinced us Henry was not the man that killed Abe was a letter from the deputy Director of the Department of Public Safety in Texas. Abe was killed April 5, 1977, which is in the middle of this time when they documented that Lucas was in Maryland.

[Narrator]

With Henry Lee Lucas out of the picture, the Pipkin homicide once again returns to the cold files.

[Harold Armstrong]

I've known Abe for years. You can see Abe walking up and down the street. He'd have his gun on, have his overalls on with his badge.

[Narrator]

Harold Armstrong is chief of police in Beebe and still mourning the loss of a good friend. When he takes a phone call in January of 1993.

[Harold Armstrong]

He described a murder about how Abe was killed, about his gun being stolen, that he wore overalls. He said he had got that information from his. From a lady.

[Narrator]

Armstrong is skeptical at first, but grows more convinced the longer he keeps his informant on the line.

[Harold Armstrong]

The stuff that he was telling me was not published in the paper. About how Abe was beat. He just kept on telling me that this girl knew all about it. Demanded more or less that we pick her up and talk to her because she could tell us some information about Abe's murder.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

We almost immediately took steps to, you know, process that lead and see if we could substantiate it.

[Narrator]

The informant offers up the name of a woman, Mitzi Pardue.

[Mitzi Pardue]

When they asked me to come down to the sheriff's office, I pretty much knew what it was for.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

Mitzi asked me, why do you want to talk to me? And all I said was, or words to this effect was, mitzi, I want to talk to you about something that happened a long time ago. I knew from your reaction that the floor fell out. Yeah, it did, it did. It was a shock to her. She was just. You could just see the look on her face. And I remember she said, and this is almost verbatim, I always knew this day was coming. I just didn't know when. And I knew then I was at the right place at the right time.

[Narrator]

Mitzi takes Howard back to a time when she was dating a drugstore thief named Gary Evans. And a mourning forever etched into her memory.

[Mitzi Pardue]

Gary came in the door. I was the only one at home, which was unusual. It was our. In the morning between 8 and 9, he said that he had something to tell me. And so he went in the kitchen and he told me that he had murdered someone.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

He tells her he may have beaten someone to death and that he got some pharmaceuticals out of the drugstore. Well, that's exactly what happened.

[Mitzi Pardue]

He said that the police officer had recognized him and that he had to kill him. And then he left and I still didn't believe him. And it wasn't until later on that I heard it on the radio that I said it must be true that he really did kill that man.

[Narrator]

A background check reveals that Gary Evans is living in Little Rock and has no recent run ins with the law. Howard asks Mitzi if she'll wear a wire and try to obtain a confession from her one time boyfriend.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

And you asked me something to the effect of, well, can you guarantee me he'll never get out of jail?

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

Right, right.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

And I said, I couldn't guarantee you'd ever go to jail.

[Mitzi Pardue]

Right.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

So that's when he said, you're afraid to do it, afraid he'd kill you.

[Mitzi Pardue]

I still had a lot of fear that if he had actually murdered somebody, then he could do the same to me.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

This is best lead that we'd had in years. And I felt sure that we were only going to get one good shot at making the case, and we needed to wait until we could make it our best shot. And I wasn't convinced that if we compelled her to come forward that she would cooperate as well as she would if she came to that decision on her own.

[Narrator]

J.R. howard doesn't press Mitzi further and will have to wait another nine years before his patience will pay off. And Mitzi puts on a wire.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

They pulled a gun on me and I hit him with a crowbar.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

Are you serious?

[Gail Bergstrand]

Yeah.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

Now I guess I killed him.

[Narrator]

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[Mitzi Pardue]

You swear if I'm lying, I'm dying.

[Narrator]

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[Detective Steve James]

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[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

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[Captain J.R. Howard]

He's a policeman. He's an elderly man. He's just out here doing his job and just gets brutally beaten, left for dead. That all kind of came together to make it a case. It just doesn't.

[Narrator]

Arkansas State Police Captain J.R. howard has the unsolved murder of Officer Abe Pipkin on his mind.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

I just thought that it would be a good time to look into it again. And plus, several years had passed and I was just curious to see if Mitzi's status in life, so to speak, had changed.

[Narrator]

Mitzi is Mitzi Pardue, a reluctant informant to whom Gary Evans, a former boyfriend, had once allegedly confessed. Howard hopes enough time has passed to now encourage her cooperation.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

Then I found you in Georgia and called you. I didn't know if you'd even remember at that point in time, but I mean, you obviously did. And you said you were willing, ready to help and that your husband supported you, Steve supported you. And so I thought, hey, this is going to work. Her life had changed. She was married, had a good husband, kids, and she was ready to help us out. We were wanting to try to wire her up, wire her vehicle up, have her make direct contact with Evans. And that's where you came in the picture.

[Narrator]

J.R. howard meets with Arkansas State Police investigator Hoyt Harness to set the stage for the sting operation. They first locate Gary Evans, who is a manager at a local Sears.

[Mitzi Pardue]

We had concocted a ruse whereby Mitzi would go to the Sears store at the mall and from there to engage him in some casual conversation, hopefully getting to the part about the murder.

[Narrator]

Harness must now get Mitzi ready to wear a wire.

[Mitzi Pardue]

This was a one shot chance. I mean, if we mess this up, if we actually attempted a contact with Gary and it failed or he discovered that she was a police informant or that the police were involved, that we would never get another chance like that. I mean, what were you thinking? I mean, did you think that he would talk with you?

Yeah, I thought he would. They kept going over and over and over again what to say to get him to go to the confession. They kept saying, you know, if he goes down this path, this is how you need to bait him back in.

I didn't want you to know anything more really about it than you, than you knew back then. Even with the most routine police investigation that involves informants, there's always concern that they'll say the wrong thing at the wrong time, that they'll get stage frightened.

[Narrator]

Essence time is 10:35am 3:26, 2002.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

We're about to make a meeting with Gary Evans in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

[Mitzi Pardue]

This is the Sears store, which is where Gary Evans was employed at the time.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

Whenever you came down, there wasn't any room for me to be really nervous because it so needed to be done and, and it was like I said, done. Well, because of what you guys had laid the groundwork for.

[Narrator]

Wired and ready. Mitzi walks into the Sears and spots her former boyfriend.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

And I yelled, hey, you know, I need to talk to you about rototillers. Or I need to talk to somebody about rototillers. And he turned around and he recognized me instantly.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

How are you doing?

[Narrator]

Good. How. How are you?

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

Long time.

[Narrator]

No, sir. That's weird.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

It is weird.

[Narrator]

You work here?

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

Yeah.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

When he recognized me and said, you know, how you doing? And all, then it was like, let's go get a Coke. Let's go get, you know, something to drink.

[Narrator]

The pair hop in Mitzi's car rigged with a hidden camera and goes for a drive.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

Came over here to Sonic and parked where that Chevrolet van is and just started talking to him about, you know, the past and what his life was like right now.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

I just got remarried just like two years ago.

[Detective Steve James]

Wow, that's not very long.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

No, it hadn't been long.

[Narrator]

Mitzi and Gary also talk about the old times, the good, the bad, and soon the very bad.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

I think about the things that I did and the terrible person I was, you know, had much. I've changed. I've really changed a whole lot. You probably wouldn't even know, really. Yeah, I'm a lot different. You know, I just cringe when I think about the past and things that I did and, you know, robbing drugstores and it just makes me cringe.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

I was bringing up the past for him. I'm part of his past. And he had told me about the murder the morning after, and I think that he felt real, just that, you know, he had met an old friend and that he was going back in time to relive that.

[Mitzi Pardue]

I remember when he came over that

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

morning, he told me that he had to rob that drugstore and then had to hit that guy to get away. Oh, my God. See, you can't be telling me Too many flair.

[Mitzi Pardue]

I heard on the news that that guy died.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

What happened?

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

I mean, do you really want to know?

[Narrator]

Gary Evans is about to cross a line when he stops and takes a

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

step back so I can go to jail for it. Yeah, there's no doubt. You never go to the police and tell them you. Would you?

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

Oh, yeah, right.

[Mitzi Pardue]

Here's the police.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

One guy that pulled right beside us. And here's the guys right across the street. And I'm a good liar when I need to be. And I said, no, I'm not.

[Mitzi Pardue]

I'm not going to go to the

[Narrator]

police with that Gary takes mitzi back to 1977 and the morning a Beebe police officer was killed.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

I just can't believe I did it either. I pulled and I hit him with

[Narrator]

a crowbar, you see? Yeah.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

Now I guess I killed him.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

When he started going down that path, it was like, keep him there, you know, keep asking him real subtle questions.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

I thought you said that he recognized you.

[Narrator]

He saw my face.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

It was more of I had to kill him to get away. And what the police told me that to say if he goes on that direction was, yes, Gary, I understand that you had to kill him, that you had to get away.

[Melinda Rash (Harmon)]

I'm sorry, Gary. You didn't mean to kill the guy.

[Mitzi Pardue]

Yeah, I felt like I was an actor, that I was kind of separated out from my body and I was watching myself go through these steps that the police had said to go through. I was on his side. I was his old friend.

[Narrator]

Little does Gary Evans know a few more friends are on the listening end of his admission to murder.

[Mitzi Pardue]

When I finally found out that not only was it successful, but it was completely thoroughly successful, the relief was immeasurable for me.

[Narrator]

Mitzi says goodbye to her old boyfriend. Then about three months later, Gary Evans pays the price for his conversation in the car and is arrested for Abe Pipkin's murder.

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

This is the man accused in the case. 46 year old Gary Lee Evans of

[Narrator]

Jonesboro is facing capital murder charges after

[Investigator Hoyt Harness]

new leads surfaced in the April 1977

[Narrator]

beating death of Officer Abe Pipkin.

[Prosecutor Chris Raff]

It's difficult on him, but he's telling the truth of what happened. He murdered a man in cold blood.

[Narrator]

On February 10, 2003, prosecuting attorney Chris Raff begins laying out his case against Gary Evans. One that boils down to a 48 minute videotape.

[Prosecutor Chris Raff]

We didn't have DNA, we had no fingerprints, we had no witnesses, no descriptions, not even a description of a vehicle, no murder weapon.

[Detective Bill Wall (interrogation)]

They pulled a gun on him and I hit him with a crowbar.

[Prosecutor Chris Raff]

Without that tape and without Mitzi, we would not have had one thing. That was the case against Gary Evans.

[Mitzi Pardue]

The trial was very difficult because at that point he knew that it was me that had done an undercover operation on him. My thoughts were, you know, he better be convicted, this better be enough to convict him. So I was pretty nervous.

[Narrator]

On February 14, Mitzi discovers she can rest easy. As a jury convicts gary Evans of first degree murder, he is sentenced to 30 years.

[Captain J.R. Howard]

We're standing here where a guy lost his life 29 years ago on a

[Narrator]

summer afternoon, J.R. howard revisits, baby and the place Officer Abe Pipkin lost his

[Captain J.R. Howard]

life on April 5, 1977, when we were working this crime scene, little did we know that 25 years later, we'd be back solving the case. It's a great feeling to be a part of something that has been so long coming around.

[Joe Pipkin]

You know, for 25 years, I run around wondering who killed him. And I thought we'd never solved a

[Narrator]

case for Abe Pipkin's son. The conviction puts to rest years of wishing and wondering.

[Joe Pipkin]

And I prayed that we would find him and justice would be served. And it was. God answers prayers may take a while.

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[Mitzi Pardue]

You swear if I'm lying, I'm dying.

[Narrator]

This is the mindset.

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[Narrator]

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