Tonight on TNT Cold Justice continues with an all new Friday March 6, season 3 episode 8 called, “American Dream (Fort Myers, FL)” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode an investigation in Fort Myers, Fla., centers on the vanishing of a young mother.
On the last episode, Real-life crime series Cold Justice followed former prosecutor Kelly Siegler and former crime-scene investigator Yolanda McClary as they dug into small-town murder cases that had lingered for years without answers or justice. When a Little League coach from Arlington, Texas, was bludgeoned to death in his own bed, Kelly and Yolanda had to figure out who would possibly wanted to kill such a beloved figure in the community. Did you watch last episode? If you missed it we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the TNT synopsis, “When a family with dreams of a better life moves from India to Florida, their lives are torn apart after the young mother abruptly disappears without a trace. In this episode, Kelly and Yolanda head to Fort Myers, Fla., to face the challenge of navigating through different languages and cultural traditions as they try to figure out what really happened to her.
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The disappearance of Rupinder Goraya wouldn’t normally be a case Yolanda and Kelly would look at, but on tonight’s all new episode of “Cold Justice” they’ve decided to do something they’ve never done before. And yet they could be in over their heads with in this case. You see there’s more than just one possibility that could explain Rupinder’s mysterious departure and, sadly, it’s either she ran away or something happened to her. So before the ladies could even begin investigating this case as a murder – they have to figure out if a crime actually did take place.
The victim, Rupinder, had come to the states with two year old son and husband after she had received a work visa. Apparently she had wanted to establish a career herself and there’s evidence pointing to her helping out her family back home. But after some time had passed, Rupinder had found out that she had a cancerous mass. So she was on sick leave from work, still weak from surgery that removed said mass, when she upped and disappeared one day.
And yet to her credit, no one who knew Rupinder said that she would have left her son. The little boy was born with special need and friends and family alike all said she would never leave him alone to be raised by his father. She might on the other leave her husband who according to police reports around the time – had several domestic violence charges against him. So from the very beginning, Rupinder’s husband Kultar was a suspect.
Kultar had called up his close friend Saroop that had lived in California back then and he asked the man to fly out in the same time span in which his wife disappeared. And when asked about that call, Kultar and Saroop both state they were looking for venues to possibly open a restaurant. But to this day neither man has ever remembered a name of any one of the venues they supposedly looked at. So there’s distinct chance that Kultar killed his wife and then called in is friend to help him dispose of the body.
Another indication that Kultar knows something is what happened to his son. Because not long after Rupinder went missing, he gave up his son to social services. At the time he said he couldn’t handle the boy by himself. Though that doesn’t explain how he knew for sure his wife wasn’t coming back.
Luckily, Devyn was adopted by good people and with a new investigation into his biological mother’s case – he was given the chance to finally meet his maternal relatives. However, his father hasn’t reached out to contact him at any point in time.
In fact, with his wife and son gone, Kultar was living out his dream.
He stayed in the country on his wife’s visa and he moved in with roommates. But just like his home life with his family, Kultar wasn’t a person you wanted to have around for long. Apparently he began ticking off his roommates by bringing home prostitutes. And then later he began intimidating them by threatening to hurt them like he did his ex-wife.
It seems Kultar wasn’t afraid to admit to what he did. He though only gave one person the specifics. And according to Christopher Justice, Kultar confessed to choking his wife when he felt like she was talking too much.
Back to their domestic violence disputes, Kultar was allegedly violent with his wife and there’s also a risk he was violent with his first wife as well. You see in the Indian culture is not’s really typical to find a divorced man. It’s sort of frowned upon. But seeing as Rupinder’s parents didn’t even know he was married before, they arranged him to marry their daughter.
Yet now Rupinder is gone. And the team knows that without doubt she wouldn’t have simply run away.
Kultar, again with a sense of smugness, would occasionally tell people that his wife was in Ireland. But the detectives know for a fact that’s she’s not. Regrettably, they had found all forms of her identification in the evidence they had taken from her house and there’s no way she could have left the country without any of it.
So the team sought to knock down Kultar’s alibi and they spoke with Saroop. And unlike last time, Saroop wasn’t protecting Kultar anymore. He told the detectives that Kultar had called him to rope him into something, an alibi, and although he doesn’t know where the body is – Saroop has a feeling his friend killed Rupinder.
And though there still wasn’t a body, Kelly and Yolanda had helped build a strong enough case for State’s Attorney to make an arrest. Meaning Kultar will finally have his day in court!
