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Trace Evidence

163 - Bill and Kay Wood

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

James William "Bill" Wood Kaidena Lozelle "Kay" Wood had just celebrated their third wedding anniversary. Each had lived long, good lives building their own families and only united them when Bill was 77 and Kay was 60. For three long years they were in love and spent time with their families and enjoying their hobbies of antiquing and country music.

Just two weeks later a massive fire broke out at the home they shared together. When firefighters were able to sift through the rubble they discovered Bill's body, but his cause of death was not what they had expected. Bill had been shot prior to the fire, which is believed to have been arson. What became of Kay, no one knew for sure as she mysteriously vanished.

Over the course of the next ten years investigators would work hard to determine who had been responsible and why they had targeted the elderly couple. Finding their missing truck was the first major break, which lead to a description of a person of interest. The question was, could they identify him and track him down or would the case grow stagnant?

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0:00.0

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0:38.5

A blinding flash split the night sky in rural Ohio as a massive blaze erupted at the home of Bill and Kay Wood

0:46.5

Firefighters arrived within minutes but were overwhelmed by the flames calling in backup to get the towering inferno under control

0:54.5

The next morning searching through the ash and rubble they found Bill's body

0:58.9

He hadn't died in the fire though but had been murdered before it began

1:04.1

Kay's whereabouts were unknown and she had seemingly vanished

1:08.5

Police were then faced with both a homicide end of missing person's investigation

1:12.8

though with each discovery things would become more confusing

1:16.6

The couple's truck was gone found later at a luxury apartment complex nearly 200 miles away

1:22.6

While it was initially theorized the vehicle had been stolen after the fire witnesses placed the truck at the complex before it had even begun

1:30.6

A composite sketch showed the image of a potential suspect but his name continues to elude authorities as does Kay's fate and whereabouts

1:40.6

Nearly 10 years later and the chaos and confusion of this atrocious crime haunts the family as well as investigators

1:48.6

Who would target the elderly couple described as caring kind and compassionate and for what reason

1:55.8

Had robbery been the motive was the fire set to cover up evidence of the murder the abduction robbery or all three

2:04.1

Had this been random targeting an elderly couple with little hope of defending themselves

2:09.3

Or was it possible they had been victims of someone they had known and trusted

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