The Path Went Chilly - Bonus Episode - Statement Analysis, Part 1

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

November 27, 1985. St. Augustine, Florida. While attending a neighbourhood social gathering, 12-year old Martha Jean Lambert tells her mother that she needs to take a brief trip back to their mobile home, but she never returns and is eventually reported missing. Suspicion falls on Martha’s 14-year old brother, David, after he gives conflicting stories about the last time he saw his sister. 24 years later, David confesses to killing Martha and disposing of her body and police find his story to be believable enough to close the investigation. However, David soon recants his confession and since corroborating evidence cannot be found to support it, Martha continues to remain a missing person and there is still debate about what actually happened to her. In this special two-part series of “The Path Went Chilly”, Jules and I explore the unsolved disappearance of Martha Jean Lambert and in this episode, Jules will perform a statement analysis on David Lambert’s confession. Part Two of our series can be found here:https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-embuq-234d44be

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. We're officially transitioning from year 9 to year 10 of the Trail Went Cold, and I thought
0:05.4	this would be a good opportunity to do a very special bonus feed drop. You might know that for the past
0:11.2	few years, I've been doing a spin-off podcast called The Path Went Chili, in which myself and two other
0:16.8	co-hosts named Jules and Ashley, take a fresh look at cases that I've previously covered
0:21.6	on the trail went cold and discuss them. We're nearing our four-year anniversary as a show, and since
0:27.0	Jules has been delving into the field of statement analysis, we recently decided to do something
0:32.0	a little different from the norm and released a new series of episodes about the 1985 disappearance
0:37.2	of 12-year-old Martha Jean Lambert,
0:39.9	which I covered over four years ago on episode number 191 of The Trail Went Cold.
0:44.9	As you might recall, 24 years after Martha went missing,
0:48.5	her older brother David confessed to killing her to the police,
0:51.6	but he later recanted his confession, and since Martha's remains
0:54.9	have still never been found, we have no idea if David was actually telling the truth.
1:00.5	However, since the police interrogation video of David's confession is available on YouTube,
1:05.5	I transcribed a section of it and sent it to Jules. I did not tell her any details about the case, and she provided a
1:12.3	statement analysis of the confession to share her thoughts about whether or not she believed it sounded
1:17.5	legitimate. This particular episode is part one, where Jules breaks down the confession and provides her
1:23.5	analysis, and in part two, I will finally share the full details of the case with Jules,
1:28.8	and we discuss whether or not it changes her original analysis. So if you like this episode,
1:34.4	we encourage you to seek out the Pathwent Chili and listen to part two of our series of episodes
1:39.0	about the disappearance of Martha Jean Lambert. The episode was originally released on
1:44.0	January the 16th, 2025,
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