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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – Interview With Scott Reeder

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 β€’ 3.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 January 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

September 17, 1990. Davenport, Iowa. Jennifer Lewis, a nine-year old girl from nearby Rock Island, Illinois, is found murdered on a school playground and her body has been set on fire. A man named Stanley Liggins is soon convicted of the crime, but this would only be the beginning of a very controversial case in […]

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Ep%,

0:30.0

Hello everyone and welcome to a very special episode of The Trail Went Cold.

0:39.4

I'm your host Robin Mortar and today we are going to be conducting our very first interview

0:44.0

on our podcast.

0:45.8

Recently we were contacted by representatives of a new True Crime podcast called Suspect Convictions

0:52.4

which debuted in early January.

0:55.0

Much like cereal, Suspect Convictions is a podcast told in multiple chapters and it examines

1:00.7

the brutal 1990 murder of a nine-year-old girl named Jennifer Lewis and the subsequent

1:05.9

conviction of a suspect named Stanley Liggins.

1:09.2

The case is fraught with controversy as Liggins has gone on trial for the crime twice and

1:14.3

had his convictions overturned twice.

1:17.0

His third trial is set to take place in a few months so in addition to providing this

1:21.1

case's backstory, Suspect Convictions will be featuring its conclusion as it unfolds

1:26.5

in real time.

1:28.0

The subject of today's interview will be Scott Reader, a veteran journalist who has been

1:32.4

involved in this case since day one and thought this story deserved his own podcast.

1:38.0

But before we get started, just a quick mention that even though we're delivering you a

1:41.5

special bonus episode today, The Trail Went Cold is a weekly podcast about unsolved cold

1:46.9

cases which alternates between our regular full-length episodes and 15 to 20-minute minisodes.

1:53.1

We deliver either a new full-length episode or a new minisode every Wednesday.

1:58.2

We're currently available for download on several platforms including iTunes, Stitcher,

2:02.8

and Google Play music, so if you like this podcast, be sure to subscribe to it.

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