The Trail Went Cold - Bonus Episode - Kent Heitholt

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

“The Trail Went Cold” is taking a break this week after a busy summer of live shows and conventions! In place of a brand new episode, please enjoy this Patreon-exclusive bonus episode from last year covering the case of Kent Heitholt. Robin covered this same case at the Ottawa Podcast Festival in August 2019. November 1, 2001. Columbia, Missouri. Kent Heitholt, a 48-year old sports editor for the Columbia Daily Tribune, is severely beaten and strangled to death in their parking lot. Two-and-a-half years later, investigators are led towards a young suspect named Charles Erickson, who has told people he had vivid dreams of himself and his friend, Ryan Ferguson, murdering Kent after leaving a nearby bar that night. After Charles confesses to the crime, both he and Ryan are charged with Kent’s murder and Charles’ testimony helps convict Ryan and send him to prison for 40 years. However, after Charles and another key witness recant their testimony, Ryan’s conviction is vacated and he is released from prison in 2013. Even though many feel that Charles is also innocent of the crime, he continues to remain incarcerated. If Ryan Ferguson and Charles Erickson did not murder Kent Heitholt, then who did? On this month’s bonus Patreon episode, we explore one of the most infamous wrongful conviction cases in recent memory which has yet to find a definitive resolution. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_W._Ferguson https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4304 http://www.freecharleserickson.org/index.html “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to something a little different from the norm for the trail went cold.
0:05.0	You may have recently heard me announce that we are taking this week off and not releasing a new episode today,
0:10.0	but we decided to fill in the void by dropping one of our exclusive bonus Patreon
0:15.3	episodes into our feed instead. Ever since we launched on Patreon a year and a half ago, we have produced
0:21.8	monthly bonus episodes for all of our patrons who have signed up with us in tier 2,
0:27.0	aka then explained, or higher.
0:30.0	This particular episode was recorded last summer and covers one of my pet cases.
0:34.9	The 2001 murder of newspaper editor Kent Holt
0:38.7	and the highly controversial subsequent convictions of Charles Ericsson and Ryan Ferguson,
0:44.0	the latter of whom has since had their conviction overturned,
0:47.0	and been released from prison.
0:49.0	Most of our bonus episodes are not just your standard unsolved cold cases, and they usually have a unique twist to them.
0:56.0	They include some of the cases which were featured as final appeal segments on Unsolved Mysteries, such as the convictions of Johnny Lee Wilson, Larry Race, and Jeffrey
1:05.1	McDonald. I explore a few cases which are technically solved but still have a few unanswered
1:10.8	questions and one of our earliest Patreon episodes was a retrospective on the life and career of the late great Robert Stack.
1:18.0	Anyway, today's episode is just a sampling of the type of bonus content you'll get if you sign up with us on
1:24.8	Patreon in tier 2 or higher, so hopefully you'll enjoy it and if you decide to sign up,
1:31.1	you'll get access to a number of exclusive episodes just like this one.
1:35.5	All you have to do is visit us at Patreon.com slash The Trail Went Cold.
1:40.5	So we'll see you again next week when we drop our next regular episode on September the 11th.
1:47.0	November 1st, 2001.
1:51.0	Columbia, Missouri.
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