The Trail Went Cold - Bonus Episode - Larry Race

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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For personal reasons, the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold has been delayed until March 29, 2023. In its place this week, please enjoy one of our exclusive bonus Patreon episodes from our archives, and we look forward to profiling a new case for you next week. Thanks for your patience. May 11, 1982. Duluth, Minnesota. 33-year old married couple Larry and Debbie Race celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary by taking their boat out onto Lake Superior for an evening cruise. Hours later, Larry returns to shore and calls for help, claiming that a leak prompted them to evacuate the boat in a life raft before they became separated. Debbie’s body is soon found washed up on shore and her cause of death is determined to be hypothermia. However, since the life raft cannot be found and there are a number of discrepancies in Larry’s story, authorities suspect foul play and eventually charge him with Debbie’s murder. Larry is convicted of the crime and receives a life sentence, but even after he is paroled 22 years later, Larry continues to maintain that Debbie’s death was an accident. Was Larry Race wrongly convicted for the nonexistent murder of his wife, or was justice properly served? This month’s bonus Patreon episode explores one of the most heavily debated “Final Appeal” cases featured on “Unsolved Mysteries”. “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 doing a weekly livestream show on Vokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Tower Bridge, Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 10-11, 2023, as well as “Crimecon” at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida on September 22-24, 2023. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD23”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk or https://www.crimecon.com. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone this is Robin Mordor and for personal reasons I had to take some time off from the
0:05.2	podcast so instead of releasing a new episode this week we're going to drop one of our older
0:10.3	Patreon bonus episodes into our feed. This episode was originally released
0:14.9	four years ago and the featured case is best known for being a final appeal
0:19.1	segment on Unsaw Mysteries as it covers the controversial conviction of Larry Race for the
0:24.4	1982 murder of his wife Debbie Race and he always maintained that her death was a
0:28.9	tragic accident rather than a homicide. As an aside if you want to hear more content like this, you can visit
0:35.8	our Patreon page at patreon.com slash the trail went cold and sign up for tiers two or, where we have around 80 exclusive bonus episodes from both the
0:46.0	trail went cold and the path went chilly in our archives, and some of these episodes
0:50.6	explore other final appeal cases which were featured on Unsolved Mysteries.
0:54.6	Anyway, we'll go back to releasing new episodes starting next Wednesday, March the 29th,
1:00.3	but until then, I hope you enjoy hearing the full story behind the final appeal of Larry Race.
1:07.0	May 11th, 1982.
1:11.0	Duluth? Minnesota.
1:13.0	33-year-old married couple Larry and Debbie Race celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary
1:19.0	by taking their boat out on the Lake Superior for an evening cruise. Hours later, they recalls for help and claims they
1:26.4	evacuated the boat together in a life raft but became separated. Debbie's body is soon found
1:32.1	washed up on shore and her cause of death is determined to be hypothermia.
1:37.0	However, since the life raft cannot be found and a number of discrepancies open up in Larry's story, authorities suspect foul play and eventually
1:45.8	charge him with Debbie's murder. Larry is convicted and receives a life sentence, but even after
1:52.0	being paroled 22 years later, he maintains that Debbie's death was an accident, and debate remains about his guilt or innocence.
2:00.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, well, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,
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