Hello everyone, this is Robin Mortar, and for personal reasons, I had to take some time off from the podcast,

so instead of releasing a new episode this week, we're going to drop one of our older Patreon bonus

episodes into our feed. This episode was originally released four years ago, and the featured case

is best known for being a final appeal segment on Unsaw Mysteries, as it covers the controversial

conviction of Larry Race for the 1982 murder of his wife Debbie Race, and he always maintained that

her death was a tragic accident rather than a homicide. As an aside, if you want to hear more

content like this, you can visit our Patreon page at patreon.com slash the trail went cold,

and sign up for Tears 2 or 3, where we have around 80 exclusive bonus episodes from both the

trail went cold and the path went chilly in our archives, and some of these episodes explore

other final appeal cases which were featured on Unsaw Mysteries. Anyway, we'll go back to releasing

new episodes starting next Wednesday, March 29th, but until then, I hope you enjoy hearing the full

story behind the final appeal of Larry Race. May 11th, 1982. Duluth, Minnesota. 33-year-old married

couple Larry and Debbie Race celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary by taking their boat out on

the Lake Superior for an evening cruise. Hours later, Larry calls for help, and claims they have

evacuated the boat together in a life raft, but 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 a number of discrepancies open up in Larry's story, authority

suspect foul play, and eventually charge him with Debbie's murder. Larry is convicted and receives

a life sentence, but even after being paroled 22 years later, he maintains that Debbie's death was

an accident, and debate remains about his guilt or innocence. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to this month's bonus Patreon episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and today we're going to be chronicling another final appeal case

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