The Trail Went Cold - Episode 102 - Patty Vaughan

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Christmas Day 1996. La Vernia, Texas. Patty Vaughan, a 32-year old mother of three, vanishes without a trace and her van is found abandoned by the side of the road the following day. According to her estranged husband, J.R. Vaughan, Patty had stormed out of their house following a heated argument. Traces of Patty’s blood are found inside the house and her van and seem to indicate she was a victim of foul play. At the time, Patty was in the midst of a trial separation from her husband and recently started a relationship with another man. J.R. becomes the primary person of interest by filing for divorce the day after Patty went missing, but investigators lack enough evidence to file charges. This week’s holiday-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold” covers a Christmas Day spousal disappearance which has yet to be solved. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/patty-inez-brightwell-vaughan https://www.ksat.com/news/new-dna-findings-in-patty-vaughns-1996-disappearance https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/family-of-patty-vaughan-searches-for-answers-20-years-after-her-disappearance http://www.analyticalq.com/patty/ “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.

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0:00.0	Christmas Day, 1996.
0:03.7	Lavernia, Texas.
0:06.3	Patty Vaughn, a 32-year-old mother of three, vanishes without a trace, and her van is found
0:12.3	abandoned by the side of the road the following day.
0:15.2	According to her estranged husband, J.R. Bond, Patty had stormed out of the house following a heated argument and
0:21.3	J.R. raises some eyebrows by immediately filing for divorce.
0:25.9	Traces of Patty's blood are found inside her van and house and seem to indicate that she was
0:30.9	a victim of foul play, while JR becomes the main person of interest,
0:35.8	there is not enough evidence to foul charges against him, and Patty's body is never found.
0:41.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, and uh, uh, yeah.
1:03.0	Oh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	and uh, and uh, and uh,
1:06.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:24.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got an unsolved missing person's case to cover today
1:29.2	the 1996 disappearance of Patty Vaughn. Throughout the month of December, our podcast is going to be covering
1:36.2	cold cases which took place around Christmas time and this particular episode is the tragic story of a mother
1:42.1	who went missing on Christmas Day.
1:44.0	If you're a fan of the true crime TV show disappeared, you might have seen the
1:48.8	episode they did about this case several years ago, and sadly, this type of story is all too common.
1:55.6	We have a woman who was in the middle of an unhappy marriage and had recently separated
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