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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 108 – Lester Garnier

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

July 11, 1988. Walnut Creek, California. Lester Garnier, a 30-year old vice officer with the San Francisco Police Department, is found shot to death inside his car in a shopping center parking lot. Eyewitnesses recall seeing at least two unidentified blonde women in the parking lot the previous night and speculation mounts that Lester’s murder […]

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0:00.0

July 11, 1988.

0:03.9

Walnut Creek, California.

0:06.7

Lester Garnier, a 30-year-old vice officer

0:09.6

with the San Francisco Police Department,

0:11.9

is found shot to death inside his car

0:14.2

and a shopping center parking lot.

0:16.5

Eyewitnesses were called seeing at least two unidentified

0:19.1

blonde women in the parking lot the previous night,

0:22.0

and their speculation that Lester's murder

0:23.8

might be connected to his involvement

0:26.0

in a recent high-profile bust of a teenage prostitution

0:30.0

20 years later, it's announced that a fingerprint

0:32.8

from the crime scene has been matched to a Scottish woman

0:35.2

with an extensive criminal history.

0:37.6

However, there is not enough evidence to make an arrest,

0:41.1

and the Modifer Lester's murder remains unknown.

0:44.4

After that, the trail went cold.

1:17.5

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode

1:21.4

of the trail went cold.

1:23.2

I'm your host Robin Warder, and today we'll be exploring

1:25.8

an unsolved cold case involving a police officer,

1:29.2

the 1988 murder of Lester Garnier.

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