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July 16th 1952

Salisbury, Connecticut. While attending summer camp, 10-year-old Connie Smith skips breakfast

and leaves the campground. Numerous witnesses see Connie walking down the road and attempting

to hitchhike, but before she reaches the nearest town, she vanishes without a trace.

Over the years, there are a number of promising leads, including an anonymous letter stating that

Connie is an unidentified murder victim from Arizona named Little Miss X, but the investigation

fails to turn up any trace of her. After that, The Trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host

Robin Warder and we're going to be chronicling an older Missing Children's case on today's

episode, the 1952 disappearance of 10-year-old Connie Smith. This is the tragic story of a girl who

was attending summer camp, but then made the inexplicable decision to walk away from the campground,

possibly after an altercation with her fellow campers, and was never seen again. At the time,

this case was a pretty big deal because Connie hailed from a wealthy affluent family and her

grandfather just happened to be the former governor of Wyoming, so no expense was spared in the

search efforts for her. What adds an extra level of intrigue to this case is that there is an

unusual mystery within a mystery. A decade after Connie went missing, police received an

anonymous letter claiming that Connie was an unidentified murder victim known as Little Miss X,

whose skeletal remains were found in Arizona in 1958. You think that proving or disproving that

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