The Trail Went Cold - Episode 114 - Henry Baltimore Jr. and Oliver Munson

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

May 30, 1973. East Lansing, Michigan. The sister of 21-year old university student Henry Baltimore Jr. goes to meet him at his apartment, but discovers he is not there and eventually reports him missing. Nearly three months earlier, a pair of attackers had broken into Henry’s apartment to assault and rob him and police arrested a suspect named Roy Davis. After Henry testified against Davis at his preliminary hearing, Davis allegedly threatened him and Henry would go missing two days before Davis’ arraignment. February 13, 1984. Catonsville, Maryland. 39-year old teacher Oliver Munson leaves his home to drive to school, but never arrives. Oliver’s abandoned car is soon discovered a few blocks away and two weeks later, a stolen vehicle is found containing evidence which suggests that Oliver was murdered. One year earlier, Oliver had unknowingly purchased a stolen car from a career criminal Dennis Watson. After Watson was arrested, Oliver was called upon to testify as a witness against him and his disappearance took place only three days before Watson’s trial. This week, we will be presenting a special double feature episode of “The Trail Went Cold” about two unsolved missing persons cases where the victim vanished shortly before they were scheduled to testify in a criminal case. Special thanks to listener Ryan Eichenfeldt for providing the opening narration on today’s episode. This episode of “The Trail Went Cold” is brought to you by “Murder Book”, a new true crime podcast hosted by bestselling author Michael Connelly, available on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/henry-louis-baltimore-jr https://www.mlive.com/living/jackson/2010/05/peek_through_time_more_than_30.html https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2014/11/family_pleads_for_answers_in_1.html https://unsolved.com/gallery/oliver-munson/ http://charleyproject.org/case/oliver-wendell-munson http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-10-07/news/1993280074_1_munson-ellicott-city-middle “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	This episode of The Trail Went Cold is brought to you by Murderbook, a new true crime
0:04.2	podcast hosted by best-selling author Michael Connolly, available on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:10.8	Also be sure to check out Dark Sacred Night, Michael Connolly's latest number one bestseller featuring detectives Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard.
0:19.0	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:21.0	May 30th, 1973. the sister of 21-year-old university student Henry Baltimore
0:30.4	Jr. goes to meet him at his apartment but discovers he is not there and Henry is soon reported missing.
0:36.7	Nearly three months earlier a pair of attackers had broken into Henry's apartment to assault and rob him
0:45.3	when police arrested a suspect named Roy Davis, Henry testified against him in his preliminary hearing. Even though Davis
0:49.8	allegedly threatened Henry and his disappearance took place only two days before Davis's arraignment.
0:55.0	There is no evidence to implicate anyone and Henry is never found.
1:00.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, but, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:25.0	uh, uh,
1:27.0	uh,
1:28.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:42.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering two
1:45.7	unsolved missing persons cases, the 1973 disappearance of Henry Baltimore Jr. and the 1984 disappearance of Oliver Munson.
1:55.0	That voice you just heard narrator opening was Ryan Eichenfeld, a previous winner of
2:00.0	our Trailwent Cold listener voiceover contest. I originally picked Ryan's name as a winner back in October
2:06.5	to do some narration on our Halloween episode, but since there were issues with his email,
2:11.4	I couldn't get a hold of them until recently, so I thought I'd give him the opportunity to narrate this episode.
2:17.0	Anyway, it's been a while since the trail went cold in one of its two-for-one episodes, in which I explore two separate cases and even though these
2:25.3	particular cases aren't connected, they share some eerie similarities.
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