The Trail Went Cold - Episode 115 - Joey Lynn Offutt

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

July 12, 2007. Sykesville, Pennsylvania. The fire department shows up at the burning home of 33-year old Joey Lynn Offutt. The body of her six-week old infant son, Alexis Alfred Borden III, is found in the bathtub, but Joey herself is nowhere to be found. Three days later, Joey’s abandoned car is discovered over 60 miles away at an apartment complex in State College where she had previously lived. It turns out that no one can actually confirm having seen Joey or her son in the week prior to the fire. Could Joey have been responsible for her child’s death before she went on the run? Or were they both murdered by an unknown perpetrator who disposed of Joey’s body? We shall explore all the different angles of a truly perplexing missing persons case on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/joey-lynn-offutt https://wjactv.com/news/local/search-for-missing-sykesville-woman-continues-9-years-after-disppearance http://www.thecourierexpress.com/jeffersonian_democrat/news/local/missing-sykesville-woman-declared-dead/article_d043e190-17db-5982-8c87-45059dade0ca.html http://www.findjoey.org/ “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing on podcast row at CrimeCon 2019 from June 7th-9th at the Hilton Riverside hotel in New Orleans. Listeners can receive a 10% discount on the purchase of a standard badge by using the promo code “COLD19”. “The Trail Went Cold” will also be appearing at True Crime Podcast Festival 2019 on July 13th at the Marriott Downtown in Chicago. Please visit their website for more details. “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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0:46.2	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:49.0	July 12, 2007
0:53.2	Pansylvania
0:55.9	The fire department shows up at the burning home of 33-year-old Joey Lynn Offit.
1:00.6	The body of her six-week-old infant son is found in the bathtub, but Joey herself is nowhere to be found.
1:06.9	Three days later, Joey's abandoned car is discovered over 60 miles away at an apartment complex where she had previously lived.
1:14.6	It turns out that no one can confirm having seen Joey in the week prior to her disappearance,
1:19.7	while there is initial speculation that she might have killed her child and gone on the run.
1:24.2	No trace of her is ever found.
1:26.7	After that, the trail went cold.
1:49.6	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
2:08.1	I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got a very odd missing person's case to cover today, the 2007 disappearance of Joey Lynn Offit.
2:17.4	This case was originally requested to me last year by a listener named Sam and I've been hoping to cover it for a long time.
2:24.4	I first learned about this story when it was featured on a 2012 episode of the TV show Disappeared,
2:30.6	and even though this isn't one of the most well-known missing person's cases to be featured on that program, it's certainly one of the most bizarre.
2:37.9	There are technically two victims in this story, as Joey was discovered to be missing after her house caught on fire in the middle of the night,
2:44.9	and the remains of her six-week-old son Lex were found in the bathtub.
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