September 13th 1991.

Burbank, California.

37-year-old Tom Roach makes plans to meet his spouse, Barbara Rondo, for lunch,

but never shows up. And when Barbara returns home, she discovers that Tom is missing.

Six days later, Barbara receives an envelope containing some of Tom's personal items,

along with an anonymous confession letter to his murder.

While there is some speculation that Tom staged his own disappearance,

his skeletal remains are eventually discovered in a remote area 500 miles away.

Tom's cause of death is determined to be a gunshot wound, but the circumstances of how he wound

up dead, as well as the identity of the letter-writer remain unknown. After that, the trail went cold.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and we've got a pretty mysterious cold case to cover today.

The unexplained 1991 death of Tom Roach. This story was featured on an episode of Unsolved

Mysteries, and I consider it to be one of the more underrated segments featured on the show.

It doesn't get as much discussion as some of their other Unsolved cases, but I think it's a real

puzzler. Tom Roach was a motorcycle enthusiast who seemed to have an idea life, as he was living with

his girlfriend of 16 years, and was days away from starting a new job he seemed really excited about

before he inexplicably went missing. Even though Tom spout soon received an anonymous letter from

someone confessing to his murder, there was some speculation that this may have been a hoax,

as one witness claimed to have seen Tom alive the day after he disappeared. While Tom's skeletal

remains were discovered hundreds of miles away, and the circumstances of his death do suggest foul

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