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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 119 – Lindsey Baum

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

June 26, 2009. McCleary, Washington. After stopping by a friend’s house, 10-year old Lindsey Baum leaves to walk home. Even though her trip should have only taken ten minutes, Lindsey never arrives and is soon reported missing, but a massive search effort fails to turn up any trace of her. Eight years later, skeletal remains […]

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0:00.0

June 26, 2009.

0:03.6

McCleary, Washington. After stopping by a friend's house, 10-year-old Lindsay

0:09.0

bomb leaves to make her 10-minute walk home. Lindsay never arrives and is soon reported missing,

0:15.0

but a massive search effort fails to turn up any trace of her.

0:18.6

Eight years later, skeletal remains are discovered in a remote area over 150 miles away,

0:24.5

and DNA testing eventually matches them to Lindsay.

0:28.4

Even though the investigation turns up a couple persons of interest,

0:32.0

including two local residents who provided false information about their alibis on the night

0:36.5

Lindsay went missing, no one has ever been charged with her murder. After that, the trail went cold.

0:58.0

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

1:22.8

I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got a pretty sad and heartbreaking story to cover today.

1:28.3

The 2009 disappearance and death of Lindsay bomb. Lindsay was a 10-year-old girl who went missing

1:35.2

one night on what should have been an uneventful 10-minute walk back to her house. This would become

1:40.4

one of the most heavily discussed missing children's cases of the past decade until skeletal

1:45.4

remains belonging to Lindsay were discovered in a remote area eight years later, and she was

1:50.8

positively identified in May of 2018. I have received numerous requests from listeners to cover

1:57.1

this case, both before and after Lindsay's remains were found. Everyone was hoping this

2:02.9

development would soon lead to the case being solved, but here we are nearly one year later,

2:08.2

and we still don't know who was responsible for her abduction and murder. Over the years,

2:13.4

there have been a couple persons of interest who have done suspicious things to capture the authorities

2:18.0

attention, but thus far, no direct evidence has been found to arrest anyone. Surprisingly,

2:24.8

even though this is a highly publicized case, the only time I've seen it covered on a podcast

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