The Trail Went Cold - Episode 120 - Amber Tuccaro & Jolene Cote

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

August 18, 2010. Leduc County, Alberta. While staying with her infant son and a friend at a motel, 20-year old Amber Tuccaro decides to hitchhike to Edmonton. She never returns and is subsequently reported missing. Two years later, police release audio of a recording from Amber’s cell phone in which she can be heard conversing with a male driver on the night of her disappearance. Amber expresses fear that this man is taking her to a remote area and it seems likely she was murdered shortly after the call ended. Within days, Amber’s skeletal remains are discovered in a farmer’s field, but the voice of the male driver is never positively identified. October 12, 2011. Parkland County, Alberta. After spending the night playing in a soccer tournament, 36-year old wife and mother Jolene Cote stops to make some purchase at Wal-Mart before heading home. The following morning, Jolene’s husband wakes up and discovers her body on the grass outside their rural home, and it becomes apparent that she was attacked shortly after pulling into the driveway. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police remains very secretive about many aspects of this investigation, but express their belief that Jolene was not a randomly targeted victim. Listen to "The Secret Room" podcast, hosted by Ben Hamm. Special thanks to Ben for providing the opening narration on today’s episode, which covers two unsolved cold cases from Alberta. Additional Reading: https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/amber-alyssa-tuccaro https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/amber-tuccaro-s-unsolved-murder-do-you-recognize-this-voice-1.3102635 http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ab/community-communaute/historical-homicide-groupe-non-resolues/amber-tuccaro-eng.htm https://globalnews.ca/tag/jolene-cote/ https://country105.com/news/204299/timeline-the-jolene-cote-murder-investigation/ “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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0:00.0	August 18th, 2010, Leduc County, Alberta.
0:03.9	While staying with her infant son and a friend at a motel, 20-year-old Amber Tuckero decides to hitchhike
0:09.3	to Edmonton.
0:10.6	She never returns.
0:12.3	And two years later, Amber's skeletal remains are discovered in a farmer's field.
0:17.0	Police release audio of a recording from Amber's cell phone
0:20.0	in which she can be heard conversing with a male driver on the very night of her disappearance.
0:25.2	She's fearful he's taking her to a remote area.
0:28.2	And despite a public plea for information, the man's voice was never positively identified.
0:34.7	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:16.2	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we are going to be covering two cold cases
1:21.2	from my home country of Canada, the 2010 disappearance and
1:25.6	murder of Amber Tuckero and the 2011 murder of Jolene Coate.
1:30.3	That voice you just heard narrate our intro was Ben Ham, the host of a podcast called The Secret Room, and stay tuned because I will be providing more information about this show and playing a promo for it later this episode.
1:43.8	These two cases took place just over one year apart in relatively close proximity to the
1:48.6	city of Edmonton, the capital of the province of Alberta. The idea for this episode came about when
1:54.7	Kelly Campbell, one of the previous winners of our Trauent Cold listener voiceover contest,
2:00.3	requested I cover the Jolene Koté murder.
2:03.0	However, since the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been very secretive about many details of the investigation,
2:09.0	the case probably does not have enough material for an entire episode.
2:13.9	So my solution was to combine Jolene's story with the murder of Amber Tuckero, a young indigenous
2:19.5	woman who went missing in 2010 before her skeletal remains were discovered two years later.
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