August 18, 2010, Laduk County, Alberta. While staying with her infant son and a friend at a motel,

20-year-old Amber Tuckero decides to hitchhike to Edmonton, she never returns.

And two years later, Amber's skeletal remains are discovered in a farmer's field.

Police release audio of a recording from Amber's cell phone in which she can be heard

conversing with a male driver on the very night of her disappearance. She's fearful he's taking

her to a remote area. And despite a public plea for information, the man's voice was never

positively identified. After that, the trail went cold.

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

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we are going to be covering two cold cases from my

home country of Canada, the 2010 disappearance and murder of Amber Tuckero, and the 2011 murder of

Joleen Cote. 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. These two cases took place just over one year apart

and relatively close proximity to the city of Edmonton, the capital of the province of Alberta.

The idea for this episode came about when Kelly Campbell, one of the previous winners of our

trail went cold listener voiceover contest, requested I cover the Joleen Cote murder.

However, since the Royal Canadian Mount Police has been very secretive about many details of

the investigation, the case probably does not have enough material for an entire episode.

So my solution was to combine Joleen's story with the murder of Amber Tuckero, a young

indigenous woman who went missing in 2010 before her skeletal remains were discovered two years later.

As you might know, the mishandling of cases involving missing and murdered indigenous women

is a major issue up here in Canada and Amber's story was no exception.

...