The Trail Went Cold - Episode 121 - Glen & Bessie Hyde

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

November 15, 1928. Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. 29-year old Glen Hyde and his 22- year old wife, Bessie, decide to spend their honeymoon taking a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon down the rapids of the Colorado River and hope to attain a new speed record. Shortly after stopping at the home of a photographer named Emery Kolb, the Hydes vanish without a trace. Their empty boat is eventually discovered on the river nearly 150 miles away with all of the couple’s supplies and possessions onboard, but Glen and Bessie are nowhere to be found. Over the next several decades, there would be a number of surprising twists, including a woman who claimed to be Bessie Hyde and the discovery of an unidentified male skeleton in Emery Kolb’s boathouse. Did Glen and Bessie Hyde drown in the Colorado River, or was something a lot more sinister behind their disappearances? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles the Grand Canyon’s most famous mystery, which has remained unsolved for nearly a century. Special thanks to listener Colin Zavitz for providing the opening narration on today’s episode. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Glen_and_Bessie_Hyde http://charleyproject.org/case/glen-rollin-hyde http://charleyproject.org/case/bessie-louise-haley-hyde “Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde” by Brad Dimock “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	November 15th, 1928, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona.
0:07.0	29-year-old Glenn Hyde and his 22-year-old wife Bessie decide to spend their honeymoon taking a rafting trip down the rapids of the Colorado River.
0:19.0	Shortly after stopping at the home of a photographer named Emory Cold.
0:23.3	The hides vanish without a trace, and their empty boat is discovered in the river over one
0:28.8	month later.
0:30.3	Over the next several decades, there would be a number of twists, including a woman who claimed to be Bessie Hyde,
0:37.0	and the discovery of an unidentified male skeleton in Emory Colb's boat house, but no trace of Glen or Bessie is ever found.
0:48.1	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm going to.
1:03.0	Oh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, okay, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:31.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be traveling back 90 years to cover a mystery
1:36.6	which took place in the Grand Canyon, the 1928 Disappearances of Glen and Bessie Hyde.
1:43.0	That voice should narrate our opening was Colin Zavitz, the latest winner of our Trail went
1:48.1	cold listener voiceover contest, and you did a tremendous job job so thank you very much Colin
1:53.7	Anyway if you're an Unsaw Mysteries fan you're probably familiar with this story as it was featured on the very first episode of the show hosted by Robert Stack
2:05.4	Last month I recorded an audio commentary track over that episode as a bonus reward on Patreon for our Tier 3
2:10.2	patrons and as I was doing it my first thought was why haven't I done a
2:15.1	podcast episode about this story yet? Len and Bessie Hyde were a newlywed
2:19.7	couple who decided to take a very adventurous honeymoon by embarking on a lengthy whitewater rafting trip through the Grand Canyon along the Colorado River and they hope to find fame by achieving a new speed record.
2:32.0	But they would eventually go missing, and even though the couple's empty boat was found completely intact, with all their supplies still on board, Glenn and Bessie had seemingly vanished into thin air.
2:44.0	This story has become a pretty legendary unsolved disappearance with a number of twists and turns,
2:49.7	and even contains a compelling mystery within a mystery as a skeleton initially believed to be
2:55.0	glen-Hyde would be found on the property of one of the last people
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