The Trail Went Cold - Episode 130 - Tara Breckenridge

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

August 4, 1992. Houston, Texas. While working her shift as a waitress at a strip club, 23-year old Tara Breckenridge volunteers to go home early. Tara leaves at around 12:30 AM, but when she fails to return to her apartment by morning, Tara’s boyfriend, Wayne Hecker, goes searching for her. Wayne soon discovers Tara’s abandoned car next to a freeway and the vehicle’s alternator belt is missing. Wayne becomes a potential suspect, as his relationship with Tara was troubled and he has a shaky alibi during the approximate time period Tara went missing, but there is no evidence implicate anyone. Was Wayne actually responsible for Tara’s disappearance? Or could she have been victimized by one of her patrons at the strip club? We shall explore all the different theories, as we cover a baffling missing persons case on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/tara-breckenridge/ http://charleyproject.org/case/tara-suzette-breckenridge https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/She-left-work-25-years-ago-then-disappeared-10925781.php “The Trail Went Cold” will 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 will be appearing at the event, “True Crime Podcasts: Live in Toronto”, being held at the Royal Cinema in Toronto on Sunday, August 18. For more information and to purchase tickets to the event, please visit this website. “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 4th, 1992, Houston, Texas.
0:05.0	While working her shift as a waitress at a strip club,
0:09.0	23-year-old Tara Breckenridge,
0:12.0	volunteers to go home early shortly after midnight.
0:15.6	When she fails to return to her apartment by morning, Tara's boyfriend Wayne Hacker
0:22.0	go searching for her.
0:25.0	Wayne soon discovers Tara's abandoned car next to a freeway,
0:29.2	and the vehicle's alternator belt is missing. Since their relationship was troubled and he has a
0:35.8	shaky alibi during the time period terror disappeared, Wayne becomes a
0:40.9	potential suspect. However, there is no evidence to implicate anyone,
0:46.8	and terror remains a missing person. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh,
1:14.0	uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:15.0	uh, uh, uh,
1:18.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, How do you respond to the charge that Wayne Hecker had something to do with Tarr's
1:36.0	disappearance?
1:37.0	To tell you the truth, I don't know an explanation to anybody but the Lord and the Lord has given me, you know,
1:47.0	he's, I'm waiting, I'm waiting to hear something and it's from him.
1:50.5	I can't, I can't answer anybody because there's not an answer that I have only
1:55.8	he has it and and until there is an answer I don't think anybody will be satisfied and I might be pinpointed for the rest of my life and I mean there's nothing
2:05.7	I can do about that.
2:06.7	There's a lot of people that have said things, made a lot of derogatory statements and
2:10.7	and that's I can't help him.
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