The Trail Went Cold - Episode 134 - Louise and Charmian Faulkner

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

April 26, 1980. St. Kilda, Australia. 43-year old Louise Faulkner and her two-year old daughter, Charmian Faulkner, are seen climbing into a car driven by an older man. Louise had told a neighbour she was planning to visit her boyfriend at his farm, but she does not return and both Louise and her daughter are reported missing. The investigation eventually focuses on George Sutherland, a married man who had been carrying on an affair with Louise and is believed to be Charmian’s biological father. 26 years later, the media receives an anonymous letter from someone who claims they heard George confess to Louise and Charmian’s murders. This leads to a coronial inquest, but in the end, there is not enough evidence to implicate George and neither of the two victims are found. “The Trail Went Cold” is going back down under this week for an episode which explores one of the infamous missing persons cases in Australian history. Special thanks to listener Mel Badger for providing the opening narration for this episode. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Louise_and_Charmian_Faulkner https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/7375411 https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/letter-points-finger/news-story/6700035701279d7570932a49fc193b3c “Badlands: Australia’s 13 Most Intriguing True Murders” by Liam Houlihan “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the Ottawa Podcast Festival, being held at the “LIVE! on Elgin” venue in Ottawa, Ontario on Saturday, August 24. For more information and to purchase tickets to the event, please visit their website (https://www.ottawapodcastfestival.com). 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	Hi everyone, before we begin the episode, I have a quick announcement to make.
0:04.1	I'm actually going to be doing another live show in the near future as the Trail Went Cold has been invited to
0:09.3	participate in the Ottawa Podcast Festival, which is taking place on Saturday, August 24th, in my hometown of
0:16.4	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It's an all-day event starting at 1 p.m. which is going to be featuring
0:22.0	shows from a number of podcasts from the area, and the
0:25.0	Trail went cold show has been scheduled for the 730 to 830 PM slot that night.
0:30.8	The event is taking place at the live on Elgin venue and tickets are only $20 each for the entire day.
0:37.0	To purchase tickets or to learn more information, please visit Ottawa Podcast Festival.com and we've also got a link to the website in our episode
0:45.6	description. Once again, it's taking place next month on August the 24th, and we hope to see some of you
0:52.0	folks there.
0:53.0	Enjoy the episode.
0:55.0	April 26th, 1980.
0:58.0	St. Kilda Australia.
1:00.0	43 year old Louise Faulkner and her two year old old
1:03.9	old daughter, Charmian Faulkner, are seen climbing into a car driven by an older man.
1:09.2	Louise told a neighbor she was planning to visit her boyfriend at his farm, but she does not return,
1:16.0	in both Louise and her daughter are reported missing.
1:19.8	The investigation eventually focuses on George Sutherland, a married man who had been carrying on an affair with Louise for years, and is believed to be Charmian's biological father.
1:31.0	Even though there are a number of reasons to suspect George, he denies any
1:35.7	involvement in the disappearances. And Louise and Charmian are never found. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
2:04.0	uh, uh,
2:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
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