The Trail Went Cold - Episode 136 - Deanna Cremin & Melanie Melanson

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

March 29, 1995. Somerville, Massachusetts. 17-year old Deanna Cremin spends the evening with her boyfriend, Tommy LeBlanc, but fails to return home. The following morning, Deanna’s body is found behind a senior housing complex and she has been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. According to Tommy, he had walked Deanna halfway to her house before turning around and heading back home, but he denies any involvement in her murder. While Tommy and two other individuals are looked at as persons of interest, no one is ever charged with the crime. October 27, 1989. Woburn, Massachusetts. 14-year old Melanie Melanson tells her grandmother that she is planning to sleep over at her next-door neighbour’s house. When Melanie fails to return home the following day, her family learns that she actually sneaked away to attend a party in a wooded area on the outskirts of town. Two older boys are named as the last people seen with Melanie, but they give conflicting stories about what happened to her. While investigators are certain that something happened to Melanie at the party, no trace of her is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we cover two unsolved cold cases involving teenage girls which took place in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Deanna_Cremin https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2015/03/29/20-years-without-deanna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Melanson http://charleyproject.org/case/melanie-jo-melanson “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	March 29th, 1995.
0:03.4	Somerville, Massachusetts.
0:06.0	17 year old Deanna Kremen spends the evening with her boyfriend Tommy LeBlanc, but fails
0:10.9	to return home.
0:12.4	The following morning, Deanna's body is found behind a senior housing complex and she has been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.
0:20.0	According to Tommy, he had walked Deanna halfway to her house before turning around and heading back home and denies any involvement in her murder.
0:29.0	While Tommy and two other individuals are looked at as persons of interest, no one is ever charged with the crime.
0:36.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:43.0	Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
0:45.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh,
0:54.0	uh,
0:55.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:17.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering two separate cold cases,
1:22.0	the 1995 Murder of Deanna Kremen and the 1989
1:26.2	disappearance of Melanie Melanson.
1:29.2	Over the past few years, I have received requests to cover both these cases, so I decided to combine them into a single episode,
1:36.0	because while the cases aren't officially connected, there are a number of similarities.
1:41.0	Both of the victims were teenage girls who lived in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and separate towns located less than 10 miles away from each other.
1:49.0	In each case, the last known person to have seen the victim alive was a young male companion who would come under suspicion.
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