The Trail Went Cold - Episode 137 - Clifford Sherwood & George Gumbly

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

October 21, 1954. Verdun, Quebec. Nine-year old Clifford Sherwood leaves for school and meets up with his 12-year old friend, George Gumbly. The two boys never arrive at school or return home and are subsequently reported missing. Clifford’s mother, Frances Sherwood, believes that her abusive ex-husband, Nephi “Tex” Sherwood, abducted Clifford and took him across the country to British Columbia, but there is no evidence to implicate him. When Tex passes away three decades later, his family discovers that he had been living under a false identity and led a secret double life, furthering their belief that Tex raised Clifford under a new identity and giving them hope that Clifford might still be alive somewhere. But if Clifford was abducted by his father, what happened to George Gumbly? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a truly bizarre mystery which is considered to be the oldest registered missing children’s case in the history of Canada. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Clifford_Sherwood http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/208dmqc.html “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. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Click here to listen to the podcast on Stitcher. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Music. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on Spotify. 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	October 21st, 1954.
0:03.8	Verdon, Quebec.
0:05.7	Nine year old Clifford Churwood leaves for school, but never arrives and returns home, and it turns
0:10.8	out that he met up with a 12 year old friend named George Gumbly, who has also gone missing.
0:16.0	Clifford's mother, Francis Sherwood, believes that her abusive ex-husband, Nephi-Tex Sherwood, abducted Clifford and took him to British Columbia, but there is no evidence to implicate him.
0:26.8	When Tex passes away three decades later, it turns out that he had been living under a false identity and led a secret double life.
0:34.4	Well this creates speculation that he may have raised Clifford under a new identity,
0:38.7	no trace of Clifford or George is ever found. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, but uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh,
1:05.0	so and uh,
1:06.0	uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:24.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I'm going to be exploring the oldest
1:28.4	registered missing children's case from my home country of Canada, the 1954
1:33.3	Disappearances of Clifford Sherwood and George Gumbly.
1:37.0	I've received numerous requests to cover this story by multiple
1:40.1	listeners over the years and since I'm going to be participating in a pair of live
1:44.1	shows in Toronto and Ottawa these next two weeks I thought now would be an ideal
1:49.3	time to do an episode about a Canadian cold case which is pretty close to home for me.
1:54.0	Since Clifford's mother, Francis Sherwood, was a major advocate for Canada's
1:58.6	missing children's network and kept his case in the spotlight for several decades, I distinctly remember seeing Clifford's missing poster in public for years during my childhood,
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