The Trail Went Cold – Episode 138 – Doyle Wheeler

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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April 19, 1988. Suncrest, Washington. 36-year old Doyle Wheeler, a former police officer from the San Diego Police Department, is attacked inside his home by a group of armed intruders. They force Wheeler to write a suicide note at gunpoint, hog-tie him, and fire a shot which grazes the side of his head, but he […]

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0:26.5	April 19th, 1988
0:30.3	Suncrest, Washington
0:32.8	36-year-old Doyle Wheeler, a former police officer from the San Diego Police Department,
0:38.1	is attacked inside his home by a group of armed intruders.
0:41.7	They force Wheeler to write a suicide note at gunpoint, hogtie him, and fire a shot which graces
0:47.3	the side of his head, but he winds up surviving the attack.
0:51.2	Evidence seems to link the intruders to another San Diego police officer named Donovan Jacobs,
0:56.3	whom Wheeler had testified against in a previous murder trial.
1:00.1	While Wheeler suspects Jacobs of orchestrating the attempt on his life,
1:03.9	Jacobs believes the incident never even happened,
1:06.6	and accuses Wheeler of fabricating the entire story in order to set him up,
1:11.0	but the truth about what actually happened remains unknown.
1:14.7	After that, the trail went cold.
1:30.0	The trail went cold.
1:33.3	I'm your host Robin Warder, and we're going to be doing some
1:59.9	something a little different from the norm on today's episode.
2:02.9	Instead of exploring an unsolved murder or missing persons case,
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