The Trail Went Cold - Episode 141 - David Bocks

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

June 19, 1984. Fernald, Ohio. 39-year old Dave Bocks shows up to work the graveyard shift at the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center, a plant which processes uranium for nuclear weapons. Dave vanishes before his shift ends and evidence soon emerges that he fell into some molten liquid inside one of the plant’s furnaces. The authorities initially suspect that Dave could have committed suicide and find no evidence of foul play, but months later, the plant is implicated in a major scandal involving radioactive contamination, leading to speculation that Dave was murdered for threatening to blow the whistle on unsafe practices at his workplace. Did Dave Bocks jump or accidentally fall to his death inside a 1,300-degree furnace? Or did someone kill him and intentionally place his body in there? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles the controversial story of a plant which endangered a farming community and the unexplained death of one of its workers. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/dave-bocks/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Dave_Bocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernald_Feed_Materials_Production_Center “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	June 19th.
0:01.6	1984.
0:03.4	Fernold Ohio.
0:05.6	39 year old Dave Box shows up to work the overnight shift at the Fernold Feed Materials
0:10.4	Production Center, a plant which processes uranium for nuclear weapons.
0:15.0	Dave vanishes before his shift ends, and evidence soon emerges that he fell into
0:19.6	some molten liquid inside one of the plant plants furnaces.
0:23.0	While the authorities initially suspect that Dave committed suicide,
0:27.0	the plant is soon hit with a major scandal involving radioactive contamination,
0:31.0	leading to speculation that Dave was murdered for
0:34.4	threatening to blow the whistle on his workplaces unsafe practices.
0:38.7	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, okay.
1:07.0	Oh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:19.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering one of my most in-demand
1:24.4	unsolved mysteries cases, the 1984 death of Dave Box.
1:29.9	As you can imagine, I have received a ton of requests to cover this story since the inception of the podcast, as it's one of the more harrowing cases unsolved mysteries ever presented.
1:40.0	It involves a man named Dave Box, who vanished while working the graveyard shift at a plant which processed nuclear material,
1:47.0	though the general public was not aware of that fact at the time.
1:51.0	Bone fragments and personal items belonging to Dave were soon found inside
1:56.0	the molten liquid of one of the plant's furnaces, meaning that he suffered one of the most horrifying deaths imaginable.
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