The Trail Went Cold - Episode 144 - Sydney Land & Neo Kaufmann

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

October 27, 2016. Las Vegas, Nevada. 21-year old Sydney Land and her 20-year old boyfriend, Nehemiah “Neo” Kaufmann, are found shot to death inside Sydney’s apartment. The prime suspect is an alleged pimp named Shane Valentine, who had threatened the couple and fired a bullet into the home of Neo’s mother weeks earlier. Allegations eventually emerge that whoever committed the murders might be tied to a scandal involving police corruption and sex trafficking, and that a cover-up has been orchestrated to prevent the crime from being solved. This episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a convoluted case which was requested to us by Sydney’s mother, Connie Land, who is still seeking justice for her daughter’s murder. This episode of “The Trail Went Cold” is sponsored by Native. Native makes safe, simple, effective products that people use in the bathroom everyday with trusted ingredients and trusted performance. For 20% off your first purchase, please visit nativedeodorant.com and enter the promo code “cold” during checkout. Additional Reading: https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/who-killed-my-daughter/2019/06/07 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/nevada-supreme-court-ruling-judge-melanie-andress-tobiasson-wins-round-one/2019/05/14 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-judge-melanie-andress-tobiasson-vice-detectives-wanted-me-and-my-daughter-dead/2019/04/01 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/why-is-the-las-vegas-media-silent-on-judge-melanie-andress-tobiasson/2019/03/15 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-judges-statement-to-judicial-investigator-about-klas-tv-interview-conflicts-with-statement-made-to-the-baltimore-post-examiner/2019/03/01 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-judge-melanie-andress-tobiasson-says-she-threatened-suspect-in-unsolved-murders-then-kicked-in-his-door/2019/02/26 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/fbi-agents-behavior-during-las-vegas-corruption-probe-led-to-inquiry/2019/02/24 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-detective-calls-baltimore-post-examiner-story-on-unsolved-murders-filth-and-filled-with-lies/2019/02/21 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/exclusive-witness-claims-las-vegas-judge-melanie-andress-tobiasson-offered-her-a-bribe-to-implicate-innocent-man-in-unsolved-murder-case/2019/02/18 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/did-las-vegas-d-a-steve-wolfson-and-sheriff-joe-lombardo-cover-up-corruption/2019/02/09 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-sex-trafficker-who-is-suspect-in-unsolved-double-homicide-threatened-victims-weeks-before-the-murders/2019/02/04 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-judge-melanie-andress-tobiasson-who-exposed-police-corruption-faces-constant-retaliation/2019/01/25 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/judge-claims-fbi-refused-information-on-police-corruption-probe-after-pressure-from-lvmpd/2019/01/21 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/exclusive-affidavits-provide-insight-las-vegas-fbi-corruption-probe-las-vegas-metro-police-department/2018/05/19 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/whos-running-fbi-las-vegas-division-las-vegas-metro-police-department-fbi/2018/05/17 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-police-department-tells-fbi-stop-talking-judge-corruption/2018/05/15 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/not-special-special-prosecutor-gives-convicted-las-vegas-pimp-sweetheart-deal/2018/05/15 https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-sex-trafficker-prison-life-may-released-amidst-police-corruption-probe/2018/05/13 https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2018/06/07/plea-deal-raises-questions-about-ties-between-cops-and-pimps/ https://lasvegassun.com/news/2018/oct/26/2-years-later-mother-presses-for-break-in-case-of/ http://news3lv.com/news/local/a-new-break-and-a-familiar-person-of-interest-in-young-couples-murder “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

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0:00.0	We would like to send it a special thanks to Native for supporting the trail went cold.
0:04.3	Native makes safe, simple, effective products that people use in the bathroom every day with
0:09.2	trusted ingredients and trusted performance. For 20% off your first purchase, please visit
0:14.8	Native deodorant.com and enter the promo code cold during checkout.
0:20.0	That's Native deodorant.com and the promo code is cold.
0:23.7	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:25.6	October 27th
0:28.2	2016
0:30.2	Las Vegas, Nevada.
0:33.0	21-year-old Sydney Land and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Nia Nia Kofman, are found shot to death inside
0:40.8	Sydney's apartment. An alleged pimp named Shame Valentine is a person of interest
0:46.0	as he had threatened a couple and fired a bullet into the home of Neo's mother weeks earlier.
0:52.0	Allegations eventually emerged that Sydney and Neo's murderer might be tied to a scandal involving police corruption and sex trafficking and that a cover-up has been orchestrated to prevent this crime from being solved.
1:05.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
1:15.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:18.0	uh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, okay. Hello everyone and welcome to a very special episode of The Trail went cold.
1:48.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to explore a particularly horrific crime, the 2016 murders of
1:55.6	Sydney Land and Neo Kaufman. This story is being covered at the request of Sydney's mother,
2:01.3	Connie Land, who has spent the last three years fighting diligently to keep the case in the spotlight.
2:07.0	I first met Connie at CrimeCon back in June of this year, when she came up to my booth on Podcast Row and handed me a booklet containing all the details of her daughter's story.
2:18.0	She was handing out these booklets to a number of people at the event in order to spread awareness and the case has already
2:24.3	been featured on multiple true crime podcasts. It took me a while to start researching
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