The Trail Went Cold - Episode 146 - Janett Christman

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

March 18, 1950. Columbia, Missouri. 13-year old Janett Christman shows up at a married couple’s residence to spend the evening babysitting their child. When the couple returns home, they discover that Janett has been raped and strangled to death by an intruder, and the local sheriff’s department would report having received a phone call from Janett while she was being attacked. The investigation uncovers a promising suspect named Robert Mueller, whom Janett had also babysat for, but there is not enough evidence to make an arrest. Four years earlier, another young Columbia woman was murdered in a strikingly similar fashion and a suspect went to the gas chamber for the crime. But could an innocent man have been executed while the real killer went on to murder Janett Christman? On this week’s Halloween-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a creepy unsolved crime which inspired an infamous urban legend. Additional Reading: https://www.columbiatribune.com/article/20100307/News/303079884 https://web.archive.org/web/20180412110956/https://insidecolumbia.net/2015/10/01/who-killed-janett-christman/ “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 18th, 1950.
0:03.4	Columbia, Missouri.
0:05.9	13-year-old Jeanette Crisman shows up at a married couple's house to spend the evening babysitting
0:10.6	their child.
0:11.9	When the couple returns home, they discover that
0:14.2	Jeunette has been raped and strangled to death by an intruder, and the Sheriff's
0:18.1	Department report having received a phone call from Jeunette while she was
0:21.8	being attacked. The investigation
0:24.2	uncovers a promising suspect named Robert Mueller whom Jeanette had also
0:28.2	babysat for, but police lack the evidence to make an arrest and the murder officially remains unsolved.
0:35.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
0:45.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'm not.
0:55.0	Oh, uh, and uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I see, uh,
1:04.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest Halloween themed episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:20.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to explore a story which seems like something straight out of a horror movie
1:26.4	The 1950 Murder of Jeanette Chrisman
1:29.8	Since we are now in October our last few episodes of the month are going to feature cases which either occurred on Halloween or have some sort of creepy Halloween slant to them.
1:40.0	You might be familiar with the urban legend known as the babysitter and the man upstairs.
1:45.0	It involves a teenage babysitter who was looking after some children whom she is just put to bed,
1:50.0	when she receives a series of creepy anonymous phone calls from a man who keeps
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