The Trail Went Cold - Episode 148 - Joan Gay Croft

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

April 9, 1947. Woodward, Oklahoma. Four-year old Joan Gay Croft is taken to the local hospital after an F5 tornado devastates her hometown and takes the lives of over 100 people, including her mother. While Joan Gay and her half-sister are recovering from injuries in the basement, two men show up and take her away. They claim that they are taking Joan Gay to another hospital to see her family, but she is never seen again. Over the next several decades, there would be a number of odd developments, including an anonymous E-mailer claiming to be Joan Gay. Did Joan Gay Croft go on living her life under a new identity? If so, who were the two unidentified men who took her? Could she still be alive today? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a truly baffling mystery surrounding one of the worst tornados in history. This episode of “The Trail Went Cold” is sponsored by Native. For 20% off your first purchase, please visit nativedeodorant.com and enter the promo code “cold” during checkout. Additional Reading: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2557dfok.html https://newsok.com/article/2468875/dna-test-may-solve-47-year-old-woodward-mystery-woman-believes-shes-joan-gay-croft http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/woodward-mystery-believed-solved/article_0fb79ae6-33a1-5c44-9938-f9559581419e.html http://newsok.com/where-is-mystery-woman-connected-to-1947-woodward-tornado/article/3666941 https://newsok.com/article/2609396/woman-seeks-cousin-lost-after-tornado https://www.enidnews.com/opinion/after-years-joan-croft-still-a-mystery/article_9eefe3d7-1ca3-5af8-a438-efe4e2d71ea9.html http://kfor.com/2016/05/05/search-still-on-for-woodward-5-year-old-who-vanished-after-tornado-69-years-ago/ “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	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.
0:11.7	For 20% off your first purchase, please visit
0:15.0	native deodorant.com and enter the promo code during checkout. That's
0:20.4	native deodorant.com and the promo code is cold.
0:24.0	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:27.0	April 9th, 1947
0:30.0	Woodward, Oklahoma
0:32.0	4 year old Jongay Croft is taken to the local hospital after an F5 tornado wipes out her hometown,
0:39.0	and kills over 100 people, including her mother.
0:42.0	While Jongay and her half sister are recovering from injuries in the basement, two men show up and take Jongay
0:48.6	away, claiming that they are taking her to another hospital to see her family.
0:53.0	But Jongay is never seen again, and these two men are never identified.
0:58.0	Over the next several decades, there would be a number of promising leads,
1:02.0	including an anonymous email or claiming to be
1:04.7	Joan Gaye, but she has never found, and the circumstances of her disappearance remained shrouded in
1:10.8	mystery. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, right, I'm, uh, right, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:34.0	uh,
1:35.0	and uh, and uh, uh, uh,
1:38.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:54.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be traveling back over 70 years to cover a very unique unsolved mystery.
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