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April 9th, 1947

Woodward, Oklahoma. 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft is taken to the local hospital

after an F-5 tornado wipes out her hometown and kills 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 Joan Gay away claiming that they are taking her to another hospital to

see her family. But Joan Gay is never seen again and these two men are never identified.

Over the next several decades, there would be a number of promising leads,

including an anonymous email or claiming to be Joan Gay, but she is never found,

and the circumstances of her disappearance remain shrouded in mystery.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.

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, the 1947 disappearance of 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft.

Yes, cases involving missing children are not easy to cover, but the circumstances of this one

are just so bizarre that I've been anxious to do an episode about it for quite some time.

This story is technically a tragedy within a tragedy, as it involves one of the worst tornadoes

in history, which completely devastated a small town in Oklahoma and caused the deaths of over 100

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