July 28, 2013. Newtown, Connecticut.

50-year-old Robert Hogi Hogland is last seen mowing the lawn outside his house,

but the following day, he fails to pick up his wife Laurie at the airport as scheduled.

When Laurie returns home, she discovers that her husband is missing, and that his vehicle and

all of his personal possessions have been left behind. Investigators explore the possibility that

Hogi's disappearance might be connected to his son's drug addiction issues,

and a recent confrontation he had with some criminal associates. However, no evidence of foul

play can be found, and Hogi remains a missing person. After that, the trail went cold.

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

I'm your host Robin Warder, and we've got a pretty baffling missing persons case to cover today.

The 2013 disappearance of Robert Hogland. It was first suggested to me about a year ago by a

listener named Wally, and I hadn't really delved into it until I recently watched an episode

about this story on the True Crime Show disappeared. This is one of those frustrating cold cases in

which a person just vanished from their home without a trace, and there's no evidence to suggest

what happened to them. On one hand, the victim, who went by the nickname Hogi,

had been dealing with some issues involving his son's drug addiction, and recently confronted some

people who had allegedly stolen some laptops from him, but investigators could not find any evidence

that any of these people were involved, or that a crime had even taken place. On the other hand,

there was one previous incident from years earlier where Hogi walked away from his family for three

weeks before he resurfaced. In most unsolved missing persons cases, it seems very unlikely that

the victim took off voluntarily, but since Hogi had done so before, this theory cannot be completely

discounted. But if Hogi disappeared on his own, he pretty much left everything behind. This case

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