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December 27th, 1928. Orville, Ohio.

Four-year-old Melvin horse leaves his house to play in the neighborhood with friends,

but never returns home, and a search of the area fails to turn up any trace of them.

Over the course of the next two years, a number of different suspects would be arrested

after allegation surface that Melvin's disappearance was orchestrated by bootlegers

as revenge against his uncle for enforcing prohibition.

While two suspects are convicted of Melvin's presumed abduction, their senses are overturned,

and even though there are a number of reported sightings of Melvin to suggest he might still be alive,

the truth about what happened to him remains unknown. 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 today we're going to kick off the month of December

with an unsolved missing children's case which took place over 90 years ago,

the 1928 disappearance of four-year-old Melvin horse. As you probably know, it's pretty much an

annual tradition for the trail went cold to spend December, covering holiday-themed mysteries which

occurred around Christmas time. This particular story took place two days after Christmas,

and in a cruel twist of fate, the victim was playing with a new toy he had received as a gift

when he disappeared. This is considered to be the oldest act of missing persons case in the state

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