The Trail Went Cold - Episode 154 - The Walker Family Murders

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

December 19, 1959. Osprey, Florida. After spending the day running errands and visiting a family friend, 25-year old Cliff Walker, his 24-year old wife Christine, and their two children, three-year old Jimmie and 23-month old Debbie, head back to their rural home in separate vehicles. The following morning, the family’s bodies are discovered inside their house. They were each shot in the head before Debbie was drowned in the bathtub and Christine has also been sexually assaulted. Over the next several decades, investigators would look at a number of different suspects, but two of the most promising turn out to be Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, who were responsible for the murder of the Clutter family in Kansas one month earlier, a crime which became the subject of the iconic book, “In Cold Blood”. However, DNA testing on the deceased killers turns out to be inconclusive and there is no evidence to conclusively implicate anyone. This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” covers the harrowing murders of an entire family which have remained unsolved for 60 years. Special thanks to listener Alanna LaForce for providing the opening narration for this episode. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_family_murders “In Colder Blood” by J.T. Hunter http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20051218/unsolved http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20051219/the-suspects-a-litany-of-names-and-clues http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20051220/a-last-hope-dna-could-crack-the-case http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20121209/what-if-in-cold-blood-got-it-wrong-about-walker-murders http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20121209/what-in-cold-blood-said http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20130813/no-dna-link-between-walker-murders-in-cold-blood-killers “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	December 19th, 1959, Osprey, Florida.
0:05.0	After spending the day running errands and visiting a family friend,
0:09.0	25-year-old Cliff Walker and his 24-year-old wife Christine and their two children. 25 year old old
0:13.0	old wife Christine and their two children three year old Jimmy
0:16.4	and 23 month old Debbie head back home in separate vehicles.
0:21.0	The following morning the family's bodies are discovered inside their rural house.
0:27.1	They were each shot in the head before Debbie was drowned in the bathtub and Christine has been
0:32.1	sexually assaulted.
0:34.0	Over the next several decades, investigators would look at a number of different suspects,
0:40.0	including Perry Smith and Richard Hickok, who were responsible for murdering the clutter family in Kansas one month earlier.
0:47.0	But in the end, no one is ever conclusively linked to the Walker family murders.
0:53.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.
1:13.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:15.0	uh, and uh, uh,
1:16.0	uh, uh, uh,
1:18.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:20.0	uh, I'm okay. Okay.
1:24.0	Oh.
1:25.0	Oh. Oh. Oh.
1:27.0	Oh,
1:28.0	Oh, Oh,
1:30.0	Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to our final holiday themed episode of the Trail Went Cold.
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