The Trail Went Cold - Episode 155 - Update!

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Since “The Trail Went Cold” originally launched in February 2016, we have featured over 200 unsolved cold cases on the podcast, but a decent number of these cases have either wound up being solved or had some significant developments take place. Examples include the disappearance of Pamela Butler, the murder of Jodine Serrin, the disappearance of 12-year old Jonelle Matthews, and the murder of an unidentified Jane Doe known only as “Orange Socks”. In this special “update” episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will kick off 2020 by chronicling all the major developments which have occurred in these stories over the past four years. Special thanks to actress Kaniehtiio Horn for providing the opening narration on this episode. Please check out her podcast, “A Coffee With My Ma” (https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/coffee-with-my-ma/id1372866076). This episode also contains a promo for the true crime podcast, “Already Gone” (http://www.alreadygonepodcast.com). This episode of “The Trail Went Cold” is brought to you by HelloFresh. Go to HelloFresh.com/COLD10 and use code “COLD10” during HelloFresh’s New Year’s sale for 10 free meals including free shipping. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/pamela-j-butler https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/eight-years-after-pamela-butler-disappeared-from-her-dc-home-her-killer-admits-guilt/2017/10/06/5c8134e2-aa9f-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/imprisoned-for-killing-one-woman-dc-area-man-is-charged-with-murder-in-another-womans-death/2019/10/18/d1700a2a-f1ca-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/jodine-serrin-carlsbad-cold-case-murder-suspect-david-mabrito/168412/ https://www.statesman.com/news/20190807/40-years-after-her-death-debra-jackson-of-abilene-identified-as-orange-socks https://www.huffpost.com/entry/el-dorado-jane-doe_n_5c48cc72e4b025aa26bf852d https://www.candgnews.com/news/judge-overwhelming-evidence-in-galloway-case-114983 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-49661128 https://coloradosun.com/2019/10/01/jonelle-matthews-greeley-police-murder-cold-case-pankey/ https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-andrea-kuiper-identification-20170512-htmlstory.html https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-best-reads/2018/12/23/hatbox-baby-great-arizona-mystery-new-clues-solve-sharon-elliott/2301185002/ https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/08/tracy-kroh-timeline-years-of-searching-recently-an-arrest-but-will-the-mystery-finally-end.html https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/new-witness-backs-up-gardas-theory-that-trevor-deely-killed-in-row-with-gang-38755889.html https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20171218/tempest-convicted-second-time-in-1982-murder https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2019/10/19/state-attorney-rejects-death-row-inmates-dna-appeal/ https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article235188057.html https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/dale-kerstetter-gone-platinum https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/dale-kerstetter-gone-platinum-2-the-mystery-deepens https://the-record-newspaper.tumblr.com/archive https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2019/12/newburgh-heights-police-tiffin-university-students-partner-up-to-investigate-1981-cold-case-death-of-kurt-sova.html https://www.cbs46.com/news/exclusive-a-possible-crack-in-the-cold-cases-of-mary/article_38603214-f6c1-11e9-b397-97fdb9832a0f.html https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-the-millbrook-twins/crime-news/disappearance-of-the-millbrook-twins-richmond “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.

Transcript

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0:00.0	We would like to send out a special thanks to Hello Fresh for supporting the trail went cold.
0:04.5	Hello Fresh lets you just cook, eat, and enjoy.
0:07.8	Go to Hello Fresh.com slash Cold Ten and use code, cold 10 during Hello Fresh's New Year's sale for 10
0:16.3	free meals including free shipping. Thank you and enjoy the episode.
0:29.0	April 8th, 2017, Washington, D.C. Police announced the arrest of 51 year old Jose Rodriguez Cruz after charging him with first-degree
0:35.5	murder. Eight years earlier, Jose's former girlfriend, 47-year-old Pamela Butler, vanished from her her home and while her body had still not been found
0:47.0	Investigators were able to build up a strong enough case against Jose to pursue murder charges
0:55.2	This would mark the first time that a cold case featured on the trail when cold was solved, but it would not be the last.
1:00.3	Over the past three years a number of cases from the podcast have either been solved or featured some very significant developments.
1:09.0	After that, the trail did not go cold.
1:15.2	So I guess you could say, update. Oh, Happy New Year everyone and welcome to our first official Trail Went Cold episode of 2020.
1:50.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be kicking off the year by doing something a little different from the norm. If you grew up watching Unsaw Mysteries, you'll probably remember the thrill of tuning in and hearing Robert Stack utter the iconic word update before he shared a new development in a case which had been featured on the show.
2:10.0	Well that's exactly what we're going to do on this very special update episode of the trail went cold.
2:16.5	But first, I just wanted to make mention of the person who narrated our intro.
2:21.5	That is none other than Canadian actress Gagna Dio Horn, who hails from my current hometown of Ottawa, Ontario. Gagna Dio, who is often referred to as Dio, has a number of film and television credits to her name,
2:35.1	including the Netflix horror series Hemlock Grove, the Amazon series The Man in the High Castle,
2:41.1	the recent remake of Death Wish, and she currently plays the character Tannis on the popular Canadian sitcom, Letterkenny.
2:49.0	I first learned that Dio was a major fan of the trail went cold a couple years ago when she
2:54.0	tweeted a photo of herself in the dentist chair saying that my podcast
2:58.0	was helping her get through a root canal. She recently expressed her
3:01.8	interest in making an appearance on the show, so I asked if she wanted to narrate the opening of this special episode.
3:08.0	It also turns out that Diyo actually hosts a podcast of her own called Coffee with My Ma and I will be telling you more about it near the end of this episode.
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