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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 157 - Jamie Stickle

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

February 8, 2002. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After closing up the bar she manages and drinking at various clubs in the downtown area, 33-year old Jamie Stickle drives back home to her apartment. Shortly thereafter, Jamie’s Jeep Wrangler is found engulfed in flames near her front door and her badly burned body is in the driver’s seat. Since some of Jamie’s personal items are scattered on the ground and there is a blood trail at the scene, this seems to indicate a violent attack, but investigators are unable to determine how exactly the fire started. As a result, there is not enough concrete evidence to classify Jamie’s death as a homicide and her cause of death is officially ruled to be “undetermined”. Was Jamie the victim of foul play or was she actually killed in a freak accident? If it was murder, who was responsible and what could their motive have been? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a truly perplexing cold case which has stumped investigators for the past two decades. In addition, we will also briefly discuss the brutal unsolved murder of Catherine Corkery, which took place in Pittsburgh on July 22, 1989. Additional Reading: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/unsolved-murder-has-many-keys/Content?oid=1337516 http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/north-side-death-still-mourned-and-mysterious/Content?oid=1334804 https://archive.triblive.com/news/4-years-and-no-leads-in-north-side-death/ https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2012/02/06/For-family-of-Jamie-Stickle-search-for-clues-to-her-death-never-ends/stories/201202060215 https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/04/29/kdka-mysteries-jamie-stickle-burning-jeep/ “Who Killed… Pittsburgh, Pa?” by Jack Swint https://patch.com/pennsylvania/dormont-brookline/unsolved-cases-catherine-corkery-afd942dd “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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February 8th, 2002.

0:03.4

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

0:06.0

After closing up the bar she manages and going out drinking,

0:09.6

33-year-old Jamie Stickle dries back home to her apartment.

0:13.2

Shortly thereafter, Jamie's Jeep Wrangler is found engulfed in flames near her front door

0:18.8

and her badly burned body is in the driver's seat. Even though some of Jamie's personal items are

0:24.2

scattered on the ground and there is a blood trail to suggest she was attacked,

0:28.0

there is not enough concrete evidence to classify her death as a homicide.

0:33.4

As a result, Jamie's cause of death is officially ruled to be undetermined,

0:38.4

and the exact circumstances of how the fire started remain unknown. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,

0:54.0

uh, for a, uh, uh, uh, yeah.

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Oh, uh, uh, uh,

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uh, and uh, and uh,

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uh,

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uh,

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uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

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I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering a case which can best be

1:30.0

described as a true headscratcher, the 2002 death of Jamie Stickle.

1:35.0

I've received a few requests to cover this story, and while it's not particularly well

1:39.7

known, I became intrigued by the case once I started delving into it.

1:44.0

I've covered a number of unsolved mysteries on this podcast in which you can come up with a fairly concrete theory about what happened,

1:51.0

but this is definitely not one of them.

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