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🗓️ 11 March 2020
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0:21.2 | August 18th, 1987 |
0:24.7 | Manatee County, Florida |
0:27.2 | Todd McCaffey, the 27-year-old manager of a tomato farm, is discovered to be missing from his |
0:32.9 | trailer after his employees arrive for work. Todd's body is soon discovered in a drainage |
0:38.4 | ditch and he has been shot four times. Since a valuable gun collection was stolen from Todd's trailer, |
0:44.8 | he was apparently killed during a burglary and police investigated citing some suspects |
0:50.0 | who were seen in the area in an orange van on the day of the crime. Years later, |
0:55.6 | Todd's former housekeeper is indicted for his murder, |
0:58.8 | but the charges are dropped when the case against her falls apart and the crime continues to |
1:03.5 | remain unsolved. After that, the trail went cold. |
1:26.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. |
1:47.9 | I'm your host Robin Warner and today we're going to tackle a cold case which was featured on one |
1:52.8 | of the rarest segments of unsolved mysteries, the 1987 murder of Todd McCaffey. |
1:59.2 | Todd ran a tomato farm in rural Florida before he was shot to death during an apparent burglary |
2:04.6 | of his trailer. Todd's former housekeeper was eventually charged with his murder after she |
2:10.2 | allegedly confessed her involvement in the crime to a jailhouse informant, but the charges would |
2:15.2 | be dropped after the informant recanted his story. The case would be featured on an episode of |
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