The Trail Went Cold - Episode 166 - The Indiana Dunes Women

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

July 2, 1966. Porter County, Indiana. 21-year old Ann Miller, 19-year old Patricia Blough and 19-year old Renee Bruhl leave their homes in Illinois in order to travel to the Indiana Dunes State Park. After taking a spot on the beach next to Lake Michigan, the three women venture into the water, leaving all of their belongings behind. Eyewitnesses would recall seeing them climb into a boat with an unidentified man before they vanished without a trace and there would be a number of different theories about why they went missing. Did the women take off voluntarily? Were they murdered over possible connections to notorious criminal Silas Jayne and his “horse syndicate”? Could their disappearance have been the result of an illegal abortion gone wrong? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we shall explore the truly baffling disappearance of the “Indiana Dunes Women”. We would like to send out a special thanks to Smithsonian Channel Plus for supporting “The Trail Went Cold”. Visit www.getscplus.com/cold and get 50% off your first three months of Smithsonian Channel Plus. Join us on March 21 at 8:00pm Eastern Time for an online streaming Unsolved Mysteries marathon where we will be watching segments about cases covered on episodes of “The Trail Went Cold”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/ann-miller http://charleyproject.org/case/patricia-blough http://charleyproject.org/case/renee-bruhl https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-06-21-8702170368-story.html https://www.nydailynews.com/news/justice-story/3-girls-beach-found-article-1.1216303 “Silas Jayne: Chicago’s Suburban Gangster” by Bryan Alaspa “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	We would like to send out a special thanks to Smithsonian Channel Plus for supporting the trail
0:04.1	and cold. Smithsonian Channel Plus is a new service that features original series and documentaries
0:10.0	about crime and mystery, history, science, and pop culture and more, including the new series
0:16.0	called The Lost Tapes. So visit getscplus.com slash cold and get 50% off your first three months
0:23.7	of Smithsonian Channel Plus. Thank you and enjoy the show. July 2, 1966. Porter County, Indiana.
0:34.8	21-year-old Ann Miller, 19-year-old Patricia Blow, and 19-year-old Renee Bruell leave their homes
0:42.0	in Illinois in order to travel to the Indiana Dune State Park. After taking a spot on the beach
0:48.2	next to Lake Michigan, the three women vanish, leaving their belongings behind, and eyewitnesses
0:54.4	would recall seeing them walk into the water and climb into a boat with an unidentified man.
1:00.1	Over the years, there will be a number of theories about their disappearance, including a botched
1:05.2	abortion, and a legitimized to criminals from a horse syndicate. But no choice did the Indiana
1:11.2	Dune's women is ever found. After that, the trail went cold.
1:41.6	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host
1:57.6	Robin Warner and we've got a baffling missing persons case to cover today. The 1966
2:03.2	disappearances of Ann Miller, Patricia Blow, and Renee Bruell, aka the Indiana Dune's women.
2:10.6	That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Kristen Ellen Thomas, the latest winner of our
2:15.7	most recent trail went cold, listen to voiceover contest, so thank you very much Kristen Ellen.
2:21.5	This is a popular recurring monthly contest which we have been carrying on for quite some time,
2:26.7	and if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions
2:31.3	at the end of this episode. Anyway, this is the baffling story of three female friends who decided
2:37.1	to start off the long 4th of July weekend by spending the day at the beach in Indiana Dune State Park,
2:43.6	but even though there were thousands of other people around, they somehow vanished without a trace
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