June 13th, 2001. Dallas, Texas.

51-year-old teacher Sharon Davis drops her daughter off out of bus depot, but fails to show

up for a schedule training session at her school that morning. Five days later, Sharon's

abandoned minivan is discovered in the parking lot of a local fitness club. Suspicion turns

towards Sharon's estranged husband, Ron Davis, as Sharon had filed for divorce from him only two

days before she disappeared. Ron maintains his innocence, he claims that Sharon stole money from

him and took off on her own, but no trace of her is ever found. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin

Warner and we've got an unsolved missing persons case to cover today. The 2001 disappearance

of Sharon Davis. Now this one is pretty unique for a number of reasons. As you probably know,

this podcast has gone out of its way to cover lesser known cases which were featured on unsolved

mysteries, but only aired on television once or a handful of times. In fact, I've even discussed

a few cold cases which came close to being featured on the show, but never came to fruition.

However, in this case, unsolved mysteries actually went to the trouble of filming and producing

an entire segment, but for various reasons, including an angry letter from the victim's husband,

the segment never aired. So as far as I know, it has remained in a fault and not seen the light of

day for nearly 20 years. The victim in question was a wife and mother named Sharon Davis, who

vanished without explanation, and as you might have already guessed, most of the suspicion would be

directed towards her husband as the marriage was not a happy one and Sharon had taken the major

step of filing for divorce only days before she went missing. Unfortunately, it seems like

unsolved mysteries is a decision to not air this case, really put a monkey wrench into the attempts

to get it some attention. The primary sources I could find for this episode are Sharon Davis'

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