The Trail Went Cold - Episode 171 - Claudia Lawrence

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

March 18, 2009. York, England. 35-year old Claudia Lawrence speaks on the phone with her parents and texts her best friend about meeting for drinks the following evening. When Claudia fails to show up for work the next morning and misses her meet-up with her friend, she is subsequently reported missing. The investigation would uncover allegations that Claudia was involved in some secret relationships which may have led to her disappearance, causing the story to become sensationalized by the media. Over the next decade, a number of different men are arrested on suspicion of Claudia’s murder, but due to a lack of evidence, none of them are formally charged. Was Claudia victimized by someone from her personal life, or could a stranger have been responsible for her disappearance? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel to the United Kingdom to explore one of their most prominent unsolved missing persons cases of recent memory. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Claudia_Lawrence https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/what_happened_to_claudia https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35759574 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/18/ten-years-on-claudia-lawrence-search-frustrated-by-information-withheld-police https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27418063 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/claudia-lawrence-murder-theories-latest-becky-godden-serial-killer-christopher-halliwell-yorkshire-a7986021.html http://nyenquirer.uk/did-halliwell-murder-claudia-lawrence/ https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/everything-know-disappearance-claudia-lawrence-17946108 http://www.findclaudia.co.uk “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

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	March 18th, 2009.
0:03.6	York, England.
0:05.8	35-year-old Claudia Lawrence speaks on the phone with her parents and texts her best friend
0:10.7	about meeting for drinks the following evening.
0:13.0	When Claudia fails to show up for work the next morning
0:16.0	and misses her meet up with her friend,
0:18.0	she is subsequently reported missing.
0:20.0	The investigation would uncover allegations that Claudia was involved in some secret relationships which could have led to her disappearance.
0:28.0	Over the next decade, a number of different men are arrested on suspicion of murder, but none of them are formally charged, and no trace of Claudia is ever found.
0:37.0	After that, the trail went cold. I'm going to So you're can. Now real there's something you want to talk about tonight that you haven't spoken about in public before you
1:23.4	think it could be the key that there are areas of Claudia's life that are
1:28.2	delicate to say the least and definitely complex tell us what it is you want to see.
1:34.2	As the investigation has developed, it's apparent that some of Clody's
1:37.6	relationships had an element of complexity and mystery to them.
1:41.1	I'm certain that some of those relationships were not known to a family or a friends. I need to know the details of those relationships. In fact, I do know details of some of them.
1:50.0	And I would urge anybody that was involved in a relationship with Claudia or knew of one that a friend, a colleague, a neighbor was involved in.
1:57.0	Please, if they're going to be discreet and if they want to actually allow us to deal with it in a controlled way in a confidential
2:04.2	way they need to pick up that phone and give the call tonight. You see some people
2:07.9	might think they're protecting Claudia and they're protecting Claudia's
2:10.8	reputation but it's far far more important than that if indeed we are talking here about murder.
2:15.0	I mean, you do want to hear from people who even have suspicions about other people.
2:20.0	That would be useful to you at this stage.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Robin Warder, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Robin Warder and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.