May 27th, 2000, Nogrille, Jamaica.

When she is denied entry into Cuba for an assignment, 29-year-old travel writer Claudia

Claudia Kirschock is rerouted to a Sandals Beach Resort in Jamaica while she waits for a flight back home to New York.

After last being seen walking along a beach, Claudia vanishes without a trace and most of her personal items are left behind

in her hotel room.

The investigation leads to a resort bartender whom Claudia went out with prior to her disappearance, but there is not enough evidence to implicate him and

Claudia continues to remain a missing person. After that, the trail went cooled. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh,

and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Gold. I'm your

host Robin Warder and we've got another missing person's case to cover today.

The 2000 disappearance of Claudia Kershawk. That voice you've just heard narrative. the Trail went cold listener voiceover contest so thank you very much

Alyssa. This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been carrying on for over two

years now and if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so I will be providing instructions at the end of this episode.

Anyway, Alyssa originally hails from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, so this week, I'm going to be exploring a cold case which took place on another

island country in the Caribbean. The actual victim in this story was an American

travel writer from New York named Claudia Kershaw, who was supposed to be traveling to Cuba for a junket,

but after she was denied entry into the country during a layover in Jamaica,

Sandals Resorts Incorporated offered her a complimentary stay at one of the resorts, Beaches and a grill.

She was scheduled to remain there for nearly a week until a flight back home became available,

but something happened to her before she could leave.

Most of you are probably familiar with the disappearance of Natalie Holloway, another young American woman who went missing during a trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba,

and while Claudia's disappearance didn't receive nearly as much attention,

you can definitely see some parallels between the two cases.

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