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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 197 – William & Margaret Patterson

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 β€’ 3.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

March 5, 1957. El Paso, Texas. 52-year old William β€œPat” Patterson and his 42-year old wife, Margaret Patterson, vanish without explanation from their home, leaving everything behind. A friend of the couple soon claims to have received a phone call from Pat, who allegedly said that he and Margaret were leaving town for awhile. Ten […]

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0:04.7

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0:08.1

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0:13.8

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0:17.1

Thank you and enjoy the episode.

0:19.6

5.

0:21.0

1957.

0:22.7

El Paso, Texas.

0:25.3

52-year-old William Pat Patterson and his 42-year-old wife Margaret Patterson

0:30.6

vanished with that explanation from their home, leaving everything behind.

0:34.8

10 days later, Pat's account receives a telegram from him,

0:38.6

stating that he and Margaret are on an extended vacation

0:41.8

and providing instructions about how to handle their assets and business.

0:45.8

However, there is speculation that Pat did not actually write the telegram

0:50.2

and even though evidence eventually emerges to suggest that the Patterson's were victims

0:54.6

of foul play, no trace of the couple is ever found.

0:58.7

After that, the trail went cold.

1:24.7

Hello everyone and welcome to another Halloween themed episode of the trail went cold.

1:42.2

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering a missing persons case

1:46.6

involving a married couple, the 1957 disappearances of William and Margaret Patterson.

1:52.8

As you probably know, every October, it's become a tradition for the trail went

1:57.3

cold to countdown to Halloween by releasing episodes about creepy mysteries which have some sort

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