The Trail Went Cold - Episode 205 - Larry Griffin

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Christmas Day 1929. Stradbally, Ireland. After completing his holiday route, 49-year old postman Larry Griffin fails to return home and his bicycle is found on a road outside the village the following morning. Once a missing persons investigation is launched, rumours start circulating that Larry was killed after an incident at a local pub and a massive cover-up took place. Ten people are eventually charged for their alleged roles in Larry’s death, but his body cannot be found and the key eyewitness changes his story, the charges against the ten defendants are withdrawn. Was Larry Griffin’s disappearance the result of a vast conspiracy to conceal the truth about what happened? On this year’s final holiday-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will explore the saga of “The Missing Postman of Stradbally”, one of the most convoluted unsolved mysteries in the history of Ireland. Special thanks to listener for Bailey Meeker for providing the opening narration on our episode. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Larry_Griffin “The Missing Postman: What Really Happened to Larry Griffin?” by Fachtna O Drisceoil https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/the-missing-postman-26713401.html https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/mystery-still-surrounds-1929-disappearance-of-co-waterford-postman-1.4125610 https://www.mayonews.ie/living/staying-in/12494-books-larry-griffin-the-missing-postman https://www.newspapers.com/image/258779806/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/173233522/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. Join us on Saturday, December 12 at 8:00pm EST for an online streaming marathon where we will be watching classic segments from “Unsolved Mysteries”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon 2021: Austin” at the Fairmont Hotel in Austin, Texas on June 2-4, 2021, as well as “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 12-13, 2021. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD21”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com/CC21 or https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. 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	Christmas Day, 1929. Stradbally, Ireland.
0:07.0	After completing his holiday route, 49-year-old postman, Larry Griffin, fails to return home and his bicycle is found on a road
0:16.7	outside the village the following morning.
0:20.6	Rumors start circulating that Larry was killed after an incident at a local pub and the massive cover-up took place,
0:28.0	so ten people are eventually charged for their alleged roles in Larry's death.
0:33.5	However, since Larry's body cannot be found,
0:37.0	and a key eyewitness changes his story,
0:40.2	the charges against the 10 defendants are dropped and the case of the missing postman of Stradbally is never solved.
0:49.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:14.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:31.8	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be traveling
1:35.0	back over 90 years to cover a very unique Christmas mystery. The 1929 disappearance of Larry
1:41.8	Griffin, aka the missing postman of Strab Bally.
1:45.8	That voice you just heard narrating our intro is Bailey Meeker, the latest winner of
1:51.0	our most recent Trail went cold listener voiceover contest, so thank you very much Bailey.
1:56.5	This is a popular recurring monthly contest, which we've been holding for over three years now,
2:01.8	and if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so
2:04.4	I will be providing instructions at the end of this episode. Anyway it's become a
2:09.4	yearly tradition for the Trail went cold to cover holiday themed mysteries throughout the month of December,
2:15.0	and for our final mystery of this year, we're traveling all the way to Ireland for a truly bizarre disappearance,
2:22.0	which took place on Christmas day in
2:23.9	1929. It involves a postman named Larry Griffin who vanished without a trace
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