The Trail Went Cold - Episode 211 - Tina McMenamin

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

July 25, 1995. Lincoln, Nebraska. 18-year old university student Tina McMenamin fails to show up for her shift at work and her body is found inside her apartment bedroom later that night. Tina has been sexually assaulted and stabbed seven times and the apartment is ransacked. Nearly one year later, DNA testing links a suspect named Gregory Gabel to a strand of hair found in Tina’s hand and he is subsequently charged with her murder. However, before Gabel can go to trial, a second round of DNA testing excludes him from being the source of the hair, so the charges against him are dismissed. Why did the multiple DNA tests provide such contradictory results? If Gregory Gabel was not actually guilty of this crime, then who actually killed Tina McMenamin? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we shall explore a controversial murder which has remained unsolved for over 25 years. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Lincoln Police Department at (402) 441-6000. Additional Reading: https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-insider-dna-advances-havent-helped-solve-cold-murder-case-of-tina-mcmenamin/article_1e3c16ce-e7e4-53b2-99fc-86893aefa10c.html https://lnenortheastern.com/4035/feature/lincolns-notorious-cold-case-tina-mcmenamin/ http://www.dailynebraskan.com/charges-dropped-against-tina-mcmenamins-alleged-killer/article_07172c56-7b95-5b54-be61-9f4a0c68f66e.html https://beatricedailysun.com/tina-mcmenamin/image_445a512e-0ae3-5fb7-96ed-5473e1c2317f.html https://www.klkntv.com/new-leads-in-tina-mcmenamins-murder-case/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/297539927/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/297791436/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/297682774/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/297682435/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/297578441/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/fcmndi/the_unsolved_murder_of_tina_mcmenamin/ “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 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	July 25th. 1995 Lincoln Nebraska
0:05.8	18 year old university student Tina McMahon
0:08.8	fails to show up for her shift at work and her body is found inside her apartment bedroom later that night.
0:14.8	Tina has been sexually assaulted and stabbed seven times and the apartment is ransacked.
0:20.3	Nearly one year later, DNA testing links a suspect named Gregory Gable to a strand of hair found in Tina's hand and he is subsequently charged with her murder.
0:30.0	However, before Gable can go to trial, a second round of DNA testing excludes him from being the source of the hair,
0:38.0	so the charges against him are dismissed, and Tina's murder is never solved.
0:42.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	so good uh,
1:06.0	uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:24.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering a cold case from Nebraska,
1:29.6	the 1995 Murder of Tina McManeman.
1:33.5	This story involves the brutal death of a university student
1:36.9	and was originally suggested to me over a year ago
1:39.4	by a listener named Samantha.
1:41.8	Back when I did my Q&A episode at the end of 2020, I was asked a question about whether there were any states where I had not yet covered a case on the trail went cold, and since Nebraska was one of them I thought now would be an ideal time to do this episode
1:57.2	Now this is one of the more unusual murder cases I've ever done because it features a suspect being simultaneously implicated and cleared by DNA testing.
2:07.0	When Tina McMahoneman's body was found, she had a strand of hair clutched in her hand, which likely belonged to her killer,
2:14.4	and the hair's DNA would eventually be matched to a man named Gregory Gable.
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