The Trail Went Cold - Episode 212 - Marie Lilienberg & Maria Wahlen

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

July 22, 1983. Redwood City, California. After spending the month travelling through the state, a pair of Swedish nationals - 23-year old Marie Lilienberg and 25-year old Maria Wahlen - leave their friend’s residence in order to hitchhike to Los Angeles. When they fail to make their scheduled flight and do not return home to Sweden, they are officially reported missing and their decomposing bodies are eventually found in Los Padres National Forest. Eight years later, the Swedish consulate in San Diego receives an anonymous phone call which implicates a potential suspect in the crime, but no arrest is ever made. Who was actually responsible for the deaths of Marie and Maria? Did they fall prey to a notorious serial killer who started operating in California during that time period? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the unsolved murders of two Swedish hitchhikers. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Marie_Lilienberg_and_Maria_Wahlén https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/08/21/The-fathers-of-two-Swedish-girls-who-disappeared-while/2268430286400/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/08/08/Officer-thinks-he-saw-missing-Swedish-women/9924429163200/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/62496432/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/08/19/Bodies-tentatively-identified-as-missing-Swedish-women/8611430113600/ http://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/08/21/The-fathers-of-two-Swedish-girls-who-disappeared-while/2268430286400/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/08/24/Swedish-girls-bodies-identified/7433430545600/ http://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/08/28/Young-tourists-take-chances/7512430891200/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/446915616/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_Freak_Killers “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, February 6 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	July 22nd, 1983.
0:03.8	Redwood City, California.
0:06.8	After spending the month traveling through the state, two Swedish nationals, 23-year-old
0:11.3	Marie Lillianburg and 25-year-old Maria Valin leave their friend's
0:15.8	residence in order to hitchhike to Los Angeles. When they fail to make their
0:19.7	schedule a flight and do not return home to Sweden, they are officially reported missing and their
0:25.3	decomposing bodies are soon found in Los Padres National Forest.
0:30.1	Eight years later, the Swedish consulate in San Diego receives an anonymous phone call, which implicates
0:36.3	a suspect in the murders of the two women, but it does not lead to an arrest, and no one is ever
0:41.6	charged for the crime. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.
1:03.0	Oh, uh, and uh,
1:05.0	uh, and uh, and uh,
1:07.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh,
1:10.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:24.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be exploring a disturbing cold case involving
1:29.3	hitchhiking.
1:30.1	The 1983 murders of Marie Lillianburg and Maria Bolin.
1:35.0	Marie and Maria were both Swedish nationals who decided to go on an extended vacations to the United States,
1:41.0	and even though they did not know each other, they cross-mass will
1:44.4	working the same job in Colorado and quickly became friends.
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