The Trail Went Cold - Episode 215 - Ann Gotlib

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

June 1, 1983. Louisville, Kentucky. 12-year old Ann Gotlib leaves her friend's residence in order to ride her bicycle back to her family's apartment, but she never arrives. When Ann's mother goes searching for her, she discovers Ann's abandoned bicycle outside a department store, but no trace of her can be found. 25 years later, investigators announce that new evidence seems to point towards a convicted sex offender named Gregory Oakley being responsible for Ann's disappearance. However, since Oakley is already deceased by that point, no charges can be filed and Ann's body is never found. On this week's episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore an unsolved abduction from the 1980s which helped play a role in changing how missing children's investigations were performed. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Louisville office of the FBI at (502) 583-3941. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Ann_Gotlib https://charleyproject.org/case/ann-gotlib https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/the-vault-the-disappearance-of-ann-gotlib/417-443816484 https://www.wave3.com/story/8409806/ann-gotlibs-family-still-hopeful-shell-be-found https://www.wave3.com/story/9458488/police-convicted-felon-responsible-for-ann-gotlibs-disappearance-and-death https://www.newspapers.com/image/110740184/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/110740271/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181567753/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181567993/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181568026/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181575785/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181575944/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181578538/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181578785/ “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	June 1st, 1983.
0:03.2	Louisville, Kentucky.
0:05.6	Twelve-year-old Anne Gottlieb leaves her friend's residence in order to ride her bicycle back
0:09.7	to her family's apartment, but she never arrives. When Anne's mother goes searching for, she
0:15.2	discovers Anne's abandoned bicycle outside a apartment store but no trace of her
0:19.8	can be found. 25 years later, investigators announced that new evidence seems to point towards a
0:25.8	convicted sex offender named Gregory Oakley, but since he is currently deceased, there is no
0:30.9	resolution in Anne's disappearance. After that the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
0:44.0	uh, for the, uh, uh, yeah.
0:53.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, and uh,
0:56.0	and uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:00.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:14.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to explore an unsolved
1:18.9	missing children's case, the 1983 disappearance of 12-year- old and Gottlieb. I originally received a request to cover this one last year from a listener named Tyler and surprisingly it does not look like it has been featured on too many other podcasts, even though it's often cited as one of the cases, which signaled a major turning point in missing children's investigations.
1:41.0	And Gottlieb was originally born in the Soviet Union before she emigrated to the United
1:46.2	States with her parents, but only three years after their arrival, and vanished while biking
1:51.6	home. Anne's bicycle would be found outside a mall department store
1:56.0	and the evidence clearly seemed to indicate that she had been abducted.
1:59.0	But what was particularly shocking is that Anne's disappearance occurred in broad daylight in a public
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