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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 22 – Doreen Picard and Susan Laferte

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 β€’ 3.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 7 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

February 19, 1982. Woonsocket, Rhode Island. 27-year old Susan Laferte and 22-year old Doreen Picard are both attacked in the basement of their apartment house by an assailant who bludgeons them with a pipe. Doreen is killed and Susan remains in a coma for a month, but when she wakes up, she has no memory […]

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February 19th, 1982. One socket, Rhode Island.

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27-year-old Susan LaFairete, and 22-year-old Doreen Picard, are both attacked in the basement

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of their apartment house by an assailant who bludges them with a pipe. Doreen is killed,

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and Susan remains in a coma for a month, but when she wakes up, she has no memory of the attack.

0:24.9

Ten years later, a suspect named Raymond Beaver Tempest is convicted of Doreen's murder

0:30.8

and sentenced to 85 years in prison. However, since the prosecution's case was fraught with problems,

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Tempest's conviction is vacated in 2015, and the state is forced to decide whether or not to retry him.

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After that, the trail went cold.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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The police are in the hospital.

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