The Trail Went Cold - Episode 222 - Pamela June Ray

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

August 12, 1992. Panama City Beach, Florida. After leaving her home in Georgia on a vacation with her two children, 36-year old Pamela June Ray arrives at a beachfront motel during the early morning hours and parks in front of the office. Pamela’s children are sleeping in the back seat, but when they wake up a few hours later, they learn that their mother has vanished and a patrol officer reports having seen Pamela in the company of an unidentified man shortly before she went missing. Years later, a convicted killer named Mark Riebe confesses to the murders of over a dozen woman, including Pamela, but he later recants all of his confessions. Was Riebe actually responsible for Pamela June Ray’s disappearance? If so, what happened to her remains? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a disturbing missing persons case which has yet to find a resolution after nearly 30 years. Special thanks to Dr. Ashley Wellman for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Panama City Beach Police Department at (850) 233-5000. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Thanks, BetterHelp. Get 10 % off your first month at betterhelp.com/trail. This coming Thursday, April 22, from 7:00-8:00 PM Central Time, Robin will be giving a virtual presentation at the Lombard Historical Society about the 1966 disappearance of the Indiana Dunes Women. The event is free and in order to view the presentation, please register at this website. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Pamela_June_Ray http://charleyproject.org/case/pamela-june-ray https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/pamela-june-ray-no-vacancy https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/mark-riebe-sins-of-the-father https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20190706/looking-for-answers-in-pamela-june-rays-1992-disappearance https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/years-ago-this-week-georgia-mother-disappeared-her-children-slept/bHDWApPaVO3tfhZgA3xobO/ https://www.newsherald.com/news/20190317/unsolved-bay-county-disappearance-of-pamela-ray “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 UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on September 25-26, 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.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	We would like to send out a special thanks to better help for supporting the trail
0:03.7	went cold. For 10% off your first month, go to better H-E-L-P dot com slash trail and start living a better life
0:12.3	today.
0:13.2	Enjoy the show.
0:15.1	August 12th, 1992, Panama City, Florida.
0:20.0	After leaving her home in Georgia on a vacation with her two children, 36 year old Pamela
0:25.3	June Ray arrives at a beachfront motel during the early morning hours and parks in front of the office.
0:32.1	Pamela's children are asleep in the backseat. But when they
0:35.1	wake up a few hours later, they learn their mother has vanished. A patrol
0:40.1	officer reports having seen Pamela in the company of an unidentified man shortly before she went missing.
0:46.0	Years later, a convicted murderer named Mark Rebe confesses to abducting and killing Pamela, but he later recants this confession and no trace of
0:56.3	her is ever found.
0:58.7	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, yeah. So, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:40.0	I'm your host Robin Mortar and today we're going to be exploring a frightening cold case involving a missing mother,
1:46.0	the 1992 disappearance of Pamela June Ray.
1:50.0	That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Dr. Ashley Wellman, the latest winner of our most recent
1:56.2	Trauant Cold Voiceover Contest.
1:58.7	As you might know, Ashley just happens to be one of my co-host on my recently launched spin-off
2:03.9	podcast, The Path Went Chilly, and in a crazy coincidence I recently drew Ashley's
2:09.4	name. As it turned out she had originally entered this contest back in January of 2018,
2:15.0	back when she was just a casual trail with cold fan and we did not know each other.
2:20.0	If you'd like to enter this contest and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode,
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