The Trail Went Cold - Episode 223 - Mistie Murray

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

May 31, 1995. Goderich, Ontario. After leaving her school, 16-year old Mistie Murray fails to return home and is subsequently reported missing. Even though there are several eyewitness sightings placing Mistie at numerous locations in the weeks following her disappearance, police focus their attention on her adoptive father, Steve Murray. Over three months later, Steve is arrested for Mistie’s murder after he is accused using his boat to dump her body in Lake Huron. However, since there is virtually no evidence against Steve, he winds up being acquitted when he goes on trial. Did Steve suffer the dubious distinction of being prosecuted for a nonexistent murder? If Mistie was not a victim of foul play and ran away of her own accord, what ultimately happened to her? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore one of the most bizarre and controversial missing persons cases in Canadian history. If you have any information about this case, please contact ChildFind at 1-800-387-7962. Additional Reading: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1221dfon.html https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/lfp-archives-the-enduring-mistie-murray-mystery https://everything2.com/title/Mistie+Murray https://www.newspapers.com/image/514104024/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/505921065/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/504440201/ https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/dad-once-accused-in-teen-daughter-mistie-murrays-vanishing-dies-at-68 http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0006/np000606.htm “Damaged Angels” by Bonnie Buxton https://www.opp.ca/index.php?id=115&entryid=56bc805a8f94ac2b21c4fe0e “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	May 31st, 1995 Godrich, Ontario
0:05.0	After leaving her school, 16-year-old Misty Murray fails to return home
0:10.0	and is subsequently reported missing.
0:12.0	Even though there are numerous eyewitness sightings of Misty in the days following her disappearance,
0:17.0	police focus their attention on her adoptive father, Steve Murray.
0:21.0	Over three months later, Steve is arrested for Misty's murder and is accused of dumping her body in Lake Huron.
0:28.1	Since there is virtually no evidence against Steve, he winds up being acquitted when he goes on trial and Misty continues to remain a
0:35.3	missing person. After that the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:43.0	Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, and uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, there's uh, there's uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:18.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be returning to our podcast's home country of Canada
1:24.0	to cover an unsolved missing persons case involving a teenage girl.
1:28.0	The 1995 disappearance of Misty Murray.
1:31.8	It's been a while since we've covered a Canadian case on the trail
1:34.4	when cold and I'm sure some of you may have performed a double take when you saw
1:38.1	the title of this episode because as you're probably aware the disappearance Morum-Marie might be the most famous missing person's case of the modern era.
1:47.0	Well, even though it's nowhere near as well known, the disappearance of Misty Murray is pretty unusual in its own right and has a number of twists and turns.
1:56.0	After a difficult childhood in which she was given up by her birth mother, Misty was adopted at age four by a couple named Steve and Anne Murray, and no, before you ask, this was not the famous Canadian singer, Anne Murray.
2:10.0	While they had their ups and downs, Misty's relationship with her adoptive parents was generally good, but after she went missing, the local police began to suspect that Steve Murray had killed Misty, and even though her body was never found he wound up being charged with murder.
2:26.0	But the big complication is that there were a number of eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen Misty in the days and weeks after she went missing,
2:34.8	so Steve may have had the dubious distinction of going on trial for killing someone who was still alive.
2:41.2	The whole investigation and prosecution was considered to be a major farce and Steve was
2:47.0	ultimately found not guilty by the jury, but in spite of all these sightings, Misty was never
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