The Trail Went Cold - Episode 224 - Leah Roberts

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

March 18, 2000. Whatcom County, Washington. A damaged Jeep belonging to 23-year old Leah Roberts is found at the bottom of an embankment next to a remote highway. Nine days earlier, Leah had left her home in North Carolina to take a cross-country road trip, but even though all of her personal possessions are left behind at the accident scene, Leah herself is missing. The investigation eventually uncovers evidence to suggest that the accident might have been staged and the Jeep was unoccupied when it went down the embankment. Further complications are also caused by strange anonymous phone call, as well as a reported eyewitness sighting of Leah with an unidentified man at a shopping mall restaurant. Was Leah Roberts actually inside her vehicle when it crashed or did she fall victim to an unknown third party? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores an unsolved missing persons case involving a road trip which turned into a baffling mystery. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office at (360) 676-6650. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Leah_Roberts http://unsolved.com/archives/leah-roberts http://charleyproject.org/case/leah-toby-roberts https://www.whatcomcounty.us/292/Missing-Leah-Roberts https://people.com/archive/the-searcher-vol-64-no-5/ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0511/25/lkl.01.html “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	March 18th, 2000.
0:02.8	Whatcom County? Washington.
0:05.6	A damaged jeep belonging to 23-year-old Leah Roberts is found at the bottom of an
0:09.9	embankment after it presumably crashed off a remote highway.
0:14.6	Nine days earlier, Leah had left her home in North Carolina to take a cross-country road
0:18.8	trip, but even though all of her personal possessions are left behind at the accident scene, Leah herself is missing.
0:25.9	The investigation uncovers evidence to suggest that the accident was staged and that Leah may
0:30.5	have been harmed by an unknown third party, but no trace of her is ever found.
0:35.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:43.0	Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, and uh, I'm going to. Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:17.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering one of my most highly
1:21.8	requested missing persons cases in the history of this
1:24.7	podcast, The 2000 Disappearance of Leah Roberts.
1:29.5	This story has been featured on the TV show's Unsolved Mysteries and disappeared, and ever since I started the
1:35.2	trail went cold over five years ago, I probably rank this among my top ten most highly
1:40.5	requested cases I haven't covered yet until now.
1:44.0	Leah Roberts was a young woman who seemed to be struggling to find herself
1:48.2	before she abruptly decided to leave her home in North Carolina to take a cross-country road trip without telling anyone beforehand.
1:56.3	It seems like she was planning to visit a location from one of the novels written by her favorite
2:00.5	author, Jack Kerouac, and sure enough, her abandoned jeep would soon be discovered near that location
2:06.6	around 3,000 miles away in Washington State. On the surface it seemed like Leah
2:12.4	had gotten into a serious accident after crashing down an embankment into a wooded area,
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