March 18th, 2000.

Wachcombe County, Washington.

A damaged Jeep belonging to 23-year-old Leah Roberts is found at the bottom of an embankment

after it presumably crashed off a remote highway.

Nine days earlier, Leah had left her home in North Carolina to take a cross-country road trip,

but even though Oliver personal possessions are left behind at the accident scene,

Leah herself is missing.

The investigation uncovers evidence to suggest that the accident was staged

and that Leah may have been harmed by an unknown third party, but no trace of her is ever found.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering one of my most highly

requested missing persons cases in the history of this podcast, the 2000 Disappearing of Leah

Roberts. This story has been featured on the TV shows Unsaw Mysteries and Disappeared,

and ever since I started The Trail Went Cold over five years ago, I probably ranked this among

my top 10 most highly requested cases I haven't covered yet, until now.

Leah Roberts was a young woman who seemed to be struggling to find herself,

but before she abruptly decided to leave her home in North Carolina to take a cross-country road trip

without telling anyone beforehand. It seems like she was planning to visit a location from one

of the novels written by your favorite author, Jack Kerawak, and sure enough, her abandoned jeep would

soon be discovered near that location, around 3,000 miles away in Washington State. On the surface,

it seemed like Leah had gotten into a serious accident after crashing down an embankment into a

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