The Trail Went Cold - Episode 227 - Gloria Ross & Candy Belt

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

September 20, 1994. Oak Grove, Kentucky. 22-year old Candy Belt and 18-year old Gloria Ross are found dead at the massage parlour where they work, as they have both been shot in the head and had their throats slashed. It turns out the business was a front for a brothel and suspicion is directed towards a local police officer named Ed Carter, who is alleged to have been involved in a dispute with the massage parlour’s owner. Nineteen years later, Carter and two other suspects are charged for their roles in the murders, but since DNA evidence from the crime scene does not match any of them, they all wind up being acquitted at trial. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a brutal double homicide surrounded by scandal and allegations of police corruption which is often referred to as “The Kentucky Bordello Murders”. Special thanks to listener Samantha Hope Cannon for narrating the opening of this episode. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/candy-belt-gloria-ross/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Belt_and_Gloria_Ross http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1106-a-town-under-trial https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/08/31/kentucky-soap-opera-unleashed-after-double-slaying-at-brothel/2d0b9d30-bddd-42e2-80ff-c5a5f5c6e61a/?utm_term=.8f32871c91dc http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/21/justice/kentucky-prostitute-murders-cold-case/ http://wkms.org/post/jury-acquits-3-men-1994-west-kentucky-brothel-murder-trial http://www.kentuckynewera.com/web/article_998c8520-7536-11e6-837f-ff6be70258b9.html http://www.kentuckynewera.com/web/news/article_c4f5a69a-24af-11e3-a451-0019bb2963f4.html https://www.kentuckynewera.com/ep/news/article_e71cdd80-92a4-11e7-b33e-37e40271aa58.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	September 20th, 1994, Oak Grove, Kentucky.
0:04.0	22-year-old candy belt and 18-year-old Gloria Ross
0:08.0	are found shot to death with their throats slashed at the massage parlor where they were working.
0:12.0	It turns out the business was a front for a... slashed at the massage parlor where they were working.
0:13.0	It turns out that business was a front for a brothel and suspicion is directed toward a local
0:17.5	police officer named Ed Carter, who was alleged to have been involved in a dispute with the
0:21.7	owner.
0:23.0	19 years later, Carter and two suspects are charged for their roles in the murders,
0:28.0	but since the DNA evidence does not match any of them, they are all acquitted at trial
0:32.0	and no one ever faces justice for the crime.
0:35.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
0:44.0	and uh,
0:45.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:55.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:17.0	I'm your host Robin Mordner and today we're going to be covering a brutal double homicide.
1:22.0	The 1994 murders of Candy Belt and Gloria Ross.
1:26.8	That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Samantha Hope Cannon,
1:30.7	the latest winner of our most recent
1:33.0	Trail went Cold listener voiceover contest so thank you very much Samantha.
1:37.0	This has been a recurring monthly contest which we've been holding for nearly four years now
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