The Trail Went Cold - Episode 231 - Richard Colvin Cox

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

January 14, 1950. West Point, New York. 21-year old Richard Colvin Cox, a second-year cadet at the United States Military Academy, tells his roommate that he is planning to go out to dinner with a visitor, but he does not return and is eventually reported missing. During the preceding week, Cox was visited on multiple occasions by a man whose name may have been “George” and Cox is believed to have been with him when he vanished. George’s identity is never conclusively established and over the years, a number of different theories are presented about Cox’s disappearance. Did Cox have a secret relationship with the mysterious George? Did he become the victim of foul play? Or was Cox recruited to work for the CIA and given a new identity? We shall attempt to answer these questions on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, which chronicles one of the most baffling military-themed mysteries of all time. Special thanks to listener Charles Cage for narrating the opening of this episode. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Richard_Colvin_Cox “Oblivion: The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Cox” by Harry J. Maihafer Life Magazine (April 14, 1952) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/12/05/lost-found-a-cadets-tale/0f4340dd-a04f-43d1-8e1c-f889d5976304 West Point Magazine (Summer 2016) https://web.archive.org/web/20100122140458/http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20100117/NEWS01/1170314 https://web.archive.org/web/20130817084438/http://articles.philly.com/1988-02-28/news/26242967_1_cadet-west-point-fbi-files https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/08/22/Shipboard-killing-suspect-arrested/9641493531200/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/635987330 https://www.newspapers.com/image/635987344 https://www.newspapers.com/image/295974590/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295974725/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295980094/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295980343/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295981998/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295983211/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295985840/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295987347/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295990105/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/295991028/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/296002329/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/296005338/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/296006520/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/296010425/ “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 the 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	January 14th, 1950, West Point, New York.
0:05.0	21-year-old Richard Colvin Cox, a second-year cadet at the United States Military Academy,
0:10.8	tells his roommate that he is planning to go out to dinner with a visitor, but he does not return and has eventually reported missing.
0:18.0	During the preceding week, Cox was visited on multiple occasions by a man whose name may have been George, and Cox is believed
0:25.0	to have been with him when he vanished.
0:27.7	Over the years, there are a number of different theories presented about Cox's disappearance,
0:31.7	including that he was recruited to perform secret work for the CIA,
0:36.1	but he has not heard from again and the mysterious George is never identified.
0:41.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, for a, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh,
1:05.0	so uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:10.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:24.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be exploring an odd military themed
1:29.5	mystery, the 1950 disappearance of Richard Colvin Cox. The recent trail went cold listener voiceover contest, so thank you very much, Charles.
1:45.0	This has been a recurring monthly contest which you've been holding for nearly four years now,
1:49.6	and if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.
1:55.0	Anyway, the disappearance of Richard Colvin Cox was the case Charles requested I cover
2:00.0	when I originally entered this contest, and I've actually been wanting to do an episode about this one for a long time because it's a pretty unique story as it involves a cadet who somehow vanished while attending the United States Military Academy in West Point.
2:14.8	To give you an idea of how prestigious this place is, West Point is the oldest continuously
2:19.6	occupied military post in the United States, as the Academy was originally founded over 200 years ago in 1802
2:27.0	but Cox is the only cadet who has ever gone missing from there which is why a massive investigation took place when it happened.
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