The Trail Went Cold - Episode 232 - Gary Simmons

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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October 15, 1974. Overland Park, Kansas. 32-year old businessman Gary Simmons leaves his office in order to purchase a horse from a man named Tom Dixon. Later that day, Gary provides authorization for Dixon to cash a $30,000 cheque he paid him, but Gary is never heard from again and Dixon also disappears after collecting the money. Seventeen years later, Gary’s skeletal remains are discovered inside a cave and it turns out he has been shot in the head. While Dixon is believed to be involved, he is never tracked down and investigators suspect that Gary may have been the victim of an elaborate murder plot orchestrated by an unknown third party. Could this person have also killed Tom Dixon? If so, what was the motive for this crime? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the baffling and convoluted unsolved murder of Gary Simmons. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/tom-dixon/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Gary_Simmons https://apnews.com/article/cf426a208f5d0da2af630c490f93e17e http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-10-20/news/9110200207_1_simmons-skeleton-gary-compton The Nevada Daily Mail (October 20, 1991) https://www.newspapers.com/image/676554618/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/676554882/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/681960576/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/681960638/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/682154238/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/676745192/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/676745195/ “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	October 15th, 1974.
0:03.0	Overland Park, Kansas.
0:06.0	32-year-old businessman Gary Simmons leaves his office in order to purchase a horse from a man named Tom Dixon.
0:12.0	Later that day, Gary provides... purchase a horse from a man named Tom Dixon.
0:13.0	Later that day, Gary provides authorization for Dixon to cash a $30,000 check,
0:18.0	but he has never heard from again,
0:20.0	and Dixon also disappears after collecting the money.
0:23.0	17 years later, Gary's skeletal remains are discovered inside a cave, and it turns
0:28.1	out he has been shot in the head.
0:30.4	Well Dixon is believed to be involved in Gary's murder.
0:33.0	He has never tracked down and investigators suspect that the whole thing was orchestrated by an unknown third party.
0:39.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not.
0:53.0	Oh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:20.9	I'm your host Robin Warner and today we're going to be covering a very bizarre case which was once featured on Unsaw Mysteries, the 1974 murder of Gary Simmons.
1:31.0	The reason I'm covering it nowons. The weekend after the release of this episode, the True Crime Podcast Festival is taking place
1:38.8	in Kansas City, Missouri, and this particular story happened to occur in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
1:45.0	Unfortunately, since the Canada-United States border is still closed for non-essential travel due to COVID,
1:52.0	I will be unable to
1:53.2	personally attend the festival, but I've been wanting to do an
1:56.2	episode about this case for quite some time and given the whole Kansas City
2:00.2	connection, this seems like the perfect opportunity.
2:04.0	Gary Simmons was a prominent businessman who lived in Overland Park, Kansas,
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