The Trail Went Cold - Episode 233 - Wallace Guidroz & Lenoria Jones

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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January 10, 1983. Tacoma, Washington. Two-year old Wallace Guidroz is reported missing by his father, Stanley Guidroz, who claims that he brought Wallace to a local park and last saw him in the company of an unidentified couple and a young girl. 28 years later, Stanley is charged with an unrelated murder and confesses that he accidentally killed Wallace and disposed of his body. However, since Stanley’s confession is supressed by the court, he does not go on trial for the crime. A search fails to turn up Wallace’s remains or any other corroborating evidence, creating uncertainty about what actually happened. July 20, 1995. Three-year old Lenoria Jones is reported missing by her great-aunt, Berlean Williams, who claims that the girl vanished while they visited a Target department store. When investigators check the store’s security tape and find no trace of Lenoria on the surveillance footage, they begin to question Berlean’s version of events. Even though Berlean keeps changing her story, she continues to deny any involvement in Lenoria’s disappearance and there are no conclusive answers about how or why she went missing. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold’, we cover two cold cases involving missing children from Tacoma, Washington where suspicion has been placed on their guardian. If you have any information about either of these cases, please contact the Tacoma Police Department at (253) 798-4721. Join us on Saturday, July 10 at 8:00pm ET for an online streaming marathon where we will be watching classic segments from “Unsolved Mysteries”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/wallace-guidroz https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/no-remains-found-in-tacoma-cold-case/ https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/justice/father-charged-son-death/index.html https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_dc6e7284-4db7-5f57-8fff-b482aeea9eec.html https://mynorthwest.com/15369/tacoma-father-pleads-not-guilty-in-decades-old-murder-of-young-son/amp/ https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article110445237.html https://casetext.com/case/state-v-guidroz-11 https://charleyproject.org/case/lenoria-eleise-anne-jones https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19950724&slug=2133043 https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/jan/21/woman-grilled-over-missing-girl-released-from/ https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article27561907.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/575900869/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/535697859/ “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	We would like to send out a special thanks to the fun and challenging best fiends,
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0:17.0	January 10th, 1983. Tacoma, Washington Two-year-old
0:24.7	year old Wallace Giedros is reported missing by his father Stanley Giedros who claims
0:29.2	that he brought Wallace to a local park and last saw him in the company of an unidentified couple and a young girl.
0:35.5	28 years later, Stanley is charged with an unrelated murder and confesses that he accidentally
0:40.8	killed Wallace and disposed of his body. However, Stanley's confession is suppressed by the court, and since the search fails to turn up any trace of Wallace, he continues to remain a missing person. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
1:04.0	uh, but uh, uh, and uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
1:15.0	so and uh,
1:16.0	uh, uh,
1:18.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail and Cold.
1:35.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be exploring two missing children's cases.
1:40.1	The 1983 disappearance of two-year-old Wallace Gidros and the 1995 disappearance of two-year-old Wallace Giedrows,
1:43.4	and the 1995 disappearance of three-year-old Lenoria Jones.
1:47.4	Over the years, I received separate requests to cover each of these cases,
1:51.9	and even though they're not connected there are a number of similarities between them
1:55.8	So I figured it would be a good idea to feature both of them on today's episode
2:00.6	Wallace and the Nori were both persons of color who went missing in Tacoma, Washington.
2:05.2	The two children were each reported missing by family members who claimed to have lost
2:10.0	them in a public place, but the authorities would find discrepancies in their stories to make
2:15.0	them believe they were not telling the full truth.
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