The Trail Went Cold - Episode 235 - Shannon Green & David Dewayne Bell

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

July 6, 1986. Owensboro, Kentucky. 16-year old Shannon Green disappears after leaving her residence to visit a family friend. Days later, Shannon’s mother receives a phone call from someone calling himself “Dewayne”, who claims that he and Shannon ran away together to get married. Shortly thereafter, an 18-year old acquaintance of Shannon’s named David Dewayne Bell also goes missing. A man named John Reneer eventually provides the authorities with a tape of a recording in which Dewayne seemingly confesses to murder. Allegations surface that Dewayne killed Shannon and his father helped him cover the whole up, but if so, what actually happened to Dewayne? Could someone have been responsible for the disappearances of both victims? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a convoluted saga involving two unsolved missing persons cases from the same town and their alleged connection to each other. If you have any information about the featured cases, please contact the Owensboro Police Department at (270) 687-8888. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/shannon-rena-green https://charleyproject.org/case/david-dewayne-bell https://www.14news.com/story/4067371/14-news-investigates-killer-confession https://www.14news.com/story/4058011/stefanie-silvey-investigatesowensboro-mystery/ https://www.14news.com/story/4138121/stefanie-silvey-investigates-the-other-side https://www.14news.com/story/4061386/stefanie-silvey-investigatescaught-on-tape https://www.14news.com/story/8250791/unsolved-murders-angie-dickens-shannon-green-and-dewayne-bell/ https://echoespath.com/shannon-rena-green/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/382454414/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/381928714/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/381928739/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/381929350/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/381929358/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/382197728/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/382197748 “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	July 6th, 1986
0:03.4	Owensboro, Kentucky.
0:06.0	16 year old Shannon Green disappears after leaving a residence.
0:10.0	Days later, Shannon's mother receives a phone call from someone calling himself Duane,
0:15.0	who claims that he and Shannon ran away together to get married,
0:18.0	and shortly thereafter, an 18-year-old acquaintance of Shannon's named David Duane Bell also goes missing.
0:25.2	Investigators are eventually provided with a recording in which Duane seemingly confesses
0:29.8	to Shannon's murder, and while Duane's father is accused of covering the whole thing up, no trace of
0:35.2	Shannon or Duane is ever found. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not.
0:53.0	Oh, uh,
0:55.0	S. Ah, uh, and uh, uh,
0:57.0	and uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, So you're are. Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:19.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be covering two missing persons cases today, the
1:25.0	1986 disappearance of Shannon Green and David Dwayne Bell.
1:30.2	The Shannon Green case was originally requested to me about a year and a half ago from a listener named Tara,
1:35.3	and since we've recently passed the 35th anniversary of both these disappearances,
1:40.1	I thought it would be an ideal time to do an episode about them.
1:43.0	But I had no idea that this would turn out to be one of the most bizarre complex stories I've ever covered.
1:49.0	Shannon Green and David Dwayne Bell both vanished within five days of each other in Owensboro, Kentucky,
1:55.7	but what's unique about this story is that our second missing person has been accused of causing the first missing
2:01.5	person's disappearance.
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