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 […]

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0:00.0	July 6, 1986.
0:02.7	Owen's Borough, Kentucky.
0:06.2	Sixteen-year-old Shannon Green disappears after leaving a residence.
0:10.1	Days later, Shannon's mother receives a phone call from someone calling himself DeWade,
0:15.2	who claims that he and Shannon ran away together to get married, and shortly thereafter,
0:20.0	an 18-year-old acquaintance of Shannon's named David DeWade Bell also goes missing.
0:25.7	Investigators are eventually provided with a recording in which DeWade seemingly confesses
0:29.8	to Shannon's murder, and while DeWade's father is accused of covering the whole thing up,
0:34.8	no trace of Shannon or DeWade is ever found.
0:38.3	After that, the trail went cold.
1:08.3	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:19.7	I'm your host Robin Warder, and we're going to be covering two missing persons cases
1:24.0	today.
1:25.0	The 1986 disappearances of Shannon Green and David DeWade Bell.
1:30.2	The Shannon Green case was originally requested to me about a year and a half ago from a listener
1:34.5	named Tara, and since we've recently passed the 35th anniversary of both these disappearances,
1:40.3	I thought it would be an ideal time to do an episode about them.
1:44.0	But I had no idea that this would turn out to be one of the most bizarre, complex stories
1:48.1	I've ever covered.
1:50.1	Shannon Green and David DeWade Bell both vanished within five days of each other in Onesboro
1:54.8	Kentucky, but what's unique about this story is that our second missing person has been
1:59.5	accused of causing the first missing person's disappearance.
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