The Trail Went Cold - Episode 236 - Jill & Julie Hansen

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

November 15, 1986. Willow Creek, California. A fire breaks out at a mobile home belonging to the family of 16-year old twin sisters, Jill and Julie Hansen. Both girls receive shotgun blasts to the stomach and while Jill dies at the scene, Julie passes away at the hospital one month later. Since evidence implicates their 21-year old half-brother, Donny Hansen, he is charged with arson and murder and goes on trial for the crime. However, since eyewitnesses reported seeing two other unidentified men near the scene that night, this creates enough reasonable doubt for the jury to acquit Donny. Was Donny Hansen truly innocent of this crime or did he get away with murder? Could other suspects have been involved in what happened? On this week’s episode of the “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a bizarre murder case which tore an entire family apart. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/jill-and-julie-hansen/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jill_and_Julie_Hansen “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	November 15th, 1986.
0:04.0	Willow Creek, California.
0:06.4	When a fire breaks out at the mobile home of 16-year-old twin sisters Jill and Julie Hanson,
0:11.7	both girls receive shotgun blast to the stomach, and while Jill dies at the scene, Julie passes away at the hospital one month later.
0:19.0	Since evidence implicates their 21-year-old half-brother, Donnie Hansen, he is charged with arson and murder, and goes on trial for the crime.
0:27.0	However, since eyewitnesses reported seeing two other unidentified men near the murder scene,
0:32.0	this creates enough reasonable doubt for the jury to acquit Donnie,
0:36.0	so there are no conclusive answers about who actually killed Jill and Julie.
0:40.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, well, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh uh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:04.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:06.0	uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail went cold.
1:22.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I'm going to be covering a case from Unsall Mysteries in which the victims were a pair of twin sisters. The 1986 murders of Jill and Julie Hansen.
1:33.0	This was a pretty unique segment for the show
1:36.0	because it aired after a suspect had already gone on trial for the crime
1:40.0	and been found not guilty.
1:41.0	In essence, it was almost like a reverse final appeal segment since a number of people still believed that the defendant got away with murder.
1:50.0	Jill and Julie lived with their parents in a mobile home, but after a fire broke out in the middle of the night and burned the trailer to the ground, it would turn out that both sisters received shotgun blasts, which ultimately led to their deaths.
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