November 15th, 1986.

Willow Creek, California.

When a fire breaks out at the mobile home of 16-year-old twin sisters Jill and Julie Hanson,

both girls receive shock on blast 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, Donnie Hanson, he is charged with

Arsene and murder and goes on trial for the crime.

However, since eyewitnesses reported seeing two other unidentified men near the murder scene,

this creates enough reasonable doubt for the jury to acquit Donnie so there are no conclusive

answers about who actually killed Jill and Julie.

For that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and today I'm going to be covering a case from unsolved

mysteries in which the victims were a pair of twin sisters, the 1986 murders of Jill

and Julie Hanson.

This was a pretty unique segment for the show because it aired after a suspect it

already gone on trial for the crime and then found not guilty.

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.

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 shock on blasts which ultimately led to their deaths.

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