The Trail Went Cold - Episode 239 - Ted Loseff

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

February 23, 1974. Los Angeles, California. Police are summoned to the home of 41-year old orthopedic surgeon Ted Loseff after his wife, Wilda, claims that he threatened her with a gun. When police search the residence, they find Ted’s body inside his car in the garage and he has seemingly taken his own life via carbon monoxide poisoning. However, Ted’s mother discovers a number of suspicious discrepancies to suggest her son did not kill himself and that Wilda may hired someone to murder him and stage the suicide scene. While a coronial inquest takes place and the investigation is eventually reopened, there is not enough evidence to charge anyone with a crime. Was Ted Loseff’s death really a suicide or was he the victim of an elaborate murder-for-hire plot? We explore both sides of this very controversial case on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/ted-loseff/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Ted_Loseff https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-04-21-me-13201-story.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/169546053/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/389014084/ “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	February 23rd, 1974, Los Angeles, California.
0:06.3	Police are summoned to the home of 41-year-old Ted Losef
0:09.4	after his wife Wilda Losef claims that he threatened her with a gun.
0:13.0	When police enter the residence, they find Ted's body inside his car in the garage
0:18.0	after he is seemingly taken his own life by a carbon monoxide poisoning.
0:22.0	However, Ted's mother discovers a number of suspicious
0:25.8	discrepancies to suggest her son did not kill himself and that Wilda may have hired someone
0:30.7	to murder him and staged his suicide.
0:33.6	While the investigation is eventually reopened, there is not enough evidence to charge anyone
0:38.2	with murder, so the actual circumstances of Ted's death remain murky.
0:43.2	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.
1:03.0	Oh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:10.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:25.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be covering a controversial case from Unsaw Mysteries which was ruled to be a suicide, the 1974 unexplained death of Ted Losef.
1:37.2	As I'm sure you're well aware, Unsaw Mysteries featured their fair share of stories about victims
1:42.0	who died under suspicious circumstances, and while the authorities believe their death was a suicide, the victim's loved ones were certain that they were murdered.
1:50.0	The story of Ted Losef is unique in that it initially seemed pretty obvious that he took his own life as he was found inside a running car in his garage and a suicide note he had seemingly written was in the house. In fact the authorities were so
2:04.4	certain that no foul play had taken place that they never even bothered to perform an
2:08.6	autopsy. At the time of his death, Ted seemed to be on the verge of ending a tumultuous marriage with his
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