February 23, 1974. Los Angeles, California. Police are summoned to the home of 41-year-old Ted

Losef after his wife Wilda Losef claims that he threatened her with a gun. When police

enter the residence, they find Ted's body inside his car in the garage after he has seemingly

taken his own life by a 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 have hired

someone to murder him and stage his suicide. While the investigation is eventually reopened,

there is not enough evidence to charge anyone with murder, so the actual circumstances of Ted's

death remain murky. After 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 this week we're going to be covering a controversial case from unsolved

mysteries which is ruled to be a suicide, the 1974 unexplained death of Ted Losef. As I'm

sure you're well aware, unsolved mysteries featured their fair share of stories about victims

who died under suspicious circumstances and while the authorities believed their death was a suicide,

the victims loved ones were certain that they were murdered. 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 certain that no foul play had taken place that they never even bothered

to perform an autopsy. At the time of his death, Ted seemed to be on the verge of ending a tumultuous

marriage with his estranged wife, Willda, but as the years went on, Ted's mother would uncover

evidence to suggest her son was murdered and that Willda orchestrated the whole thing.

Now since Willda had a pretty airtight alibi during the time Ted died, there's no way she could

have killed him herself, so the prevalent theory is that she hired someone to murder Ted and staged

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