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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 24 - Patsy Wright

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

October 23, 1987. Arlington, Texas. 43-year old Patsy Wright phones up her sister in the middle of the night to complain that she has become nauseous after taking some NyQuil, but collapses during the call and soon passes away. An autopsy eventually reveals that Patsy was poisoned after strychnine was put in her NyQuil. The investigation would uncover multiple suspects with a motive to murder Patsy, but no evidence to implicate anyone. Our first “Trail Went Cold” episode of 2017 analyzes a real-life whodunit which resembles an Agatha Christie murder mystery. Additional Reading: http://unsolved.com/archives/patsy-wright http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1989/august/t-h-e-wax-museum-murder-mystery/ http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1990/february/the-name-is-dear-bill-dear/ The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Transcript

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0:00.0

October 23rd, 1987, Arlington, Texas.

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43-year-old Patsy Wright phones up her sister in the middle of the night to complain that she has become

0:11.3

nauseous after taking some NyQuil, but collapses during the call.

0:15.9

Even when her sister-in-law rush over to help her, Patsy dies in her bed,

0:20.4

and an autopsy reveals that she was poisoned after Strick-9 was put in her NyQuil.

0:25.0

Evidence suggests that someone else may have had dinner at Patsy's house on the night of her death,

0:30.0

but this person was never identified, and Patsy's killer and the motor for poisoning remain unknown.

0:37.0

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm going to.

0:53.0

Oh, uh,

0:55.0

S. Ah, eh. And, eh.

0:57.0

And, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh,

0:58.0

and uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

1:04.0

uh, okay. Oh, uh, uh, Happy New Year everyone and welcome to the first Trail Went Cold episode of 2017.

1:21.0

I am your host Robin Warder and I can tell you that this is going to be a very exciting and memorable year for our podcast

1:28.0

So I've decided to start off 2017 with a mystery which has been requested by a lot of people from the Unsolved Mysteries

1:35.1

Message Board I frequent at the sitcoms online forum, the 1987 poisoning death of Patsy

1:41.4

Wright. This case has been requested from the board's

1:44.3

moderator who goes by the username Looks Like C Ricci and a couple of other posters

1:49.6

there who go by the username's Dallas Texan and 88 Keys.

1:54.0

And in case you haven't heard the news,

1:56.0

classic episodes of Unsolved Mysteries

1:58.0

are finally going to be available for streaming

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