June 2nd, 2007. San Francisco, California.

Uggdela Plaza, a 36-year-old sound engineer with dual French and American citizenship,

returns to his apartment after spending the evening at a club.

One morning hits, Ugg is found stabbed to death.

Since the security camera shows no one else heading in the direction of Ugg's apartment

that night, police explore the possibility that Ugg committed suicide, and his death

is classified as undetermined.

However, Ugg's family discovered disturbing discrepancies which suggest he was murdered,

and are forced to bring in the national police from France to conduct a proper investigation.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and today we will be covering a case which was requested

a few months ago by a French listener named Tyrie, the suspicious 2007 death of Uggdela Plaza.

The victim here was originally born in France, but moved to the United States and attained

dual citizenship.

His death has received some mainstream coverage in North America, and was the subject of

an episode of 48 hours in 2009.

But due to the controversial nature of this case, it has gotten a lot more play in the

French media.

Now I know I've been critical of police investigations in some of the previous cases I covered, and I

don't want anyone to think I have some sort of anti-law enforcement stance.

Most of the time they do a phenomenal job.

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