The Trail Went Cold - Episode 257 - Update, Part 2

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Since “The Trail Went Cold” originally launched in February 2016, we have featured over 300 cold cases and unsolved mysteries on the podcast and a decent amount of them have either wound up being solved or had significant developments take place. Two years ago, we released a special “update” episode which detailed a lot of these developments, but there have since been many more new updates to share. Examples include the identification of the Sumter County Does; an arrest in the murders of Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee, a.k.a. “The Orange Sock Murders”; the overturning of a wrongful conviction for the murders of Harold and Thelma Swain, and a number of shocking revelations in the murder of 12-year old Jonelle Matthews. These are just a few of the cases we are going to discuss in our second special “update” episode of “The Trail Went Cold”. To listen to our previous “update” episode from January 2020, click here:https://www.trailwentcold.com/2020/01/01/the-trail-went-cold-episode-155-update/ Additional Reading: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jonelle-matthews-murder-kidnapping-steve-pankey-person-of-interest-48-hours/ https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/steve-pankey-trial-verdict/73-48c6aa60-d61a-401d-ac43-d375ce25955e https://denver.cbslocal.com/2020/10/13/steve-pankey-arrested-jonelle-matthews-murder-greeley-1984/ https://denver.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909806/2020/10/Steve-Pankey-Indictment.pdf https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19735658.renee-macrae-murder-accused-face-trial-next-year/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-58719355 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/jose-rodriguez-cruz-sentenced-second-killing/2021/04/09/4dce72d6-995a-11eb-a6d0-13d207aadb78_story.html https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/12/man-accused-of-lying-in-tracy-kroh-case-accepts-sentence-gets-immediate-parole.html https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/dauphin-county/woman-charged-with-perjury-related-to-tracy-kroh-cold-case-sentenced/521-2c0a860a-f2d6-4fd7-a49b-680a8f911a3d https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/03/03/alan-lee-phillips-bobbie-jo-oberholtzer-annette-schnee-park-county-arrest-murder-breckenridge/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/us/phillips-colorado-sos-murder.html https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/04/09/cold-case-arrest-michael-jefferson-charged-murdering-roger-dean-1985/ https://people.com/crime/dna-taken-water-bottle-1985-cold-case-killing-arrest/ https://www.ktoo.org/2020/09/09/23-years-ago-the-state-of-alaska-tried-the-wrong-man-for-the-murder-of-a-sitka-teenager-now-police-say-theyve-found-the-real-killer-why-wasnt-he-a-suspect-all-along/ https://people.com/crime/bethany-decker-missing-virginia-woman-boyfriend-charged-murder/ https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/lancaster-man-identified-44-years-after-being-found-dead-in-south-carolina-cold-case-reopened/article_951c9398-5cb5-11eb-bac3-5737c46afda3.html https://www.twincities.com/2021/11/12/14-year-old-girl-identified-as-victim-in-1980-texas-cold-case-homicide-had-forest-lake-stillwater-connections/ https://meaww.com/angela-hammond-ransom-note-abduction-pregnant-mistaken-identity-informant https://www.ajc.com/alibi-story/ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/23/us/dennis-perry-charges-dropped-swain-murder-case.html https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2021/05/20/state-attorney-agrees-to-let-tommy-zeigler-perform-dna-testing/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2021/10/20/debate-over-dna-testing-for-death-row-inmate-headed-to-florida-supreme-court/ “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 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	And the Hello everyone and welcome to our final Trailwood Cold episode of 2021.
0:25.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and if you grew up watching Unsall Mysteries, you'll probably remember
0:29.7	the thrill of tuning into an episode and hearing Robert Stack utter the word update while this music of T
0:37.6	back tuning into an episode and hearing Robert Stack utter the word update while this music you just heard played in the background.
0:36.7	Back on January the 1st, 2020 we dropped a special update episode of the Trail and Cold, in which I discussed all the cases I had covered on the podcast which have since been solved or a major developments take place.
0:49.0	While I'm pleased to announce that over the past two years even more cases have been solved or
0:53.8	in major developments so I'm now releasing a second update episode and will
0:58.2	definitely have plenty of new material to discuss updates to
1:05.0	updates to trail with cold cases which have taken place since the end of
1:10.2	2019.
1:11.2	If you want to hear more about the updates which have taken place before that
1:15.5	and you haven't listened to our original update episode, which is episode number 155,
1:20.6	then I suggest you go back and check it out as some of the updates we'll be talking
1:24.5	about here are add-ons to the updates from that episode. Anyway without any further
1:29.3	ado let us now begin the Trailit- with cold's second update episode.
1:34.0	So I want to begin with a case which I already discussed on our previous update episode, but man, there have been a lot of new development since then, and I'll be discussing what might be the most surreal experience I've ever had since I launched the trail went cold nearly six years ago
2:03.2	On January 25th, 2017, back when this podcast was still doing shorter minisodes, I covered the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl named Janelle Matthews
2:06.8	on Minnesode number 11.
2:08.8	On the evening of December the 20th, 1984,
2:11.7	Janelle had sang an acquire at a Christmas concert in her hometown of Greeley, Colorado before she was dropped off at home by her friend's father.
2:19.0	At the time, Janelle's mother was out of town and her father and older sister were at a high school
2:24.8	basketball game, but when they returned home later that night, Janelle was not there, and the
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