The Trail Went Cold - Episode 259 - Laurie Depies

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

August 19, 1992. Menasha, Wisconsin. After leaving her workplace, 20-year old Laurie Depies drives to her boyfriend’s apartment complex and parks her car before she vanishes without a trace. Even though witnesses heard her vehicle pull into the lot, they do not report hearing or seeing anything unusual and the only evidence is a cup of soda left on top of the car’s roof. Eighteen years later, a convicted kidnapper named Larry DeWayne Hall confesses to abducting and murdering Laurie, but a search for her remains turns up nothing and no corroborating evidence is found to support his story. Was Larry DeWayne Hall actually responsible for Laurie Depies’ disappearance or could she have been abducted and harmed by someone she knew? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the unsolved disappearance of a young woman who seemingly vanished into thin air during a very narrow window of time. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Menasha Police Department at (920) 720-7109 Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. That’s “friends” without the “r” – Best Fiends. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/laurie-jean-depies https://www.wbay.com/2021/08/19/laurie-depies-disappeared-29-years-ago/ https://ca.style.yahoo.com/laurie-depies-best-friend-says-080048936.html https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2019/04/22/laurie-depies-dr-phil-highlights-missing-appleton-woman/3511606002/ https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/local/2015/08/21/laurie-depies-years-gone/32111947/ https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2017/08/17/what-happened-laurie-depies-who-vanished-1992/551743001/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/wisconsin-cold-case-cracked-inmate-confesses-laurie-depies/story?id=13622809 https://www.newspapers.com/image/360102981/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/360103075/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/290436962/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/360546240 https://www.newspapers.com/image/360546242/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ibf4qk/the_laurie_depies_disappearance_after_teresa/ “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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0:21.2	August 19th 1992
0:24.4	Monasha, Wisconsin
0:26.7	After leaving her workplace, 20-year-old Laurie Dept has drives to her boyfriend's apartment
0:31.2	complex and parks her car before she vanishes without a trace.
0:35.4	Even though witness has heard her vehicle pull into the lot,
0:38.0	the U-N-O-T report hearing or seeing anything unusual and the only evidence is a cup of soda
0:43.3	left on top of the car's roof. 18 years later, I convicted Ken Napper named Larry DeWain Hall
0:49.1	confesses to abducting and murdering Laurie, the no-corroborating evidence is found to support his
0:54.0	story and Laurie remains a missing person. After that, the trail went cold.
1:24.4	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail,
1:37.5	went cold. I'm your host, Robin Warder and today we're going to be exploring an odd missing
1:42.4	person's case, the 1992 disappearance of Laurie Dept. This case was suggested to me about two
1:48.8	years ago by a listener named Beth and it's one of those frustrating disappearances where it seems
1:53.6	like the victim literally just vanished into thin air. Right before she went missing,
1:58.5	Laurie parked her car at her boyfriend's apartment complex but even though something obviously
2:03.0	happened to her right after she exited her vehicle, no one heard or saw a thing.
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