The Trail Went Cold – Episode 261 – Gracie Nash & John Davis Jr.
The Trail Went Cold
Robin Warder
4.5 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | December 26, 1983. |
| 0:03.3 | Austin, Texas. |
| 0:05.2 | After leaving her workplace, 39-year-old Gracie Nash |
| 0:08.4 | vanished without a trace and her abandoned car |
| 0:11.0 | assumed discovered with a large amount of blood inside. |
| 0:14.0 | Just over one month later, Gracie's brother, 43-year-old |
| 0:17.5 | John David's junior, is fatally shot outside his residence. |
| 0:21.5 | Suspicion falls upon a woman named Naomi Easley, |
| 0:24.5 | who launched a campaign of harassment and violence |
| 0:26.9 | against the victim's brother Melvin |
| 0:28.7 | after a tumultuous breakup. |
| 0:31.0 | Even though Naomi eventually goes to prison |
| 0:33.0 | for another murder, no evidence links her to John's death, |
| 0:36.4 | and Gracie remains a missing person. |
| 0:39.1 | After that, the trail went cold. |
| 0:41.6 | aer kingdoms |
| 1:05.1 | Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm your host Robin Warder and on today's episode we're going to be exploring a truly |
| 1:26.1 | bizarre story involving two separate victims, the 1983 disappearance of Gracie Nash and |
| 1:32.1 | a subsequent 1984 murder of her brother, John Davis Jr. As I'm sure you know, one of |
| 1:38.0 | this podcast's biggest influences is the Missing Persons website The Charlie Project |
| 1:42.7 | run by Megan Good. There have been multiple occasions where I've stumbled across a right |
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