The Trail Went Cold - Episode 269 - Theodore Kampf & Patrick Rosner

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

May 21, 1983. Yukon, Canada. The remains of a male homicide victim are discovered in a shallow grave in a remote area and since he cannot be identified, he becomes known as the “Dawson City John Doe”. Thirty-eight years later, DNA testing identifies the victim as 46-year old Theodore Kampf, who had left his home in New Jersey in 1981 to make a cross-country road trip to Canada before he disappeared. It turns out that an unknown individual cashed Theodore’s traveller’s cheques and stole his pick-up truck before abandoning it in Montana, but the actual circumstances of how Theodore was killed are unclear. June 23, 1989. Winnipeg, Manitoba. After completing his shift, 20-year old Patrick Rosner vanishes without a trace and his abandoned car is discovered two blocks away from his workplace. One year later, skeletal remains are found in a remote field over 220 kilometres away and the victim is initially believed to be female. However, in 2012, DNA testing shows that the remains actually belong to a male and he is eventually identified as Patrick Rosner, but no one knows how he wound up dead at that location. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we cover a pair of Canadian cases involving male victims whose remains were discovered a great distance away from their hometowns, but their deaths remain unsolved. Special thanks to listener Natalie Galloway for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information about the death of Theodore Kampf, please call the Yukon RCMP’s Historic Case tip line at (867) 667-5500. If you have any information about the death of Patrick Rosner, please contact the Manitoba RCMP’s Historical Case Unit at (204) 984-6447 or call Manitoba Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Additional Reading: https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2021/09/15/teddy-kampf-oaklyn-yukon-missing-man-identified-after-40-years/8356472002/ https://www.nj.com/news/2021/09/murder-victim-found-40-years-ago-in-canada-identified-as-nj-man-police-say.html https://www.njpen.com/remembering-teddy-kampf-remains-of-oaklyn-man-discovered-in-yukon-canada-after-40-year-investigation/ https://dnasolves.com/articles/yukon_rcmp_kampf/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181395325/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/181395331/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/329206336/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/498753248 https://www.newspapers.com/image/735099172 https://www.newspapers.com/image/735099497 https://www.newspapers.com/image/735434457 https://winnipegsun.com/2012/08/10/1989-cold-case-re-opened-with-dna-evidence https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/historical-death-case-reopened-by-rcmp-1.1246695 “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 going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon 2022: Vegas” at Paris & Bally’s in Las Vegas from April 29-May 1, 2022. To get a 10 % discount off a standard badge, please use our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com/. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 11-12, 2022. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD22”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “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	May 21st, 1983, Yukon, Canada.
0:04.0	The remains of a male homicide victim are discovered in a shallow grave in a remote area
0:09.0	and since he cannot be identified, he becomes known as the Dawson City John Doe.
0:14.7	38 years later, DNA testing identifies the victim as 46-year-old Theodore Comf, who had left his home
0:20.7	in New Jersey in 1981 to make a cross-country road trip to Canada before he disappeared.
0:27.1	It turns out that an unknown individual cashed Theodore's traveler's checks and stole his pickup
0:32.2	truck before abandoning it in Montana, but the actual circumstances
0:35.8	of how Theodore was killed are unclear. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm going to.
0:53.0	Oh, uh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh uh uh... uh... uh... Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold. I'm your
1:21.9	host Robin Water and on this, we're going to be covering two cold cases
1:26.4	from our podcast's home country of Canada, the 1981 death of Theodore Camp, and the 1989 death of
1:33.2	Patrick Rosner.
1:34.2	That voice you just heard narrating this intro was Natalie Galloway,
1:38.1	the latest winner of our most recent Trail Went Cold listener
1:41.5	voiceover contest, so thank you very much Natalie.
1:44.6	This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been holding for nearly five years now, and
1:48.8	if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.
1:54.0	Anyway, the trail went cold recently reached a milestone where we covered at least one
1:58.3	cold case from all 50 American states, so one of our next goals will be to cover at least one case from every Canadian
2:05.0	province and territory, as at the time of this recording, we've only done about half of them.
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