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.

38 years later, DNA testing identifies a victim as 46-year-old Theodore Comff,

who had left his home in New Jersey in 1981 to make a cross-country road-tripped Canada before he disappeared.

It turns out that an unknown individual cached Theodore's Traveler's checks

and stole his pickup truck before abandoning it in Montana,

but the actual circumstances of how Theodore was killed are unclear.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Watter, and on this episode, we're going to be covering two cold cases

from our podcast Home Country of Canada, the 1981 death of Theodore Comff and the 1989 death of Patrick Rosner.

That voice you just heard narrating this intro was Natalie Galloway, the latest winner of our most recent Trail Went Cold,

listener voiceover contest, so thank you very much Natalie.

This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been holding for nearly five years now,

and if you'd like to enter and have an hour you've done so, I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.

Anyway, the trail went cold recently reached a milestone where we recovered at least one cold case from all 50 American states,

so one of our next goals will be to cover at least one case from every Canadian province and territory,

as at the time of this recording, we've only done about half of them.

So on this episode, we're going to move closer to that goal by covering one mystery from the Yukon territory and another from Manitoba.

There are a number of similarities between the deaths of Theodore Comff and Patrick Rosner,

as both of them vanished without a trace and remained missing persons for decades before they were linked to the discovery of an unidentified John Doe.

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