The Trail Went Cold - Episode 270 - Andre Jones

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

August 22, 1992. Brandon, Mississippi. While driving his girlfriend home, 18-year old Andre Jones is stopped at a police sobriety checkpoint and is arrested on a number of charges after his pick-up truck is determined to be stolen. Andre is transferred to the Simpson County Jail, but over 19 hours after his arrival, he is found hanging by one of his own shoelaces in a holding cell’s shower stall and the authorities rule his death to be a suicide. However, since Andre’s mother and stepfather were prominent black activists in the community, they believe he was the victim of a racially motivated murder and cover-up. A federal investigation is launched to explore a number of suspicious hanging deaths which took place in various Mississippi jails during this time period, but no conclusive evidence is found to overturn Andre’s suicide ruling. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the tragic and controversial death of Andre Jones. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/andre-jones/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Andre_Jones http://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/21/us/death-in-a-jailhouse-the-ruling-a-suicide-the-fear-a-lynching.html?pagewanted=all https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1993-02-21-9301100843-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-04-05-9304060179-story.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ms-supreme-court/1045828.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/182715053/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/182715790/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/712094224/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/238019459 https://www.newspapers.com/image/238019813/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/183898010/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/182702220/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/182703121/ “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	August 22nd, 1992.
0:03.2	Brandon, Mississippi.
0:05.4	While driving his girlfriend home, 18-year-old Andre Jones has stopped at a police sobriety
0:10.2	checkpoint and has taken into custody on a number of charges after the pickup truck he is driving is determined to be stolen.
0:17.0	Andre is transferred to the Simpson County Jail, but over 19 hours after his arrival, he is found hanging in a shower stall with one of his own shoelaces, and the authorities rule his death to be a suicide.
0:28.0	However, Andre's family believes he was the victim of a racially motivated murder, but while an investigation
0:34.5	is launched into a number of suspicious suicides which took place in various Mississippi
0:39.0	jails during this time period, there are no conclusive answers about what happened. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, yeah.
1:04.0	Oh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:25.6	I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be exploring a very controversial case
1:30.3	which was featured on Unsaw Mysteries, the unexplained 1994 death of Andre Jones.
1:36.6	As you probably know, one case which has been covered extensively on the trail went cold
1:41.0	in my spin-off podcast the Path Went Chili is the
1:43.9	1986 death of Keith Warren which was recently the subject of a new three-part
1:48.6	documentary series title Uprooted which aired on Discovery Plus. In case you're not familiar with it, Keith Warren
1:55.5	was a 19-year-old black man from the suburbs of Silver Spring, Maryland, who was found hanging
2:00.5	from a tree by a noose in a scene that seemed to resemble a lynching,
2:04.4	and even though there were a number of suspicious discrepancies pointing towards
2:07.5	foul play, the authorities ruled his death to be a suicide.
2:12.0	The victim in today's case, 18-year-old Andre Jones, was another young
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