The Trail Went Cold – Episode 271 – The Feeney Family Murders
The Trail Went Cold
Robin Warder
4.5 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | February 27th, 1995. |
| 0:23.5 | Springfield, Missouri. |
| 0:25.0 | The bodies of 35-year-old Cheryl Fini and her two children, 6-year-old Tyler and 19-month-old Jennifer, |
| 0:32.0 | are all discovered inside their separate bedrooms at their residence. |
| 0:36.5 | Cheryl and Tyler have been bludgeoned to death while Jennifer was strangled and the house is completely ransacked. |
| 0:42.0 | Even though the family's 35-year-old patriarch John Fini was at a conference 90 miles away, |
| 0:47.0 | investigators suspect that he drove back home to commit the murders and fabricated an alibi for himself. |
| 0:53.0 | One year later, John is charged with the crime, but since no conclusive evidence links him to the scene, |
| 0:59.0 | he winds up being acquitted at trial, so the actual truth about who was responsible for the Fini family murders remain unknown. |
| 1:06.0 | After that, the trail went cold. |
| 1:36.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm your host Robin Warder, and on today's episode, we're going to be covering a case involving the murders of a mother and her two children, the 1995 murders of the Fini family. |
| 1:58.0 | I've had this one on my list of case suggestions for nearly three years, as it was originally sent to be by a list of named Rachel, |
| 2:05.0 | but I've only recently got around to digging into it, and I find it surprising that the case is not more well known. |
| 2:11.0 | After Cheryl Fini and her two children were all found brutally murdered inside their home, |
| 2:16.0 | suspicion turned towards the family's patriarch John Fini, who also happened to be a local high school science teacher. |
| 2:23.0 | The problem is that John was attending a conference 90 miles away when the crime took place, |
| 2:28.0 | but investigators came to believe that he left his hotel in the middle of the night, drove back home to murder his family, |
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