The Trail Went Cold - Episode 286 - Tracey Ann Patient

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

January 29, 1976. Auckland, New Zealand. 13-year old Tracey Ann Patient leaves her friend’s house to walk home, but never arrives. The following day, Tracey’s body is discovered in some bushes located sixteen kilometres from where she was last seen. She has been strangled to death with a pair of pantyhose which were tightened around her neck with a stick. Nearly two years later, police receive an anonymous phone call from a man who claims that a missing signet ring Tracey had worn can be found in a rubbish bin and he also provides a series of numbers which he says are connected to the case. Even though investigators do recover the ring from this location, they are unable to figure out the meaning of the caller’s numbers and Tracey’s killer is never identified. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel down under to New Zealand to explore one of their most prominent unsolved murder cases. Special thanks to listener Kimberly Wyse for narrating the opening of this episode. Additional Reading: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tracey-ann-patient-killing-the-40-year-murder-mystery-that-has-haunted-nz/VSMDAWN5KFCBONOD6FMFMCD3VM/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/80206223/tracey-ann-patient-cold-case-new-witness-comes-forward https://nz.news.yahoo.com/hope-theyve-had-awful-life-222731350.html https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/police-flooded-calls-cold-case https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/news/real-life/i-want-justice-for-my-sister-5628 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/man-questioned-on-34-year-old-unsolved-tracey-patient-murder/Z7H662EVGI72VBKFFDO7DUBTRU/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/cold-cases-the-murdered-and-the-missing-new-information-revealed-for-rotorua-cases/HRCOEZU4V3HDRRK25IOJAM4ZVE/ “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” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/ “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	January 29th, 1976, Auckland, New Zealand.
0:08.0	13-year-old Tracy Ann Patient leaves her friend's house to walk home, but she never arrives.
0:14.1	The following day, Tracy's body is discovered in some bushes, and she has been strangled to death
0:20.0	with a pair of panty hose, which were tightened around her neck with a stick.
0:25.2	Nearly two years later police receive an anonymous phone call from a man who claims
0:30.4	that a ring Tracy had worn can be found in a rubbish bin and he also provides a series of
0:36.0	numbers which he says are connected to the case. Even though police do recover the ring from
0:41.7	this location they are unable to figure out the
0:44.6	meaning of the caller's numbers and Tracy's killer is never identified.
0:49.5	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, it's not. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:15.0	uh, uh, uh,
1:16.0	uh, uh,
1:18.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh... Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:32.1	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be traveling
1:35.0	down under to New Zealand to cover an unsolved 46 year old coal case, the 1976 murder
1:40.8	of Tracy and Patient. That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Kimberly wise the latest winner of our most recent trail went cold listener voiceover contest so thank you very much Kimberly
1:51.6	This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been holding for nearly five years now and if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.
2:02.0	So the Trail went Cold has only ever covered one case from New Zealand,
2:06.0	which was the 1975 disappearance of Mona Blades.
2:09.0	And since that episode came out over three and a half years ago,
2:12.0	I thought we were long overdue to go back there and explore another mystery.
2:16.0	The murder of 13 year old Tracy Ann Patient is actually one of New Zealand's more prominent cold cases,
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