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Enjoy the show! August 10, 1991. Martin Spurg, West Virginia.

The nude body of 44-year-old freelance investigative journalist Danny Casalero is discovered in the

bathtub of his hotel room. Each of his wrists have been slashed multiple times, but since a suicide

notice found and there is no evidence to foul play, Danny's death is ruled to be a suicide.

Prior to his death, Danny claimed that he was working on a massive story about widespread

government corruption which he titled de octopus and had traveled to Martin's Burke to meet a source

who would provide important information. Since the investigation uncovers a number of suspicious

discrepancies, Danny's loved ones believe he was murdered and that a cover-up took place,

but there are no conclusive answers about what happened. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin

Warner and today I'm finally going to be tackling a case which I've been wanting to cover on this

podcast for a long, long time. The unexplained 1991 death of Danny Casalero. Or rather, we're going

to explore the bizarre conspiracy known as the octopus. This case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries

and has always been one of my most highly requested cases since the inception of this podcast,

but the whole thing is such a massive rabbit hole containing a wealth of information I had to make

sure I was in the right frame of mind before I took this on. And as a result, this is going to be one

of our longest standalone episodes. Danny Casalero was a freelance investigative journalist who decided

to take on a story involving stolen software, but the whole endeavor wound up becoming much bigger

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