The Trail Went Cold - Episode 289 - Justin Burgwinkel

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

June 12, 1993. Santa Clara, California. 21-year old U.S. Army Private Justin Burgwinkel leaves his girlfriend’s apartment and never returns. One week earlier, Justin had gone AWOL from Fort Lewis, the post where he was stationed in Washington state, and kept hinting to his girlfriend that he was working on some sort of secret mission. Three months later, Justin’s abandoned car is found at a motel in Monterey with his military dog tags and most of his personal items inside. While the Army denies that Justin was ever involved in any secret operations, no trace of him is ever found. Did Justin Burgwinkel go missing because he became involved in something sinister? Or did he suffer some sort of mental breakdown and lose his grip on reality? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the unsolved disappearance of a soldier who has not been seen in three decades. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Clinton Police Department at (978) 365-4111. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/justin-burgwinkel/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Justin_Burgwinkel http://charleyproject.org/case/justin-burgwinkel https://www.newspapers.com/image/626359358/ “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	June 12th, 1993.
0:02.9	Santa Clara, California.
0:05.5	21-year-old U.S. Army Private Justin Bergwinkle leaves his girlfriend's apartment and
0:10.2	never returns.
0:11.8	One week earlier, Justin had gone AWOL from Fort Lewis, the post where he was stationed in Washington, and kept hinting to his girlfriend that he was working on some sort of secret mission. Three months later, Justin's abandoned cars
0:24.6	founded a motel in Monterrey with his military dog tags and most of his personal
0:29.4	items inside. And while the Army denies that Justin was ever involved in any secret operation, no trace of them has ever found.
0:37.0	After that, the trail went cold. old. Oh, uh, I'm not.
0:53.0	Oh, uh,
0:55.0	S. Uh, and uh, and uh,
0:57.0	and uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh, okay.
1:05.0	Okay.
1:07.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh... uh... Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:19.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be exploring a bizarre mystery involving a
1:24.2	missing soldier from the United States Army, the 1993 disappearance of Justin Burgwinkle.
1:30.9	This case was featured on unsolved mysteriesolved Mysteries and not surprisingly I have received numerous requests to cover this one since the inception of this podcast.
1:38.0	During the mid-1990s, Unsolved Mysteries went through a period where they produced a lot of segments involving potential conspiracies within the military.
1:47.0	They would usually focus on an American servicemen who was found dead under suspicious circumstances,
1:52.0	but even though their deaths were officially
1:54.1	ruled to be suicides, their loved ones were certain that they were murdered and the military
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