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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 290 - Chris Metallic & Dean Mortensen

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

November 25, 2012. Sackville, New Brunswick. While attending a house party, 20-year old Mount Allison University student Chris Metallic becomes intoxicated and starts walking back to his residence, but he never arrives. Nearly four hours later, an eyewitness spots Chris walking down a rural road located 15 kilometres away before he disappears into the woods. A search of the area turns up some footprints and a pair of flip-flops Chris had been wearing, but Chris himself is never found and there is no explanation for how he wound up at this location. January 24, 1992. Edmonton, Alberta. After spending the evening drinking at a campus pub, 19-year old University of Alberta student Dean Mortensen heads back to his dorm with friends. Dean’s friends soon realize that they have forgotten something at the pub and head back to retrieve it, but when they return to the spot where they last saw Dean, he is nowhere to be found and it soon becomes apparent that he never returned to his dorm room. While a search of the area eventually turns up a hat which Dean was believed to have been wearing, there is no other evidence to indicate how or why he went missing. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will be exploring two unsolved missing persons cases from Canada involving male university students who vanished after a night of drinking. Special thanks to listener Darielle Rudnicki for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information on the disappearance of Chris Metallic, please the Sackville detachment of the RCMP at (506) 364-5023 or the Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). If you have any information on the disappearance of Dean Mortenson, please contact the Edmonton Police Service at (780) 423-4567. Additional Reading: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/missing-chris-metallic-cases-sackville-active-1.4417738 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/chris-metallic-rcmp-search-1.3862409 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/chris-metallic-s-family-continues-to-search-for-the-missing-man-1.2965869 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/anti-terror-bill-bank-pres-on-inequality-growing-old-searching-for-lost-brother-dopamine-1.2945062/answer-back-brother-1.2946442 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/missing-mount-allison-student-wore-shoes-found-in-woods-1.1179412 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/missing-mount-allison-student-s-family-in-shock-1.1135136 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/chris-metallic-honoured-2-years-after-disappearance-1.2639184 https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-b-rcmp-using-specially-trained-dog-to-search-for-man-reported-missing-in-2012-1.3172909 https://www.macleans.ca/education/university/dean-mortensen-disappeared-leaving-only-a-blue-ball-cap-behind/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/474142691/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/476390781/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/473958027/ https://issuu.com/ualbertaalumni/docs/ntspring2007/8 https://www.canadaunsolved.com/cases/missing-dean-mortensen-1992-edmonton-ab https://defrostingcoldcases.com/missing-dean-curtis-mortensen/ “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 Vokl 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

November 25th, 2012, Sackville, New Brunswick.

0:06.0

While attending a house party, 20-year-old university student Chris metallic becomes intoxicated and leaves to walk back to his residence but never arrives.

0:16.0

Nearly four hours later, an eyewitness spots Chris walking down a rural road located 15 kilometers away before he disappears into the woods.

0:27.8

A search of the area turns up some footprints and a pair of flip-flops Chris had been wearing, but Chris himself is never found

0:36.2

and there is no explanation for how he wound up at this location. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, right, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.

1:03.0

Oh, uh, uh, so good.

1:05.0

And, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

1:08.0

uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold. I'm your

1:24.1

host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be returning to our podcast home

1:28.7

country of Canada to cover a pair of unsolved missing persons cases,

1:33.0

the 2012 disappearance of Chris Metallic,

1:35.8

and the 1992 disappearance of Dean Mortensen.

1:38.8

That voice you just heard narrating our intro

1:41.6

was Darry L

1:46.9

Ruddnicki the latest winner of our most recent Trail went Cold listener

1:46.5

voiceover contest so thank you very much Darry L'arell. It was five years ago this

1:50.9

month when I first launched this contest and when I recently picked

1:54.4

Darry L's name and looked back through my original emails, I was surprised to discover that she

1:59.1

was officially the very first listener to send an email to enter. So I guess good things do come to those who wait.

2:06.2

Anyway, this is still a recurring monthly contest, and if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so,

2:12.1

I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode.

2:15.0

As you probably know, earlier this year, the trail would cold reached a milestone in which we managed to cover at least one cold case from all 50 American states.

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