The Trail Went Cold - Episode 293 - Mario Amado
The Trail Went Cold
Robin Warder
4.5 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | June 6th, 1992. Rosarito, Mexico. |
| 0:05.0 | While vacationing at a beachfront condo, |
| 0:08.0 | 29-year-old Los Angeles resident Mario Amato is arrested by the local police |
| 0:12.0 | after an alleged altercation with his girlfriend. |
| 0:15.0 | Shortly thereafter, Mario was found dead inside his jail cell and the police ruled that his death was a suicide after he hanged himself with his own sweater. |
| 0:23.4 | After Mario's brother pushes for a new investigation, his death has eventually |
| 0:28.3 | reclassified as a homicide and a police officer named Poisey Antonio Verduzko Flores is charged and convicted of Mario's murder. |
| 0:37.0 | However, Verduzko's conviction is soon overturned and he is released from prison, |
| 0:41.5 | so there are no conclusive answers about Mario's death. |
| 0:44.9 | After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, |
| 1:05.0 | uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, |
| 1:08.0 | uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be exploring a controversial case which was initially ruled to be a suicide, the unexplained |
| 1:34.4 | 1992 death of Mario Amato. |
| 1:37.9 | This case was once featured on Unsaw Mysteries and Mario was an American citizen who went |
| 1:42.3 | on vacation to Mexico with his brother, Joe Amato, and the respective girlfriends, |
| 1:47.0 | before he was arrested by the police for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. |
| 1:51.0 | Shortly after Mario was taken into custody, Joe was informed that his brother had hanged himself in his jail cell in an apparent suicide, but since there were so many suspicious discrepancy surrounding Mario's death, Joe fought very hard for a new investigation, |
| 2:05.1 | so much so that the case wound up causing some major friction in the |
| 2:09.4 | diplomatic relations between the United States and Mexico. |
| 2:12.3 | Now, unsolved mysteries featured relations between the United States and Mexico. |
| 2:13.4 | Now, Unsaw Mysteries featured a number of stories about suspicious suicides in which the victim's |
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