The Trail Went Cold - Episode 294 - Roger Ellison

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

February 10, 1981. Cedaredge, Colorado. After showing up at Cedaredge High School, 17-year old senior Roger Ellison places his books inside his locker, but he never attends any of his classes that day and vanishes without a trace. Months later, one of Roger’s teachers comes under suspicion when he allegedly makes some bizarre statements to Roger’s mother, but no evidence links him to Roger’s disappearance. Over the years, there are number of odd developments, including a deathbed confession from a witness who claimed he saw Roger being held at gunpoint in the woods, but Roger’s body is never found and there are no answers about what happened to him. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the perplexing case of a student who somehow managed to disappear from his school. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Delta County Sheriff’s Office at (970) 874-2000 Join us on Saturday, September 17 at 8:00pm ET for an online streaming marathon where we will be watching classic segments from “Unsolved Mysteries”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/roger-john-ellison https://findrogerellison.wordpress.com https://www.montrosepress.com/news/despite-witnesses-trail-if-missing-cedaredge-teen-still-cold/article_c6a43b7d-23ef-5a0d-b516-3400cc839e8e.html https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/30/us/a-symbol-of-the-missing-thousands-durango-s-young-unknown-traveler.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140202090905/http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2014/02/01/cedaredge-high-school-student-possibly-kidnapped-gunpoint-led-woods/7915/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/538795986/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/538796042/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/538796084/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/540023753/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/535933268/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/540031025/ “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” 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.

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0:00.0	February 10th, 1981
0:03.0	Cederage, Colorado
0:05.0	After showing up at Cederidge High School,
0:08.0	17 year old Roger Ellison places his books inside his locker,
0:12.0	but he never attends any of his classes that day and banishes without a trace.
0:15.8	One of Rogers' teachers comes under suspicion when he allegedly makes some bizarre statements to
0:21.1	Roger's mother, but no evidence links him to Roger's disappearance.
0:25.5	Over the years, there are a number of odd developments, including a deathbed confession from a
0:30.0	witness who claimed he saw Roger being held at gunpoint in the woods, but Roger's body
0:34.9	is never found and there are no answers about what happened to him. After that, the trail
0:40.5	went cold. cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:21.2	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be exploring an unsolved case involving a
1:26.1	missing high school student, the 1981 disappearance of Roger Ellison. I first became familiar with this story when I featured it in an article I published for List First.com nine years ago,
1:38.0	titled, 10 Cases of Students Vanishing from their schools.
1:41.0	And I've since received a couple of requests to cover it as I don't believe the case has been featured
1:46.1	on many podcasts. It involves a 17 year old student named Roger Ellison who showed up for school
1:52.1	one morning and was last seen placing books
1:54.5	inside his locker before he told one of his friends he would see him in class.
1:58.9	But after that, Roger just seemed to vanish into thin air and he has not been seen for over 40 years.
2:05.3	One of the key figures in this case is a man named John Pash, who was Roger's social studies
2:10.5	teacher at the time and supposedly made some strange comments to
2:14.0	Roger's mother which put him on the police's radar and a search would later be
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