The Trail Went Cold - Episode 303 - Bob Harrod

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

July 27, 2009. Placentia, California. 81-year old Bob Harrod is discovered to be missing from his home and he has left his car and his eyeglasses behind. One month earlier, Bob had gotten married to Fontelle Heeter, a former spouse whom he had not seen in six decades, and she was scheduled to move in with him two days after he disappeared. Since Bob has a substantial net worth, the division of his estate causes a lot of friction between Fontelle and Bob’s daughters. There is speculation that Bob’s financial situation played a role in his disappearance, but he is never found and there is no physical evidence to indicate what happened to him. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the tragic case of Bob Harrod, whose life suddenly transitioned from a heartwarming love story to a baffling unsolved mystery. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Placentia Police Department at (714) 993-8164. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/robert-merle-harrod https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-feb-02-la-me-disappeared3-2010feb03-story.html https://abc7ny.com/archive/6939639/ https://people.com/crime/elderly-man-disappeared-after-marrying-high-school-sweetheart-went-missing/ https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/07/30/after-4-year-search-missing-placentia-mans-wife-suspects-foul-play/ https://www.orangecoast.com/features/vanished-orange-countys-infamous-cold-cases-bob-harrod/ https://ktla.com/news/local-news/50k-reward-offered-in-2009-killing-of-placentia-man-who-vanished-after-marrying-high-school-sweetheart/ https://www.ocregister.com/two-persons-of-interest-in-2009-disappearance-of-placentia-millionaire-arrested-later-released https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/orange-county/news/2019/06/04/two-persons-of-interest-in-2009-disappearance-of-millionaire-released https://disappearedblog.com/robert-harrod/ “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	July 27th, 2009, Placentia, California.
0:06.0	Any one-year-old Bob Herod is discovered to be missing from his home,
0:09.5	and he has left his car and his eyeglasses behind. One month earlier, Bob had gotten married to Fontel Heeter, a former
0:16.5	spouse whom he had not seen in six decades, and she was scheduled to move in with him two days after he disappeared. Since Bob has a substantial network, the situation
0:26.0	causes a lot of friction between Fontel and Bob's daughters about the division of his assets,
0:31.4	but even though investigators suspect that Bob may have been the victim of foul play,
0:35.2	no trace of him is ever found. After that, the trail went cold. And the I'm going to Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh, okay. Oh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:20.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be exploring an odd missing
1:23.8	person's case involving an elderly man the 2009 disappearance of Bob Herod.
1:29.3	Ever since the inception of this podcast I've received a few requests to cover this case, as was once
1:34.8	featured on an episode of the popular True Crime TV series disappeared.
1:39.8	The title of The Disappeared episode was Long Lost Love, because Bob Herra was an 81-year-old
1:45.0	widower who reconnected with a long-lost sweetheart named Pontel-Heeder, whom he had not seen for several decades,
1:51.8	and he immediately decided to get married. The whole
1:54.7	situation initially seemed like a very sweet heartwarming love story but things
1:59.0	would take a much darker turn when Bob inexplicably vanished without a trace.
2:04.0	Now in many missing persons cases involving elderly individuals,
2:08.0	one of the most logical explanations is that the victim became disoriented
2:12.0	or at some sort of medical issue which caused them to wander off.
2:15.4	But that doesn't seem to be the case here as the authorities are inclined to believe that Bob
2:19.7	was the victim of foul play.
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