The Trail Went Cold – Episode 304 – Karina Holmer

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

June 23, 1996. Boston, Massachusetts. The dismembered upper body of 20-year old Karina Holmer is found inside a plastic trash bag in a dumpster. She was strangled to death before being sliced directly in half and the lower portion of her body is never recovered. Karina hails from Sweden and has spent the past three months working as an au pair for a married couple and she was last seen partying at a nightclub nearly 36 hours before she was found. Even though the investigation looks at a number of potential suspects, there is no evidence to implicate anyone. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a brutal unsolved crime which has often been described as Boston’s version of the Black Dahlia murder. Special thanks to listener Anil Adyanthaya for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Boston Police Department Unsolved Homicide Unit at (617) 343-4470 or the CrimeStoppers tip line at 1-800-494-TIPS (8477). Additional Reading: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/22/metro/who-killed-karina-holmer-twenty-five-years-later-swedish-nannys-grisly-murder-remains-unsolved/ https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/03/30/from-the-archive-body-identified-as-swedish-nanny-karina-holmer/ https://www.masslive.com/boston/2021/06/karina-holmer-cold-case-boston-police-seek-new-leads-in-brutal-1996-murder-of-20-year-old-swedish-au-pair.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/441014499/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/546676252/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441015411/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441016075/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441016594/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/440995729/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441018223/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441071148/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441516425/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441527386/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441855310/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/441089022/ “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	June 23, 1996. Boston, Massachusetts. The dismembered upper body of 20-year-old
0:06.7	Karina Homer has found inside a plastic bag in a dumpster. She was strangled to
0:11.3	death before being sliced directly in half and the lower portion of her body is
0:14.8	never recovered. Karina hailed some Sweden and it spent the past three months
0:19.2	working as an opair for a married couple and she was last seen partying at a
0:23.1	nightclub nearly 36 hours before she was found. Even though the investigation
0:28.2	looks at a number of potential suspects there is no evidence to implicate anyone
0:32.0	so the crime remains unsolved. After that the trail went cold.
1:02.0	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold. I'm
1:19.0	your host Robin Warner and this week we're going to be covering one of the more
1:22.9	brutal unsolved crimes of the modern era the 1996 murder of Karina Homer. That
1:29.6	voice you just heard narrating our intro was a Neil Adian Thia the latest
1:33.8	winner of our most recent trail went cold listener voiceover contest so thank
1:37.9	you very much a Neil. This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been
1:41.8	carrying on for five years now and if you'd like to enter and have an already
1:45.4	done so I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode. Anyway the
1:50.2	murder of Karina Homer was the case that a Neil suggested I cover when he
1:54.0	originally entered this contest and since he is not the only listener who has
1:57.6	suggested it I thought now would be a good time for an episode. This case is
2:02.4	often been compared to the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short aka the
2:07.8	Black dolly murder since both crimes involved a young female victim having their
2:12.4	bodies literally sliced in half at the waist. Karina Homer hailed from a small
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