The Trail Went Cold - Episode 305 - Robert Dirscherl

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

March 13, 1977. Dunedin, Florida. The body of 54-year old Robert Dirscherl is found on the floor of his bedroom with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest. A shotgun is resting on the bed and since investigators believe that Robert used his big toe to pull the trigger and shoot himself, they rule his death to be a suicide. Sixteen years later, one of Robert’s sons receives an anonymous letter from someone who says they are dying and want to confess to Robert’s murder. Even though the Dirscherl family learns about a potential suspect who might be the writer, the authorities refuse to reclassify Robert’s death as a homicide. Did Robert Dirscherl actually take his own life or was he the victim of foul play? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore one of the more bizarre deaths to ever be classified as a suicide. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/robert-dirscherl/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Dirscherl https://www.newspapers.com/image/340353970/ “Healing Wounds: The Redemption Legacy” by Daniel Dirscherl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBD2liHClOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMvKRe9vGAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAzL2DI3P-c “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	March 13th, 1977.
0:03.8	Dunian, Florida.
0:06.3	The body of 54-year-old Robert Derschel is found on the floor of his bedroom with a fatal
0:10.8	gunshot wound at the chest.
0:13.0	A shotgun is resting on the bed,
0:15.0	and investigators believe that Robert used his big toe to pull the trigger and shoot himself,
0:19.0	so they rule his death to be a suicide.
0:22.0	Sixteen years later, one of Robert's sons receives an anonymous letter
0:26.2	from someone who says they are dying and want to confess to Robert's murder.
0:30.8	Even though the Jershles learn about a potential suspect who might be the writer, the authorities refused to reclassify Robert's death as a homicide, so the actual circumstances of how he was killed remain unknown.
0:42.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, but uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	and uh, and uh, and uh,
1:06.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:25.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be covering a strange
1:30.0	and rather overlooked case about a suspicious suicide which is once featured on Unsaw Mysteries,
1:36.0	the unexplained 1977 death of Robert Derschel.
1:40.4	So as I'm sure you probably know, the third season of the Unsaw Mysteries reboot was released on Netflix last month,
1:47.0	and one of their episodes covered the 2013 death of a man named Patrick Mullins, who supposedly killed himself with a self-inflicted shotgun
1:55.0	blast while boating in Tampa Bay, Florida.
1:58.3	But of course there were enough suspicious discrepancies to make his family believe he was the victim of foul play.
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