The Trail Went Cold - Episode 306 - Steven Koecher

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

December 13, 2009. Henderson, Nevada. A security camera captures 30-year old Steven Koecher arriving in a residential neighbourhood, where he parks his car and is seen walking down the sidewalk before he vanishes without a trace. Earlier that day, Steven had made a 135-mile trip to Henderson from his residence in St. George, Utah, but never told anyone why, and in the days prior to his disappearance, Steven also made multiple unexplained road trips through Utah and Nevada. Since Steven was struggling financially, it is theorized that he might have travelled to Henderson in order to seek employment or make a delivery to earn some money, but there is no conclusive evidence of what happened to him. Did Steven Koecher disappear voluntarily or end his own life somewhere or did he become the victim of foul play? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore of the most perplexing missing persons case of the modern era. If you have any information about this case, please contact the St. George Police Department at (435) 627-4319, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department at (702) 229-2907 or the Henderson Police Department at (702) 267-2323. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Steven_Koecher http://charleyproject.org/case/steven-thell-koecher https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/finding-steven-koecher-man-vanishes-from-las-vegas-valley-neighborhood-phone-pings-for-days-after-presumed-death/ https://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/news/ci_14152619 https://fox13now.com/2015/05/15/new-theory-in-case-of-man-missing-since-2009-sparks-renewed-search-effort/ https://sites.google.com/site/parallelcooler/home/koecher-html/timeline2009 https://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/home2/53090169-183/steven-koecher-henderson-missing.html.csp https://www.deseret.com/2010/1/6/20362964/about-utah-powell-isn-t-only-missing-utahn https://www.deseret.com/2010/2/13/20096171/family-of-missing-st-george-man-steven-koecher-waits-and-hopes https://news3lv.com/news/local/finding-steven-nine-years-after-his-disappearance-family-still-hopes-him http://img.ksl.com/slc/2507/250737/25073705.pdf Arron Stoner Youtube Channel EyesOn Justice: A True Crime Podcast Join us on Saturday, December 10 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. “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	December 13th, 2009.
0:04.0	Henderson, Nevada.
0:06.3	A security camera captures 30-year-old Stephen Coacher arriving in a residential neighborhood
0:11.4	where he parks his car and is seen walking down the sidewalk before he vanishes without a trace.
0:16.0	Earlier that day, Stephen had made a 135 mile trip to Henderson from his hometown of St. George Utah but never told anyone why.
0:25.6	Since Stephen was struggling financially, it is theorized that he might have traveled to the area
0:30.1	in order to seek employment to earn some money, but there is no conclusive evidence of what happened to him and Stephen has never found.
0:37.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Ah, uh, 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 Water and this week we're going to be exploring one of the more
1:24.8	baffling missing persons cases of the modern era the 2009 disappearance of Stephen
1:30.2	Coacher. I've received numerous requests to cover this case and since our podcast usually spends the month of December covering holiday theme mysteries, I thought now would be a good time to do an episode.
1:41.0	At the time Stephen Coacher went missing, he was preparing to spend the holidays with his family,
1:46.4	and some Christmas gifts he had recently purchased were left behind in his abandoned car.
1:51.5	Stephen was residing in St George George, Utah and decided to make an unexplained
1:55.6	trip to Henderson, Nevada, where he parked his car in an affluent retirement community
2:00.4	and was captured walking away by a security camera before he inexplicably seemed to vanish into thin air.
2:06.0	What makes this story even stranger is that in the days prior to his disappearance,
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