The Trail Went Cold - Episode 307 - David Spencer & Patrick Warren

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

December 26, 1996. Chelmsley Wood, England. 13-year old David Spencer and 11-year old Patrick Warren tell their families that they are planning to spend the night with Patrick’s brother, but they never arrive and are subsequently reported missing. It turns out that the last confirmed sighting of the boys took place at a petrol station and Patrick’s abandoned bicycle is found there next to some rubbish bins. Years later, Brian Field, a sex offender serving time in prison for the murder of another teenage boy, is looked at as a potential suspect in this case, but there is no conclusive evidence to implicate him and the two boys are never found. On this week’s holiday-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a unsolved mystery from the United Kingdom known as the “Milk Carton Kids” case, as this was the first British missing children’s case in which the victim’s faces were featured on milk cartons. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Patrick_Warren_and_David_Spencer https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38417633 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-37999316 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-57641052 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-57652028 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3139027.stm https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/11/ukcrime.rosiecowan https://www.newspapers.com/image/849999509/ https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/dig-sites-looked-during-search-24352298 https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/special-report-chelmsley-wood-families-167564 https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/please-interview-brian-field-before-20882104 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1657754.stm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Roy_Tutill “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 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 26th, 1996.
0:03.6	Chumsley Wood, England.
0:06.0	Thirteen-year-old David Spencer and 11-year-old Patrick Warren
0:10.0	claimed that they are planning to spend the night at Patrick's brother's house,
0:13.2	but they never arrive, and are subsequently reported missing.
0:17.0	The last confirmed sighting of them takes place at a petrol station,
0:20.3	and Patrick's abandoned bicycle is found at the site next to some rubbish bins.
0:25.0	Years later, Brian Field, a sex offender serving time in prison for the murder of another teenage boy,
0:31.0	is looked at it as a potential suspect in this case, but there is no conclusive
0:35.2	evidence to implicate him and the two boys are never found.
0:39.4	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh,
0:54.0	uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, uh,
0:56.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, 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.
1:23.2	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be traveling to the United Kingdom
1:28.2	to profile one of the more famous unsolved missing children's cases.
1:32.2	The 1996
1:33.1	disappearance is of David Spencer and Patrick Warren.
1:36.5	It's tradition for our podcast to spend the month of December
1:39.3	covering holiday theme mysteries, and this one just happened to take place on Boxing Day, a holiday which is celebrated after Christmas.
1:47.0	Even though Boxing Day is not officially recognized as a holiday in the United States, it is celebrated in many other countries, including Canada, and it
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