The Trail Went Cold - Episode 308 - Ricky Jean Bryant

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

December 19, 1949. Juneau County, Wisconsin. A fire breaks out at the residence of four-year old Ricky Jean “Jeannie” Bryant, which burns her family’s farmhouse to the ground. While Jeannie’s remains cannot be found in the rubble, the authorities conclude that she died in the fire. As the years go by and Jeannie’s surviving siblings discuss what happened, they become troubled by a number of suspicious discrepancies, including the presence of an unidentified blonde woman who had stopped by the house while the fire was taking place. They begin to believe their mother and grandmother may have orchestrated Jeannie’s disappearance and that she could still be alive somewhere, so they manage to convince the authorities to open a new investigation. Did Ricky Jean Bryant actually die in the fire, or was the whole thing an elaborate set-up to fake her death? On this year’s final holiday-themed episode, “The Trail Went Child” tackles a truly unusual missing children’s case. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Juneau County Sheriff’s Office at (608) 847-5649. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/ricky-jean-bryant https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/ricky-jean-bryant-taken-or-trapped https://madison.com/news/local/siblings-hold-out-for-long-lost-sister-first-edition-mystery-of-long-lost-sister-may/article_2ab0f9e9-17ff-50c7-be36-446231e4934e.html https://madison.com/mobile/article_565e45b1-c765-5869-a130-f911017c2e04.html https://www.wiscnews.com/news/local/search-continues-for-ricky-jean-bryant/article_cb9c12bc-bd7c-530d-a558-80a143fb32e5.html https://wi-homicide.com/content/area-cold-case-mysteries-keep-investigators-searching https://www.newspapers.com/image/407566158/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/404441037/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/404442939/ “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 19th, 1949. Juno County, Wisconsin.
0:06.0	A fire breaks out at the residence of four-year-old Ricky Jean Bryant, nicknamed Jeannie, which burns her family's house to the ground.
0:14.0	While Jeannie's remains cannot be found in the rubble, the authorities conclude that she died in the fire.
0:19.0	As the years go by, Jeannie's siblings are bothered by a number of suspicious discrepancies
0:24.0	including the presence of an unidentified blonde woman who stopped by the house
0:28.0	while the fire was taking place.
0:30.0	They begin to believe that their mother and grandmother
0:32.0	orchestrated Genie's disappearance and she might still be alive somewhere
0:36.6	But even though they convinced the authorities to open a new investigation. There are no conclusive answers about what happened.
0:43.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.
1:03.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:26.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be covering this month's
1:30.4	final holiday themed mystery, the 1949 disappearance of four-year-old
1:35.0	Ricky Jean Bryant. It's always been a tradition for our podcast to spend the month of
1:39.7	December featuring mysteries which took place around Christmas,
1:43.0	and while searching for cases to cover this year,
1:45.0	I came across an interesting article which was recently written by my friend Crystal Dawn
1:50.0	at her website lost and found blogs.com.
1:53.2	And apologies in advance, but after my previous episodes about the
1:57.2	disappearances of the solder children and Mary Elizabeth Edens,
2:00.7	this will mark the third time we've covered the depressing topic of children who
2:04.4	vanished during a fire which took place right before Christmas.
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