The Trail Went Cold - Episode 311 - Bernd Goericke & Andrea Scherpf

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

October 6, 1983. British Columbia, Canada. 27-year old Bernd Goericke and his 22-year old fiancée, Andrea Scherpf, are found shot to death next to a remote road. The couple hailed from West Germany and had been hitchhiking through Canada and an unidentified man driving a pick-up truck is seen using Andrea’s travellers’ cheques in the days following her death. Nearly six years later, a suspect named Andy Rose is charged with the crime based on testimony from a former friend who claimed she heard him confess to the murders. After two trials and two overturned convictions, the charges against Andy are dropped when DNA testing on a key piece of evidence excludes him as the perpetrator, but no one else is ever charged with killing Bernd and Andrea. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel back to our home country of Canada to explore an unsolved double murder which led to a wrongful conviction. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Chetwynd branch of the RCMP at (250) 788-9221 or the Canadian Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_murder_of_Andrea_Scherpf_and_Bernd_Göricke https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2648100646 https://archive.today/20120723055359/http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/someone_got_away_with_murder/timeline.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/newfoundlander-s-ordeal-with-rcmp-sting-subject-of-cbc-documentary-1.834222 https://vancouversun.com/news/metro/police-seek-new-leads-in-1983-murder-of-two-german-tourists-near-chetwynd “The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook” by Gisli H. Gudjonsson https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/files/mrbig.pdf https://ucfiles.com/filestatus.php?number=104200082 https://www.newspapers.com/image/501465197/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/495935807/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/496051750/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/495047641/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/494831236/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/496376227/ “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 going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Tower Bridge, Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 10-11, 2023, as well as “Crimecon” at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida on September 22-24, 2023. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD23”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk or https://www.crimecon.com. 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	October 6th, 1983. British Columbia, Canada.
0:05.0	27 year old burned Garrica and his 22 year old fiance Andrea Schurf
0:12.0	are found shot to death next to a remote road.
0:14.9	The couple hailed from West Germany and had been hitchhiking through Canada, and an unidentified
0:19.9	man driving a pickup truck is seen using Andrea's traveler's checks in the days following her death.
0:25.3	Six years later, a suspect named Andy Rose is charged with a crime based on testimony from a former friend
0:32.1	who claims she heard him confess to the murders.
0:35.0	After two trials and two overturned convictions, the charges against Andy are dropped
0:40.1	when DNA testy excludes him as the perpetrator, but no one else is ever charged with
0:45.0	killing Burnt and Andrea. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
0:55.0	uh, and uh, and uh,
0:57.0	and uh,
0:58.0	all, uh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh, uh, So you're are. Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:30.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and since we released our special update episode last week
1:35.3	this will officially be our first episode of 2023 that covers an unsolved
1:40.7	cold case the 1983 murders of Burnt Garrica and Andrea Shurf.
1:46.6	We're going to start off the year by traveling back to our podcast Home Country of Canada, and
1:51.2	while we've already covered a number of cold cases from here, this will be the first time we've done a Canadian wrongful conviction story.
1:58.0	Our two victims were a German couple named Bernd Garrica and Andrea Schirp who have been taking a lengthy two-month trip through Western Canada.
2:07.0	They relied on hitchhiking as their primary mode of transportation, but unfortunately, while they were in British Columbia, it seemed
2:15.0	like they hitched a ride with the wrong person who fatally shot the couple and robbed them
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