The Trail Went Cold - Episode 316 - John & Shelly Markley

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

December 15, 1995. Bristolville, Ohio. The children of 36-year old John Markley and his 32-year old wife, Shelly Markley, return home from school and discover that their parents are gone, though there is evidence to suggest that an intruder was in the house. The couple’s pick-up truck is also missing and it is soon found abandoned in a nearby town. It turns out that on the same morning they disappeared, John and Shelly were seen cashing a cheque at a bank’s drive-thru window and even though the teller recalled seeing another man inside the truck with them, he is never identified. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we cover the perplexing the unsolved disappearance of a married couple, who may have been abducted and murdered by an outside party. In addition, we will also discuss the unsolved 1974 disappearance of 21-year old Joanne Coughlin, who also went missing in northeastern Ohio and had someone attempt to withdraw money from her bank account at a drive-thru teller window after she disappeared. If you have information on the disappearances of John and Shelly Markley, please contact the Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office at (330) 675-2508. If you have information about the disappearance of Joanne Coughlin, please contact the Youngstown Police Department at (330) 742-8900 Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/john-j-markley-jr http://charleyproject.org/case/shelly-renee-markley https://www.tribtoday.com/news/local-news/2015/12/mystery-remains-two-decades-later/ https://www.morningjournal.com/2000/12/19/5-kids-alone-reflect-on-life-five-years-after-parents-just-vanished/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/652307077/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/292554773/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/323004669/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/330036210/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/322821377/ https://www.wfmj.com/story/30759163/new-leads-in-20-year-old-trumbull-county-unsolved-mystery https://charleyproject.org/case/joanne-elaine-coughlin https://www.wkbn.com/news/cold-case/search-for-youngstown-woman-missing-since-74-continues/ https://www.wkbn.com/news/cold-case/youngstown-police-seek-info-on-man-they-just-found-out-has-been-missing-since-1969/ “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	December 15th, 1995.
0:03.2	Bristolville, Ohio.
0:06.2	The children of 36-year-old John Markley and his 32-year-old wife, Shelley Markley,
0:11.1	return home from school and discover that their parents are not there.
0:15.3	The couple's pickup truck is also missing, and it is soon found abandoned in a nearby town.
0:20.7	It turns out that on the morning they disappeared, John and Shelly were seen cashing a check at a bank's drive-thru window,
0:26.5	and even though the teller recalls seeing another man inside the truck with them,
0:30.5	he has never identified, and no trace of the Markleys has ever found.
0:35.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, and uh, and uh,
0:45.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh, yeah. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:17.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be exploring a very strange
1:21.6	missing person's case involving a married couple,
1:24.4	the 1995 disappearance of John and Shelley Markley.
1:28.4	On last week's episode, I cover two separate cases where one half of a couple was murdered and the other half went missing,
1:35.0	so this week I thought I would now focus on a mystery where a couple went missing together.
1:40.0	I first learned about this case when I came across a post about it on the Unresolved Mystery's
1:44.3	Sub-bred it two months ago, and it's definitely a weird one.
1:48.2	It involves a couple named John and Shelly Markley, who lived in a rural home with their five children, but when the kids
1:54.1	return home from school one day they were surprised to discover that their
1:57.4	parents had vanished. The couple's pickup truck was also missing, but the
2:02.0	condition of the house seemed to indicate that someone
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