The Trail Went Cold - Episode 319 - Natasha Jennings

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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July 8, 1997. Carson City, Nevada. While visiting her father on a trip from California, 16-year old Natasha Jennings is found dead inside a bedroom at his apartment. An electric fan is lying over Natasha’s body, her hair is damp, and even though traces of cocaine and methamphetamine are inside Natasha’s nostrils, no drugs can be found in her system. There are a few theories involving foul play, including the possibility that Natasha was murdered because her father was a drug informant, but the medical examiner cannot figure out her exact cause of death. Was Natasha the victim of a homicide, a drug overdose, or perhaps some sort of freak medical condition that no one was able to detect? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will explore a number of different scenarios as we cover the truly perplexing unexplained death of Natasha Jennings. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Carson City Sheriff’s Office at (775) 887-2500. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/natasha-jennings/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Natasha_Jennings https://lasvegassun.com/news/1999/aug/28/mother-wants-grand-jury-probe-into-daughters-death/ https://www.recordcourier.com/news/2001/dec/20/protest-over-girls-death-continues/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/153184066/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/147948019/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/151652657/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/152629314/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/152632584/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/150621158/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/149468531/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/150621158/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/150621165/ “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	July 8th, 1997. Carson City, Nevada.
0:05.0	While visiting her father, 16-year-old Natasha Jennings is found dead inside a bedroom at his apartment.
0:12.0	An electric fan is lying over Natasha's body, her hair is damp,
0:16.4	and even though traces of cocaine and methamphetamine are inside Natasha's nostrils,
0:21.1	no drugs are found in her system and the medical examiner cannot determine
0:25.0	her exact cause of death.
0:27.3	There are few theories involving foul play, including the possibility that Natasha was
0:31.6	murdered because her father was a drug informant, but these
0:34.7	are never substantiated and no one can figure out how Natasha died.
0:39.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, 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. I'm your host Robin Warder, and today I'm going to be covering
1:26.1	a perplexing case in which no scenario seems to make sense, the unexplained 1997 death of
1:32.3	Natasha Jennings
1:33.7	This story was featured on one of the later episodes of Unsaw Mysteries
1:38.0	and I consider it to be one of the more underrated segments
1:41.0	because while it is not a heavily discussed case, it is definitely a major headscratcher.
1:46.0	Natasha Jennings was a 16-year-old girl who decided to spend a few weeks staying with her estranged father,
1:52.0	as she had not seen him in many years and was trying
1:55.0	to rekindle the relationship. But tragically, Natasha would wind up dead inside her father's
2:00.4	apartment under very mysterious circumstances.
2:03.4	One of the strangest aspects of this case is that there were small traces of drugs found
2:08.9	in the apartment and inside Natasha's nostrils, but there were no actual drugs found in her system.
2:15.0	This seemed to rule out the possibility of her being the victim of a drug overdose,
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