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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 324 – Eric Coy & Jeremy Stoner

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

January 24, 1987. Martinez, California. Nine-year old Eric Coy leaves his home on his bicycle in order to visit his aunt’s residence. Fifteen minutes later, Eric’s body and bicycle are discovered in a nearby wooded area and he has been stabbed several times. Four weeks after Eric is killed, six-year old Jeremy Stoner goes missing […]

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0:00.0

January 24th, 1987, Martinez, California, 9-year-old Eric Coilius' home on his bicycle in order to

0:10.3

visit his aunt's residence. 15 minutes later, Eric's body and bicycle are discovered in a nearby

0:18.4

wooded area and he has been stabbed several times. Four weeks after Eric is killed, six-year-old

0:26.4

Jeremy's donor goes missing from nearby Falejo before he is also found murdered and even though

0:33.4

a suspect named Sean Noughton is charged with the crime, both of his trials and injuries. While

0:42.0

investigators explore potential connections between the two cases, they are unable to find

0:48.0

inclusive answers so the murders of Eric and Jeremy are never officially solved. After that,

0:55.7

the trial rate cools.

1:26.3

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin

1:39.5

Warner and this week we're going to be exploring two cases involving murdered boys which took

1:45.0

place within four weeks of each other in the same region of California. The 1987 murders of

1:50.9

nine-year-old Eric Coil and six-year-old Jeremy's donor. That voice you just heard narrating

1:56.7

our intro was Hope Grimsley, the latest winner of our most recent trail went cold listener voice

2:02.2

over contest so thank you very much Hope. This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been

2:07.2

holding for five and a half years now so if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so,

2:11.8

I will be providing instructions near the end of this episode. The murder of Eric Coil is the case

2:17.5

that Hope requested I cover when she originally entered this contest and even though it was featured

2:22.5

on an episode of the case file podcast several years ago, I have to confess that I wasn't all that

2:28.0

familiar with this story until Hope brought it to my attention. Eric Coil's murder is one of the

2:33.4

more perplexing cold cases I've ever seen involving a child because it took place during a very

2:39.2

narrow window of time. Within 15 minutes of leaving his house in order to ride his bicycle to his

2:45.1

aunt's residence, Eric was found stabbed to death in a nearby wooded area and even though

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