The Trail Went Cold - Episode 325 - Sarah Skiba, Paul Skiba, and Lorenzo Chivers

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

February 7, 1999. Westminster, Colorado. 38-year old Paul Skiba, his nine-year old daughter Sarah Skiba, and 36-year old Lorenzo Chivers spend the day performing moving jobs for a company Paul owns before they all vanish without a trace. When the company’s parking lot is searched, Paul’s moving truck is found, but there is ample physical evidence, including blood and bullet holes, to indicate that foul play took place. There are numerous theories surrounding the case, such as the disappearances being connected to a dispute between Paul and his estranged girlfriend, but none of the three victims are ever found. On this week’s episode of the “Trail Went Cold”, we explore a tragic missing persons case involving a father, a daughter and an employee who all vanished together. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Westminster Police Department at (303) 658-6430 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at (720) 913-7867. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearances_of_Paul_and_Sarah_Skiba_and_Lorenzo_Chivers https://charleyproject.org/case/paul-carroll-skiba https://charleyproject.org/case/sarah-arielle-skiba https://charleyproject.org/case/lorenzo-deshawn-chivers https://www.westword.com/news/a-cold-case-frozen-in-time-5097544 http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/06/cold.case.sarah.skiba/index.html https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/westminster-police-asking-for-information-in-20-year-old-cold-case https://www.9news.com/article/news/cold-case-20-years-later-murders-of-3-in-westminster-remains-unsolved/73-513348d8-705e-48c4-a8fa-ac1a18ce2f4a https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/arvada-man-gets-28-years-for-stabbing-mom/73-249897793 “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” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Austin, Texas on August 25-27, 2023. To get a 15 % discount on the purchase of tickets, please our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://truecrimepodcastfestival.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	February 7th, 1999.
0:03.4	Westminster, Colorado.
0:06.0	38-year-old Paul Skiba, his 9-year-old daughter, Serreskeba, and 36-year-old
0:11.0	Lorenzo Shiver, spend the day performing moving jobs for a company Paul owns
0:15.4	before they all vanish without a trace. When the company's parking lot is searched, Paul's moving
0:20.8	truck has found, but there is ample physical evidence, including blood and bullet holes, to indicate that foul play took place.
0:28.5	There are numerous theories surrounding the case, such as the disappearance is being connected to a dispute between Paul and
0:34.7	his estranged girlfriend, but no trace of the three victims has ever found.
0:39.3	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, for you. Uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, uh, 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.
1:21.8	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be
1:25.2	exploring a missing person's case involving three victims. The 1999
1:29.6	disappearance of Paul Skiba, Sarahkeba, and Lorenzo Shiver.
1:35.0	Over the years, I've received a couple of requests to cover this story, and while it has been featured
1:39.5	on a couple of other true crime podcasts such as Trace Evidence and Unresolved, it is surprisingly not all that well known.
1:47.4	Paul Skeba was the owner of a company called Tough Movers and even though a previous marriage had ended in divorce, he maintained a close relationship with his nine-year-old daughter, Sariskeva.
1:58.0	During a weekend visitation, Sar accompanied her father on a series of moving jobs which also involved another employee named Lorenzo Shiber.
2:07.0	It was established that the trio completed these jobs and returned their moving truck to the company's parking lot during the early evening hours,
2:15.0	but then something went horribly wrong and Paul, Sarah, and Lorenzo were never heard from again.
2:21.0	The evidence suggested that the victims were ambushed in the parking lot and the responsible party disposed of their bodies at another location,
2:28.0	and the authorities have always been inclined to believe that Paul was always the intended target and Sarah and Lorenzo were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
2:36.0	But unfortunately, since law enforcement made some major mistakes during the early stages of the investigation,
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