The Trail Went Cold - Episode 329 - Lola Celli

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

February 23, 1946. Grandview Heights, Ohio. 24-year old Lola Celli leaves her parents’ residence in order to walk to the bus stop, but she soon vanishes without a trace. An eyewitness later reports seeing a woman struggling with a man inside a moving vehicle before a red shoe is thrown out the window. Since Lola was wearing shoes like that when she went missing, it is suspected that she was the victim of an abduction. Ten years later, the Grandview Heights police chief announces that the case has been closed because Lola was found alive in another town, but he never produces any evidence to confirm this and it eventually comes out that he may have been mistaken. Did Lola Celli disappear voluntarily or was she the victim of foul play? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore an older missing persons case known as “The Red Shoe Mystery”. Special thanks to Miranda Merrick of “The Midnight Library” podcast (https://www.midnightlibrarypod.com/) for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Grandview Heights Police Department at (614) 488-7901. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/lola-ada-celli https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/grandview-heights/2021/02/19/grandview-heights-moment-time-missing-lola-celli/4509663001/ “Murder & Mayhem in Columbus, Ohio” by Nellie Kampmann https://www.newspapers.com/image/295841035/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/324768888/ “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 23rd, 1946, Grandview Heights, Ohio.
0:07.0	24-year-old Lola Chale leaves her parents residence in order to walk to the bus stop, but she soon vanishes without a trace.
0:17.7	An eyewitness later reports seeing a woman struggling with a man inside a moving vehicle before a red shoe is
0:26.0	thrown out the window and since Lola was wearing a red shoe like that when she went missing, it is suspected that she became the victim
0:36.7	of an abduction.
0:38.7	Ten years later, the Grandview Heights Police Chief announces that the case has been closed because Lola was found alive in another town.
0:49.0	But no evidence is ever produced to confirm this.
0:54.7	So the Red Shoe mystery is never officially solved.
1:00.1	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:14.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.
1:23.0	Oh, uh, uh,
1:25.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:28.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:46.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be covering an older missing person's case.
1:52.0	The 1946 disappearance of Lola Chelly, aka the Red Shoe Mystery.
1:58.0	That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Miranda Merrick, the host of another podcast called the midnight library, so thank you very much, Miranda.
2:07.0	Our respective shows are doing some cross-promotion this month, so if you would like to learn more about the midnight library, I will be playing a promo for them later on in this episode.
2:17.0	Anyway, the victim in today's story is Lola Chelly, an Italian immigrant who vanished without a trace 77 years ago from Grandview Heights, Ohio.
2:26.0	The reason this case is known as the Red Shoe Mystery is because Lola was wearing a pair of red swayed slip-on shoes at the time she went missing,
2:35.4	and an eyewitness report seeing a red shoe being tossed from the window of a moving vehicle
2:40.5	where a woman matching Lola's description appeared to be putting up a struggle with an unidentified man.
2:46.0	This seemed to suggest that Lola had been abducted against her will,
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