The Trail Went Cold – Episode 34 – Dickie Hovey and Eric Jones

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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December 17, 1967. The skeletal remains of an unidentified male are found in Balsam Lake Provincial Park near Coboconk, Ontario, Canada. Five months later, the decomposing body of another unidentified male is discovered in a field near the village of Schomberg, and the similarities between the two scenes suggest that both victims were murdered by […]

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0:00.0	December 17th, 1967. The skeletal remains of an unidentified male are found in
0:07.6	Balsam Lake Provincial Park near Kobakon, Ontario, Canada. Five months later, the decomposing
0:14.8	body of another unidentified male is discovered in a field near the village of Shomberg,
0:19.7	and the similarities between the two scenes suggest that both victims were murdered by the same
0:24.7	killer. The victims go unidentified for 40 years until clay busts of their heads are constructed
0:31.5	and shown on television. They are eventually identified as Richard Dickie Havi and Eric Jones,
0:38.2	but the identity of their killer remains unknown. After that, the trail went cold.
0:54.7	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold.
1:25.2	I'm your host Robin Warder, and since we just passed Victoria Day here in Canada,
1:30.4	I thought it only appropriate to venture back to my home country and cover a Canadian mystery
1:35.6	this week. The murders of Richard Dickie Havi and Eric Jones. As you may or may not know,
1:42.8	the trail went cold as a Canadian-produced podcast, but thus far, we have only covered two Canadian
1:49.3	mysteries, the Blind River Restop murders and the death of Cindy James. Those were both released
1:55.6	quite some time ago, so it's about time we returned to the Great White North. Today's story is
2:01.2	quite an interesting one, because it involves two murdered John Does who went unidentified for 40
2:07.1	years until their cases were resurrected and clay busts of the victims' heads were constructed.
2:13.2	The busts were shown on television, and miraculously, both victims were recognized by their surviving
2:18.9	family members. However, even though they both got their identities back, this story is still a
2:24.4	mystery since we don't actually know who murdered them, though the evidence does suggest that
2:28.8	they were both victims of the same serial killer. One of the reasons I decided to select this
2:34.2	story is because one of the victims was found near the village of Shamburg, Ontario, which is only
2:39.6	about half hour away from my original hometown of Orangeville. I have probably driven through
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