December 17th, 1967.

The skeletal remains of an unidentified male are found in Balsam Lake Provincial Park near Kobak, Ontario, Canada. Five months later, the decomposing body of another unidentified male

is discovered in a field near the village of Schaumburg, and the similarities between the two scenes

suggest that both victims were murdered by the same killer.

The victims go unidentified for 40 years until clay busts of their heads are constructed and shown

on television. They are eventually identified

as Richard Dickie Hovey and Eric Jones, but the identity of their killer remains unknown.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh,

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and 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 since we just passed Victoria Day here in Canada,

I thought it only appropriate to venture back to my home country and cover a Canadian mystery this week.

The murders of Richard Dickie Hovey and Eric Jones.

As you may or may not know, the Trail went cold as a Canadian produced podcast, but thus far, we have only covered two Canadian mysteries, the Blind River Restop, and the death of Cindy James.

And those were both released quite some time ago,

so it's about time we return to the Great White North.

Today's story is quite an interesting one because it involves two murdered John Doe's who went unidentified for 40 years

until their cases were resurrected and clay busts of the victim's heads were constructed.

The bust were shown on television, and miraculously,

both victims were recognized by their surviving family members.

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