The Trail Went Cold - Episode 348 - Tina Marie Janose

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

October 31, 1981. Wahneta, Florida. The mother of 13-year old Tina Marie Janose wakes up to discover that she is missing from their mobile home. That same morning, Tina Marie’s body is found twelve miles away on Interstate 4 and it turns out she was abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered before the killer tossed her off a highway overpass. Over the years, James Norman Ulmer and Frank Potts, a pair of sex offenders who each wind up going to prison for other crimes, pop up on the radar as potential suspects in Tina Marie’s murder. While there is compelling case to be made for Ulmer or Potts being the perpetrator, there is not enough evidence to conclusively implicate either of them and the crime is never solved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the murder of Tina Marie Janose, a horrifying cold case which took place on Halloween 42 years ago. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at (863) 298-6200. Additional Reading: https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/03/25/more-speculation-than-evidence-keeps-potts-name-in-the-news/ https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2003/11/03/detective-believes-dead-inmate-was-girls-killer-in-81/28773081007/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/336011012/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/336020685/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/339767660/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/339766628/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/335967349/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/339972778/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/339771291/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/340516913/ “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	October 31st, 1981.
0:02.0	Juanita, Florida.
0:06.1	The mother of 13 year old Tina Marie Janos wakes up to discover that she is missing from
0:10.6	their mobile home.
0:12.4	That same evening, Tina Marie's body is found 12
0:15.0	miles away on Interstate 4 and it turns out she was abducted and murdered before the
0:19.9	killer tossed her off a highway overpass. Over the years, two offenders with a history of
0:25.5	harming young girls pop up on the radar as suspects, but there is no conclusive evidence
0:30.2	pointing to either of them, so Tina Marie's murder remains unsolved.
0:34.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:45.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
0:54.0	Yes.
0:55.0	Oh, uh,
0:56.0	and uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:17.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering an unsolved crime involving a 13 year old girl.
1:24.0	The 1981 murder of Tina Marie Janos.
1:28.0	We are now in October and per our yearly tradition,
1:31.0	I always like to spend the last few weeks of the month covering mysteries
1:34.7	with some sort of Halloween slant to them, and this year I'll be profiling a couple of cases
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