The Trail Went Cold - Episode 352 - Rae Ann Mossor and Norman Ladner

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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February 4, 1986. Roanoke, Virginia. 21-year old Rae Ann Mossor is found dead on the street outside her estranged boyfriend’s house with a shotgun wound to the chest. The shotgun is lying on the trunk of a nearby parked car and according to her boyfriend, Rae Ann had implied she would kill herself if he did not reconcile their relationship and he said he heard the fatal gunshot shortly after she left his residence. While Rae Ann’s death is officially ruled to be a suicide, her parents discover some suspicious discrepancies to make them believe she was murdered. August 21, 1989. Pearl River County, Mississippi. 17-year old Norman Ladner leaves his family’s farm to go hunting in a wooded area on their property. When Norman fails to return, his father eventually discovers his body in the woods with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. The local authorities rule that Norman’s death was a suicide and that he likely shot himself with his own hunting rifle, but his parents dispute this and uncover some strange details which make them suspect that Norman may have been murdered after stumbling upon a drug deal. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we cover two controversial suicide cases featured on “Unsolved Mysteries” in which the victims’ loved ones believed that foul play had taken place. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/rae-ann-mossor/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Rae_Ann_Mossor https://www.newspapers.com/image/919610869/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/918403944/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/920949898/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/919402323/ https://unsolved.com/gallery/norman-ladner/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Norman_Ladner https://www.newspapers.com/image/743992118/ “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	February 4th,
0:02.0	1986.
0:03.0	Roanoke, Virginia.
0:06.0	21-year-old Ray Ann Mosser is found dead on the street outside her estranged boyfriend's house
0:11.0	with a shotgun wound to the chest. The shotgun is lying on the trunk of a nearby parked car and according to her boyfriend,
0:17.0	Ray-An had implied she would kill herself if he did not take her back before he heard the fatal gunshot.
0:23.8	While Ray-An's death is officially ruled to be a suicide, her parents discovered some suspicious
0:28.4	discrepancies to make them believe she was murdered.
0:31.8	A new investigation leads to Ray-An's cause of death being reclassified as
0:35.7	undetermined, but there are no conclusive answers about how she died. After that, the
0:41.1	trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:04.0	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 today we're going
1:26.1	to be focusing on two cases which were featured on Unsaw Mysteries, the 1986 death of Ray Ann Mosser and the 1989 death of Norman Ladner.
1:35.2	These are just two of the many cases featured on the show in which a young person died
1:40.1	under odd circumstances and even though the official ruling from the authorities
1:44.0	was that their deaths were suicides the victims families did not agree with this and
1:48.2	believe that foul play had taken place.
1:51.2	Aside from being profiled on Unsaw Mysteries, another similarity between the cases of Ray Ann
1:56.2	Mosser and Norman Ladner is that in addition to the possibility of homicide or suicide,
2:01.8	a third option is that their deaths could have been accidental when their
2:05.2	guns discharged and fired a fatal bullet into them.
2:08.9	Prior to Ray Ann's death, she had caused a scene by starting an argument at her estranged boyfriend's house,
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