The Trail Went Cold - Episode 354 - Danielle LaRue

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

December 31, 2002. Vancouver, British Columbia. The Vancouver Police Department receive an anonymous letter containing a remorseful confession from someone who claims to have been responsible for the death of a sex worker. While the victim’s name is not mentioned, investigators eventually suspect that she might be 24-year old Danielle LaRue, a sex worker from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood who seemed to vanish without explanation one month before the letter arrived. Even though the police ask the letter writer to come forward, this individual is not heard from again and no trace of Danielle is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we share the story of Danielle LaRue, an Indigenous woman who lived an incredibly tragic life before she went missing. We will also explore the stories of Ashley Machiskinic and Verna Simard, two other Indigenous women from the Downtown Eastside, who both died suspicious deaths after falling from a window at the Regent Hotel. If you have information about any of the featured cases, please contact the Vancouver Police Department’s Cold Case Unit at (604) 717-2500. Additional Reading: https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/danielle-larue https://www.vpdcoldcases.ca/danielle-larue/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/496693347/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/497036908/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/497458017/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/497458058/ https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2018/12/09/danielle-larue-vancouver-police-appeal-killer-16-year-old-cold-case/ https://globalnews.ca/news/1535797/bc-crimestoppers-the-case-of-murder-victim-danielle-larue/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ashley-machiskinic-vancouver-death-1.3653676 https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/angela-sterritt-ashley-machiskinic-mmiw-1.3896560 https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/this-was-a-murder-2/ https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/verna-shabaquay https://bc.ctvnews.ca/dead-woman-fell-six-storeys-from-hotel-vpd-1.698845 “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	December 31st, 2002.
0:03.7	Vancouver, British Columbia.
0:06.6	The Vancouver Police Department received an anonymous letter containing a remorseful
0:10.4	confession from someone who claims to have been responsible for the death of a sex worker.
0:15.0	While the victim's name is not mentioned, investigators eventually suspect that she might be 24-year-old Danielle Larou, who seemed to vanish that explanation one month
0:25.0	before the letter arrived.
0:27.2	While the police asked the letter writer to come forward, they are not heard from again,
0:31.3	and no trace of Danielle is ever found. After that the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh,
0:54.0	uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:01.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Gold.
1:17.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we're going to be traveling back to our
1:21.2	podcast Home Country of Canada to explore an
1:24.2	Unsaw Missing Person's Case involving an indigenous woman, the 2002
1:28.7	disappearance of Danielle Lourieu. This case was suggested to me sometime last year by a listener named Kit, and I was already familiar with Danielle's story because I had featured it in an article I published for List First.com over seven years ago titled
1:44.0	Ten Bazaar Anonymous Tips that Shook Up Unsolved Crimes.
1:48.0	And this is a missing person's case where no one was even aware that the victim had
1:52.0	disappeared until the police received an anonymous
1:54.8	letter about her supposed death.
1:57.2	I've released multiple podcast episodes about the topic of missing and murdered indigenous
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