December 26th, 1983. Dallas, Texas.

Two-year-old Amber Crum is reported missing after James Britt Monroe, the live-in boyfriend of

Amber's mother, Stephanie Hughes, tells police that Amber was abducted from his pickup truck

while he was inside a grocery store. Weeks later, Britt is arrested on suspicion of murder

after Stephanie implicates him in Amber's death. But after Stephanie recants her original story,

Britt is released from custody. A convicted child murderer named David Elliot Penton is eventually

looked at as a person of interest in Amber's disappearance, but there

is no evidence to implicate him and no trace of Amber is ever found.

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uh... Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be covering a missing children's

case which took place nearly 40 years ago, the 1983 disappearance of two-year-old Amber Crumb.

That voice you just heard narrating our intro as Janna Gets,

the latest winner of our most recent Trail went cold listener voiceover contest so thank you very much

Shanna. This is a recurring monthly contest which would be carrying on for over six

years now so if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions

near the end of this episode.

Per tradition, this podcast always spends the month of December covering cases which took place

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