The Trail Went Cold - Episode 358 - Amber Crum

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

December 26, 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, informs police that Amber was abducted from his parked pick-up 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. However, when Stephanie testifies during a preliminary hearing, she recants her original story, so Britt is released from custody and a grand jury declines to indict him due to lack of evidence. In 2007, a convicted child murderer named David Elliott Penton is looked at as a person of interest in Amber’s disappearance, but there is no evidence to implicate him. Was Amber actually the victim of a stranger abduction? Or was someone close to her responsible for her disappearance? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a controversial missing children’s case which has gone without answers for 40 years. Special thanks to listener Jana Goetz for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Dallas Police Department at (214) 670-4426. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/amber-nicole-crum https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Amber_Crum https://rcccmcc.com/2019/08/11/25-txf-amber-nicole-crum/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/612293968/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/635481365/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/636825769/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/362885757/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/635327431/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/636618595/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/635327584/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/636621155/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/638092936/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/638543496/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590301319/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/589235846/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/591052589/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Elliott_Penton “True Crime Web” Youtube Channel “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 going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” in London on September 21-22, 2024. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD24”, by visiting 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	December 26th, 1983. Dallas, Texas.
0:05.0	Two-year-old Amber Crum is reported missing after James Britt Monroe, the live-in boyfriend of
0:10.0	Amber's mother, Stephanie Hughes, tells police that Amber was abducted from his pickup truck
0:14.9	while he was inside a grocery store. Weeks later, Britt is arrested on suspicion of murder
0:19.9	after Stephanie implicates him in Amber's death. But after Stephanie recants her original story,
0:25.2	Britt is released from custody. A convicted child murderer named David Elliot Penton is eventually
0:31.4	looked at as a person of interest in Amber's disappearance, but there
0:35.1	is no evidence to implicate him and no trace of Amber is ever found.
0:39.7	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, I'm not. Oh, uh,
1:04.0	and uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh,
1:07.0	uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh uh...
1:11.0	uh... Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:23.6	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be covering a missing children's
1:28.2	case which took place nearly 40 years ago, the 1983 disappearance of two-year-old Amber Crumb.
1:35.0	That voice you just heard narrating our intro as Janna Gets,
1:39.0	the latest winner of our most recent Trail went cold listener voiceover contest so thank you very much
1:44.2	Shanna. This is a recurring monthly contest which would be carrying on for over six
1:49.0	years now so if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions
1:54.4	near the end of this episode.
1:56.7	Per tradition, this podcast always spends the month of December covering cases which took place
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