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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 36 – Clarence and Geneva Roberts

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

November 18, 1970. Nashville, Indiana. A barn located on the property of 52-year old Clarence Roberts burns to the ground and a charred body is found in the rubble. Clarence’s family assume the body is him, but since he was experiencing serious financial problems at the time, the authorities suspect that Clarence faked his own […]

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18th, 1970.

0:04.4

Nashville, Indiana.

0:07.4

A barn located on the property of 52-year-old Clarence Roberts burns to the ground, and

0:12.9

his charred body is found in the rubble.

0:15.3

However, since Clarence was experiencing financial problems at the time, there is skepticism

0:21.4

that the body actually belongs to him, and insurance companies refuse to pay out on a policy

0:26.5

for Clarence's wife, Geneva.

0:29.3

10 years later, Geneva Roberts is killed in a mysterious house fire, alongside a man

0:35.0

who is positively identified as their supposedly deceased husband Clarence.

0:40.5

After that, the trail went cold.

0:59.3

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold.

1:25.5

I'm your host Robin Warder, and today I will be covering one of the oddest cases ever

1:30.4

featured on unsolved mysteries, the death of Clarence and Geneva Roberts.

1:36.2

Or should I say the DESS of Clarence Roberts?

1:40.0

Because this guy apparently died twice.

1:43.0

This is a really bizarre tale of a man who was supposedly killed in a fire in 1970, and

1:48.5

then seemingly rose from the dead to be killed in another fire 10 years later.

1:53.2

To this time, it also claimed the life of his wife, Geneva.

1:57.1

It's one of those stories that you couldn't possibly dream up if you tried, and if a

2:01.4

work of fiction contained a plot with all the twists and turns featured here, you'd probably

2:05.9

grown and roll your eyes over how contrived and unbelievable it was.

2:10.6

But all of this stuff really happened.

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