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

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K 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 death, so that his wife, Geneva, could collect on some substantial life insurance policies. Ten years later, Geneva Roberts is killed in a mysterious house fire… alongside a man who is identified as her supposedly deceased husband, Clarence! But what caused the couple’s deaths and whose body was burned in 1970? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles the incredibly bizarre tale of a man who supposedly died in two different fires ten years apart. Additional Reading: http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Clarence_and_Geneva_Roberts “Notorious 92: Indiana’s Most Notorious Murders in All 92 Counties” by Andrew E. Stoner https://www.leagle.com/decision/19801787410ne2d137711761 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	November 18th, 1970.
0:05.0	Nashville, Indiana.
0:07.0	A barn located on the property of 52-year-old Clarence Roberts burns to the ground, and his charred body is found in the rubble.
0:15.0	However, since Clarence was experiencing financial problems at the time,
0:20.0	there is skepticism that the body actually belongs to him and insurance companies
0:24.9	refused to pay out on a policy for Clarence's wife Geneva.
0:29.3	Ten years later Geneva Roberts is killed in a mysterious house fire, alongside a man who was positively identified as their supposedly deceased husband Clarence.
0:40.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and all the uh, and uh, and uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:25.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I will be covering one of the oddest cases ever featured on unsolved mysteries,
1:32.0	The Death of Clarence and Geneva Roberts.
1:36.2	Or should I say the deaths of Clarence Roberts, 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 then
1:48.5	seemingly rose from the dead to be killed in another fire ten years later, only this time it also claimed the life of his wife
1:55.6	Geneva.
1:56.6	It's one of those stories that you couldn't possibly dream up if you tried, and if a work of
2:01.7	fiction contain a plot with all the twists and turns
2:04.2	featured here you'd probably groan and roll your eyes over how contrived and
2:08.7	unbelievable it was but all of this stuff really happened.
2:13.0	There are some aspects of this mystery where it seems pretty obvious what happened,
2:17.0	but other aspects will leave you scratching your head.
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