The Trail Went Cold - Episode 37 - L’Enfant

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

July 1, 1974. Beirut, Lebanon. Bashir Kouchacji is kidnapped by a group of unidentified men who spend the next five days interrogating and torturing him for reasons he doesn’t understand. Nine years later, after Bashir has moved to Washington, D.C. and become a successful restaurateur, he finds himself being tormented by a non-stop series of threatening phone calls from a mysterious figure known only as “L’Enfant”. The calls continue for an entire decade and take a toll on Bashir’s mental health, but even after they come to an end, there are still no answers about why they happened. Who was “L’Enfant” and were the phone calls somehow connected to Bashir’s unexplained kidnapping ordeal in Beirut? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” might be the most bizarre story we’ve ever featured, as it covers one of the relentless harassment campaigns imaginable. Thanks to HelloFresh for supporting our podcast. Go to www.HelloFresh.com and use the code cold30 to get $30 off your first week of deliveries. Additional Reading: http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Bashir_Kouchacji http://articles.latimes.com/1992-08-19/news/vw-5724_1_phone-call https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/07/11/the-reliable-source/b457913c-d84c-4b3d-8926-15fb01be78e6/?utm_term=.cb72eb2396f0 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	We would like to send out a special thanks to hello fresh.com for supporting the trail went cold.
0:05.5	And we would like to thank you, the listeners, by giving you the chance to receive $30 off your first week of deliveries when you go to hello fresh
0:13.7	dot com and use the offer code cold 30 that's cold 30
0:19.6	enjoy the show
0:22.0	July 1st, 1974.
0:26.0	Beirut, Lebanon.
0:29.0	Bashir Kushochi is kidnapped by an unidentified group of men who spend the next five days interrogating and torturing him for reasons he doesn't understand.
0:40.0	Nine years later, after Bashir has moved to Washington, D.C. and become a successful
0:45.4	restaurateur, he finds himself being tormented by a non-stop series of threatening phone
0:50.6	calls from a mysterious figure known only as La Font. The calls continue
0:56.4	relentlessly for an entire decade and test Bashir sanity. But even after they come to an
1:02.1	end, the identity of the collar and the reasons for Bonshear's
1:06.4	abduction in Beirut remain unknown. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:24.0	uh, and uh, uh, yeah.
1:33.0	Ah, uh,
1:34.0	and uh,
1:35.0	and uh, uh, uh,
1:38.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh uh...
1:41.0	uh... Who is this? What? This time you'll be killed.
1:53.0	Who is this?
1:55.0	Curiously many of the calls appear to have been made by a 10-year-old youngster who was dubbed
2:03.0	the long phone, French for the child.
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