The Trail Went Cold - Episode 371 - Ginni Wood, Kelly Gaskins, and Ervin Williams

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

March 10, 2007. Chocowinity, North Carolina. The mother of 19-year old university student Ginni Wood calls her up on her cell phone, but after their brief conversation ends, Ginni is never heard from again. Ginni told her mother she had travelled to Brownsville, Texas for spring break in order to visit her 19-year old best friend, Kelly Gaskins, and Kelly’s 23-year old boyfriend, Ervin Williams. However, it turns out that Ervin is a fugitive who fled North Carolina after failing to appear in court on numerous felony charges and Kelly is also wanted for a probation violation. This leads to speculation that the couple travelled across the border into Mexico in order to evade the authorities before Ginni joined them there, but Ervin and Kelly are also not heard from again. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the perplexing story of three American citizens who seemingly went missing together in Mexico and have not been seen for the past 17 years. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office at (252) 946-0101 or the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation at (919) 662-4500. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/virginia-lynne-wood https://charleyproject.org/case/kelly-gray-gaskins https://disappearedblog.com/virginia-wood/ “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” in Nashville on May 31-June 2, 2024 and “Crimecon UK” in London on September 21-22, 2024. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD24”, by visiting Crimecon.com or Crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Denver Marriott Westminster in Colorado on July 12-14, 2024. To get a 15 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com. 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	March 10th, 2007.
0:04.2	Chacoinity, North Carolina.
0:07.2	The mother of 19 year old university student Ginny would calls her up on her cell phone. Ginny tells her mother that she has traveled to Brownsville, Texas for spring break
0:16.0	in order to visit her 19-year-old best friend, Kelly Askins,
0:20.0	and Kelly's 23-year-old boyfriend, Ervin Williams, but after their phone conversation
0:24.9	ends, Ginny has never heard from again.
0:28.0	However, it turns out that Ervin is a fugitive who fled North Carolina after failing to appear in court on numerous felony charges,
0:36.0	and Kelly is also wanted for a probation violation.
0:40.0	This leads to speculation that the couple traveled across the border into Mexico in order to obey the authorities and took Ginny with them,
0:47.0	but no trace of the three missing persons is ever found.
0:51.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, for a, uh, great, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:14.0	and uh,
1:15.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:17.0	uh,
1:18.0	uh, uh, uh, uh uh...
1:21.0	uh... Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:34.2	I'm your host Robin Warner, and today we're going to be exploring an odd case involving
1:39.2	not one, not two, but three people who simultaneously went missing. The 2000 not Anyway, today's story was featured on an episode of Disappeared, titled The Road Not Taken,
1:55.7	But even though it originally aired 12 years ago, I don't recall having watched it until recently.
2:01.8	And what's odd is that out of all the cases featured on disappeared, this might be the
2:06.8	one which has had the least amount of outside media coverage both before and after the
2:11.5	episode aired, and there did not appear to have been any new developments
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