The Trail Went Cold - Episode 374 - Malakia Logan

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

May 15, 1988. Greenwood, South Carolina. After spending the evening at a basketball court, eight-year old Malakia “Kia” Logan heads back towards her apartment on her bicycle. Even though she only has to travel 300 yards, Kia never arrives and her abandoned bicycle is found. Two years later, a skull is discovered in a wooded area about 35 miles away and DNA testing eventually identifies it as belonging to Kia. In 2002, a suspect named Charles Wade Hampton is charged with Kia’s murder after he confesses to the crime, but since he recants his confession and there is no other corroborating evidence against him, the charges against him are dropped. Did Hampton actually commit this crime or was someone else responsible? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a frustrating missing children’s case which has remained unsolved for over 35 years. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office at (864) 942-8600 or the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division at (803) 737-9000. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Malakia_Logan https://www.wistv.com/story/1002539/indictment-in-14-year-old-disappearance-of-greenwood-girl/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70566881/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70566931/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70566953/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/190491455/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/69766543/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/625941407/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70372837/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70371938/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/194881544/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70707810/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/70707818/ https://www.wistv.com/story/6707932/suspect-in-murder-of-greenwood-county-eight-year-old-may-soon-walk-free/ “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	May 15th, 1988.
0:04.0	Greenwood, South Carolina.
0:06.8	After spending the evening at a basketball court,
0:09.5	8-year-old Malachia Logan heads back towards her apartment but never arrives.
0:14.0	Two years later, a skull is found in a wooded area about 35 miles away
0:19.0	and DNA testing eventually identifies it as belonging to Kia. In 2002, a suspect named Charles
0:26.5	Wade Hampton is charged with Kia's murder after he allegedly confesses to the crime, but
0:31.8	since there is no other corroborating evidence against
0:34.1	them, the charges are eventually dropped and the case continues to remain unsolved.
0:39.9	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:07.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold. I'm your host Robin Warner and today we're going to be
1:26.0	exploring an odd cold case involving the disappearance and death of a child. The 1988
1:31.8	murder of 8 year old Malachia Logan. The narrow window of time in which she was making a 300 yard trip from a basketball court at a park to her apartment complex.
1:46.5	Her skull would later be found in a wooded area 35 miles away and eventually identified via DNA testing, but while the rest of Kia's remains were
1:55.5	never found, it seemed apparent that she was the victim of an abduction and a homicide.
2:01.1	It appeared that this case was going to have a resolution in 2002 when a convicted sex offender named Charles Wade Hampton was charged with Kia's murder.
2:10.0	While he supposedly confessed to the crime, he would soon recant it, and after four and a half years, the state ultimately decided that the evidence wasn't strong enough to take Hampton to trial and drop the charges against him.
2:23.2	Now what's particularly frustrating about this case is that Hampton has made confessions
2:27.6	to a whole bunch of different crimes, including the abductions and sexual assaults of a number of young girls
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