The Trail Went Cold - Episode 378 - Leroy Drieth and Shelly Malone

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

May 30, 1968. Mead, Colorado. After leaving a party being held at his fiancee’s residence, 18-year old Leroy Drieth is killed when his car crashes into a tree. Prior to the crash, Leon had reportedly made a statement that he was going to kill himself, so his death is ruled to be a suicide. Decades later, Leroy’s sister learns some incriminating information about an altercation which supposedly took place at the party between Leroy and some of Patty’s family members. After Leroy’s body is exhumed, an autopsy uncovers a pair of knife wounds on his neck and while his cause of death is officially changed from “suicide” to “undetermined”, there are still no conclusive answers about how Leroy was killed. October 18, 1992. Fauquier County, Virginia. While horseback riding with a friend, 37-year old Shelly Malone is supposedly thrown to the ground before her horse stomps on her chest with such force that it ruptures her heart. While Shelly’s death is ruled to be an accident, her family notices suspicious behaviour from her friends, as well as alleged discrepancies in their story about how she was killed. After discovering small traces of blood inside her truck, Shelly’s family becomes convinced that she was murdered and that the so-called horseback riding accident was staged, but are unable to convince the authorities to reclassify her death. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a pair of suspicious unexplained deaths in which the victim’s loved ones were certain that foul play took place. If you have any information about the death of Leroy Drieth, please contact the Weld County Sheriff’s Office at (970) 356-4015. If you have any information about the death of Shelly Malone, please contact the Fauquier County Sheriff’s Office at (540) 347-3300. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/leroy-drieth/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Leroy_Drieth https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/blame/foul-play-investigated-in-deaths-years-later/73-409298773 https://unsolved.com/gallery/shelly-malone/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Shelly_Malone Washingtonian Article (July 1993) https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/05/02/the-horse-whisperers/789e4be9-ff80-4487-9524-60c4630574a2/ “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 30th, 1968.
0:03.9	Mead, Colorado.
0:06.1	After leaving a party being held at his fiance's residence, 18-year-old Leroy Dreyth is killed
0:11.5	when his car crashes into a tree and his death is ruled to be a suicide.
0:16.4	Decades later, Leroy's sister hears some incriminating stories about an altercation which supposedly
0:22.1	took place at the party between Leroy and some of Patty's family members.
0:26.0	After Leroy's body is exhumed, an autopsy uncovers a pair of knife wounds on his neck,
0:32.0	and while his cause of death is officially changed
0:34.4	to undetermined, there's still no conclusive answers about how Leroy was killed.
0:39.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh,
0:54.0	uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:22.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be exploring
1:25.6	two separate cases involving suspicious deaths which were featured on unsolved
1:29.5	mysteries, the 1968 death of Leroy Dreyth and the 1992 death of Shelly Malone.
1:36.7	Of course since these deaths took place 25 years apart in different states, there is no connection
1:41.8	between them, but I decided to profile them together on the same episode
1:45.8	since there are numerous similarities. Both of these cases involve the victim dying in what was
1:51.1	initially ruled to be a tragic accident, but their loved
1:54.3	ones felt there were enough suspicious discrepancies to make them believe that foul play
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