August 24th

1991

Witness England

After receiving a phone call from an unknown person

42-year-old Vera Anderson asks a neighbor to watch over her son while she steps out, but even though Vera says

she will only be gone 10 minutes, she never returns.

Hours later, Vera's body is discovered inside her parked car over four miles away and she has been strangled and had her throat slashed.

Since witnesses recall seeing Vera at a pub with a man that night,

investigators look into the possibility that he might be her killer, but this man

is never identified and the motive for Vera's murder remains unknown.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,

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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.

I'm your host Robin Warder and for the first time in several months

we're going to be traveling back to the United Kingdom to explore a very bizarre crime.

The 1991 Murder of Vera Anderson.

Out of all the unsolved cold cases I cover on this podcast,

the ones which truly terrify me are those in which a seemingly ordinary victim living a seemingly

ordinary life wind up being murdered in a crime which almost seems to resemble a

professional hit. This case was originally suggested to me just over two years ago by a listener named Julia

and even though I had never heard of it before, it has recently got quite a bit of coverage in the British

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