The Trail Went Cold - Episode 4 - Rhonda Hinson

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

December 22, 1981. 19-year old Rhonda Hinson attends an office Christmas party in Hickory, North Carolina. Sometime after midnight, Rhonda is driving back home when she is struck by a bullet fired from a high-powered rifle, killing her instantly and causing her car to crash into the ditch. Incredibly, the bullet manages to travel through the vehicle’s trunk, back seat, and driver’s seat, striking Rhonda in the heart and killing her instantly. The seemingly impossible fatal shot, along with a strange eyewitness sighting of an unidentified man at the scene, has led to debate about whether Rhonda was deliberately targeted or the unfortunate victim of a freak accident. Join me for a new episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, as I analyze the baffling murder of Rhonda Hinson. Additional Reading: http://unsolved.com/archives/rhonda-hinson http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/22/who-killed-rhonda-family-looks-for-answers-in-34-year-old-cold-case-murder.html http://www.morganton.com/news/rhonda-hinson-s-murder-turns/article_4c9fab6e-95be-5084-99af-44a4f7e9e7bc.html 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	December 22nd, 1981, to Hinson is driving home from an office Christmas party when she is murdered under very strange circumstances.
0:16.5	Ronda's vehicle crashes into the ditch after an unknown assailant somehow manages to fire a bullet straight into her heart.
0:24.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
0:35.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:38.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, there's, uh,
0:44.0	there's, uh,
0:45.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth episode of the trail went cold.
1:07.0	I am your host Robin Warder and today I am actually going to be covering a case which is a suggestion from a listener.
1:14.6	As I've mentioned on previous episodes, I am a frequent poster in the Unsolved Mysteries Forum
1:19.7	at the Sitcoms Online Message Board, and a few weeks ago when I posted the debut
1:25.4	episode of the trail went cold there a fellow Unsolved Mysteries fan under the
1:30.2	username and I don't know how to pronounce this username so I'm just going to
1:34.4	spell it the username is j j jm c-gr they suggested a few cases that they would like to
1:41.5	see covered on this podcast and one of them was the
1:44.7	bizarre murder of a young lady named Ron de Hinson. This story was originally
1:49.9	profiled on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries in November 1989.
1:55.0	I've also briefly written about it in my list first article,
1:58.0	Ten Unsolved Christmas Time Mysteries, which was published in December 2014.
2:05.0	And this case has remained unsolved for over 34 years now, and it's a pretty unusual one,
2:11.0	so I definitely think it deserves some analysis here.
2:15.2	But before we get started, I would like to thank everyone from the Unsolved Mysteries
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