December 4th, 1982.

Boisie, Idaho

A stranger enters the Sacred Heart Catholic Church

and takes his own life by swallowing a cyanide capsule.

He carries a suicide note signed William L. Toomey,

but this turns out to be a false name, and the man has never officially identified.

Years later, investigators... and the man has never officially identified.

Years later, investigators explore the possibility that Toomey suicide might be connected

to a series of murders involving Catholic priests and that an innocent man may have served time in prison for one of these crimes.

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

uh, and uh, and uh, and uh,

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Oh, uh, uh, uh, the, uh, uh,

uh, the game. Oh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and today I will be exploring yet another story which is a major rabbit hole, the

1982 suicide of a mysterious man who identified himself as William L. Toomey. This case was featured on Unsolved Mysteries in March of 1990,

but was conspicuously absent when season 2 was uploaded to Amazon Prime a few months ago,

and you know me, when a popular Unsaw Mystery segment is neglected like that,

I jump all over the opportunity to cover it on the trail went cold.

It's been a while since I've done an episode about an unidentified

decedent as the biggest obstacle against covering those cases is that there often isn't

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