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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 404 - Tony Lombardi and Danny Williams

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

August 30, 1990. Westerville, Ohio. The mother of 22-year old Tony Lombardi returns home, assuming her son is at work. Forty-five minutes later, she claims that she hears the sound of a door closing followed by footsteps and she soon discovers Tony’s body on his bed. He has been shot through the head and a gun is lying on the floor next to him, but police rule Tony’s death to be a suicide. However, Tony’s family discovers injuries on his body to make them believe he was the victim of foul play and was possibly murdered by another man who was angry that Tony was dating his girlfriend, but his death is never reclassified. June 30, 1991. Galesburg, Illinois. After not hearing from him for a day-and-a-half, the parents of 23-year old Danny Williams discover his dead body on a couch inside his house. He has been shot through the forehead and since a gun Danny owned is found in his lap, the police believe that his death was a suicide. Danny’s family uncover a number of suspicious discrepancies to make them believe he was murdered, including the possible presence of small traces of blood at the scene which do not match Danny’s blood type. A coroner’s jury officially list Danny’s cause of death as “uncertain”, but no conclusive evidence of foul play can be found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we cover two suspicious suicide cases featured on “Unsolved Mysteries” involving young men who supposedly died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds, but their families felt differently. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/tony-lombardi/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Tony_Lombardi https://unsolved.com/gallery/danny-williams/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Danny_Williams https://www.newspapers.com/image/306495856/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/299581538/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/300115062/ “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:54.8

August 30th, 1990, Westerville, Ohio.

1:00.5

The mother of 22-year-old Tony Lombardi returns home, assuming her son is at work,

1:05.5

but 45 minutes later, she claims that she hears the sound of a door closing, followed by

1:10.0

footsteps, and soon discovers Tony's body on his bed

1:13.4

He has been shot through the head and a gun is lying on the floor next to him

1:17.5

But police ruled Tony's death to be a suicide

1:21.0

However, Tony's family discovers injuries on his body to make them believe he was the victim of foul play

1:27.0

And possibly murdered by another man who was angry that Tony was dating his girlfriend and injuries on his body to make them believe he was the victim of foul play, and possibly

1:28.0

murdered by another man who was angry that Tony was dating his girlfriend, but his death

1:32.9

is never reclassified. After'm not. I'm not.

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