The Trail Went Cold - Episode 407 - Edward Banish

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

August 22, 1965. South Bend, Indiana. 49-year old Edward Banish is murdered inside his home after being stabbed seven times. Over two months earlier, Edward’s 18-year old son, Scott Banish, had gone missing after an apparent drowning accident in Lake Michigan, but eight days after his father’s murder, Scott is discovered to be alive and admits to having faked his own death. Even though Scott seems to have a solid alibi placing him over 2,500 miles away on the night of the crime, he eventually admits to killing Edward and is arrested and charged with second-degree murder. However, after Scott recants his confession, a grand jury rules that there is insufficient evidence to indict him, so the murder charges are dropped. Was Edward Banish actually stabbed to death by his son? If not, then who was actually responsible and what could their motive have been? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the bizarre story of a missing persons case which eventually evolved into an unsolved murder. Special thanks to listener Holly Dodson for narrating the opening of this episode. Additional Reading: https://www.southbendtribune.com/story/opinion/2017/10/01/colwell-st-joseph-county-murder-case-remains-a-mystery/45809981/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/516195400/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/516199513/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515531517/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515768233/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515760968/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515761266/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515763176/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515763640/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515733969/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/515384338/ “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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0:00.0	August 22, 1965, South Bend, Indiana. A 49-year-old Edward Banish is murdered inside his home after being stabbed
0:10.5	seven times. Over two months earlier, Edward's 18-year-old son, Scott Banish, had gone missing after an apparent
0:18.7	drowning accident. But eight days after his father's murder,
0:22.5	Scott is discovered to be alive and admits to having faked his own death. Even though Scott seems
0:29.4	to have a solid alibi, he eventually admits to killing Edward and is arrested and charged with the crime.
0:36.7	However, after Scott recants his confession,
0:40.1	a grand jury rules that there is insufficient evidence to indict him, so the charges are dropped.
0:45.7	And there are no conclusive answers about who actually killed Edward. After that, the trail and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:34.6	I'm your host Robin Warder, and today's case is going to be one of the most unusual mysteries we've ever covered, the 1965 murder of Edward Banish.
1:44.1	That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Holly Dodson,
1:47.5	the latest winner of our most recent Trail Went Cold listener voiceover contest, so thank you very much,
1:52.9	Holly. This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been carrying on for seven years now,
1:57.6	so if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be providing
2:01.1	instructions near the end of this episode. Anyway, what's particularly bizarre about today's story
2:06.6	is that it started off as one mystery before it unexpectedly evolved into another. At first,
2:12.8	the central victim was an 18-year-old high school student named Scott Banish, who supposedly
2:17.4	vanished after making a trip from South Bend, Indiana in order to go swimming at Warren Dune State Park in Michigan.
2:23.9	The initial theory was that Scott drowned in Lake Michigan, but the case took an unexpected turn two and a half months later when Scott's father, Edward Banish, was murdered inside his residence after being stabbed
2:35.4	seven times by an intruder. And things got really crazy a short time later when Scott was
2:41.5	discovered to be alive, as he admitted that he had faked his own death and spent the past few months
2:46.7	traveling across the country. While Scott initially maintained that he was around 2,500 miles away at the time
2:53.0	his father was killed, he eventually got charged with the crime after making a confession, but soon recanted it,
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