The Trail Went Cold - Episode 416 - Nonnie Dotson

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

November 19, 2006. Littleton, Colorado. First Lieutenant Nonnie Dotson, a 33-year old nurse with the United States Air Force, has travelled from San Antonio, Texas to Colorado with her infant daughter and is saying with her brother, Tony Dotson. Nonnie leaves Tony’s residence in order to presumably travel to a nearby shopping center, but she never returns. Even though police track Nonnie’s cell phone signal and her scent to a nearby field, no trace of her can be found. Investigators explore a number of different angles, including the possibility that Nonnie was harmed by a stalker, the estranged father of her child, and even her own brother, but she remains a missing person. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a baffling unsolved disappearance in which the victim seemingly vanished into thin air. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/nonnie-ann-dotson https://www.crimelibrary.org/criminal_mind/forensics/nonnie_dotson/1_index.html https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ng/date/2011-03-23/segment/01 https://www.denverpost.com/2006/12/06/ex-beau-of-missing-nurse-quizzed/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/case-of-missing-air-force-nurse-grows-cold/ https://www.denverpost.com/2007/11/27/missing-moms-trail-goes-cold/ https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/something-happened-to-her-family-wants-answers-10-years-after-single-moms-disappearance/73-437111811 https://kdvr.com/news/colorado-cold-cases/cold-case-have-you-seen-this-woman-missing-since-2006/ https://www.denverpost.com/2014/01/17/man-gets-96-to-life-in-break-in-sexual-assault/ https://www.westword.com/news/rapist-tony-dotson-guilty-in-murder-for-hire-bid-against-victimand-sister-is-still-missing-6283026 “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the AdvocacyCon, taking place at the Indianapolis Marriott East in Indianapolis on March 28-30, 2025. To get a 10 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “TRAIL10”, by visiting https://www.advocacycon.com/. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at Crimecon UK” in London on June 7-8, 2024. To get a 10 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “TRAIL10”, by visiting Crimecon.co.uk. “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	November 19th, 2006. Littleton, Colorado. First Lieutenant Nani Dotson, a 33-year-old nurse with the United
0:09.8	States Air Force, leaves her brother's residence in order to travel to a nearby shopping center
0:14.8	but never returns. Even though police tracked Nani's cell phone signal and her sent to a nearby
0:20.4	field, no trace of her can be found.
0:23.8	Investigators explore a number of different angles, including Nani being harmed by a stalker, the estranged father of her child, and even her own brother, but she continues to remain a missing person.
0:35.3	After that, the trail went cold.
0:38.3	The trail went cold. I'm not going to be. I'm not.
0:55.0	And so, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:18.9	I'm your host Robin Warder, and on this episode, we'll be exploring a missing person's case
1:23.8	involving a nurse and first lieutenant from the United States Air Force, the 2006 disappearance
1:29.4	of Nani Dotson. I was recently going through my massive list of case suggestions and noticed that I
1:35.5	received a request for this one from a listener named Alyssa nearly seven years ago. I hadn't heard of the
1:41.1	case before, but I decided to delve into it, and I'd say it's a fairly
1:45.1	baffling mystery involving a victim who seemingly vanished into thin air.
1:50.1	Even though a number of different theories have been pushed forward about Nani's disappearance,
1:54.5	there really doesn't seem to be much conclusive evidence to support any of them.
1:58.9	At the time she went missing, Nani was a single mother who lived in
2:02.2	Texas with her 16-month-old infant daughter, Savannah, and was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base.
2:08.3	She decided to take some leave and traveled to Littleton, Colorado, with Savannah, where they spent
2:13.4	the week staying with Nani's brother, Tony Dotson, and his own family.
2:22.5	The day before she was scheduled to return home, Nani left her daughter in the care of her brother and was supposedly planning to meet some friends in a nearby shopping center, but she never
2:27.1	showed up there and vanished without a trace. The night before she went missing, Nani had
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