The Trail Went Cold - Episode 427 - The Kuria Family Murders

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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August 1, 2007. Powder Springs, Georgia. After not being heard from for over 30 hours, 46-year old Jane Kuria and her two daughters - 19-year old Isabella and 16-year old Annabelle - are found bludgeoned to death inside their home. Jane’s eight-year old son, Jeremy, and her eleven-year old nephew, P.K. Thande, are also severely beaten and left comatose, but while they wind up surviving their injuries, they are unable to provide much information about who attacked them. Since the Kurias originally hailed from Kenya and had been seeking asylum in the United States, investigators explore a number of different scenarios, including the possibility of some family friends being responsible for the murders, but the case is never solved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a horrific and baffling crime known as the Kuria family murders. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Kuria_Family https://unsolved.com/podcasts/the-kuria-family-murders/ https://unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/108-The-Kuria-Family-Murders-Web-Final.pdf https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/archive/police-question-survivor-of-attack-that-killed-3-in-georgia-home/article_aa17ad8f-fd8d-5827-b222-886708c23c60.html https://www.wave3.com/story/6875529/police-searching-for-suspect-in-attack-that-killed-3-in-georgia-home/ https://mshale.com/2007/09/06/detectives-progress-on-murders-of-kenyan-mother-daughters/ https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/us/02attack.html https://www.11alive.com/article/news/investigations/gone-cold/gone-cold-a-family-massacred-a-case-left-cold/85-511736512 https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/powder-springs-community-rallies-around-teen "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.com/. “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 1, 2007. Powder Springs, Georgia. After not being heard from for over 30 hours,
0:08.7	46-year-old Jane Curia and her two daughters, 19-year-old Isabella and 16-year-old Annabelle,
0:14.8	are found bludgeon to death inside their home. Jane's 8-year-old son Jeremy and her 11-year-old
0:20.2	nephew, P.K. Tunday are also severely beaten, and while they wind up surviving their injuries, they are unable to provide much information about who attacked them.
0:28.6	Investigators explore a number of different scenarios, including some family friends who display suspicious behavior following the murders, but the crime is never solved.
0:38.8	After that, the trail went cold. I'm not going to be. I'm sorry. I'm not.
0:55.0	I'm going to be.
0:57.0	I'm going to be. Hello everyone, and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:21.6	I'm your host Robin Warder, and on this episode, we're going to be exploring a case which was featured on the Unsaw Mysteries podcast,
1:29.1	the 2007 murders of the Kyria family.
1:32.2	Since the Trail Went Cold has been around for over nine years now, I'm sure you've probably noticed that we've covered the vast majority of cold cases
1:39.2	which were featured on the original Unsaw Mysteries TV show, as well as the Netflix reboot, but there are still
1:45.6	plenty of cases to explore from the official Unsaw Mysteries podcast. This podcast officially launched
1:52.1	in February of 2021, and while it came to an end two years later, it released over 90 episodes,
1:58.0	and the majority of their featured cases are still unsolved and deserve
2:01.9	further review. One of the earliest episodes they produced which made a big impression on me
2:07.0	was the Kyria family murders, a case that has surprisingly not gotten a ton of media coverage,
2:12.7	considering that it involved an entire family, including multiple child victims, being brutally attacked inside their home.
2:20.0	Jane Curia was a widowed single mother of three who relocated her family from their native Kenya to the United States
2:25.7	and was attempting to seek asylum since she had been an outspoken opponent of female circumcision.
2:32.0	Well, at the time this crime took place, Jane's two daughters, 19-year-old
2:36.1	Isabella and 16-year-old Annabelle, and 8-year-old son Jeremy, were staying at their home,
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