The Trail Went Cold - Episode 439 - Sandy Drummond

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

June 24, 1991. Boarhills, Scotland. The body of 33-year old Sandy Drummond is found on a farm track across the road from his cottage and it is determined that he was choked to death with what is described as a “ju-jitsu stranglehold”. In the days prior to his death, Sandy had suddenly quit his job without notice and withdrew nearly all of his money from his accounts, leading to speculation that someone may have been bullying or blackmailing him. Investigators explore a number of different leads, including eyewitness sightings of an orange car parked outside Sandy’s cottage before he was killed, but are unable to determine a clear-cut motive for the crime. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel to Scotland to explore one of their most perplexing unsolved murders. Additional Reading: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scotlands-unsolved-murders-mystery-devoted-22208850 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12741252.claim-of-cover-up-over-murder-report/ https://archive.news.stv.tv/archive/1358421-victim-of-unsolved-murder-killed-by-ju-jitsu-stranglehold.html https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/2161078/unsolved-murder-sandy-drummonds-tragic-death-still-remains-one-of-fifes-most-notorious-cold-cases/ https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/celebs-tv/scottish-cold-case-murders-investigated-25187417 https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/inside-unsolved-murder-sandy-drummond-28272182 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/MIRROR+CRIMEBUSTERS%3A+Distraught+mum+died+in+torment+while+son%27s...-a072972920 "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 use 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	June 24th, 1991. Four Hills, Scotland. The body of 33-year-old Sandy Drummond is found on a farm
0:09.2	track across the road from his cottage, and it is determined that he was choked to death with the
0:13.7	Jiu-Jitsu stranglehold. In the days prior to his death, Sandy had suddenly quit his job without notice
0:19.6	and withdrew nearly all of his money
0:21.5	from his accounts, leading to speculation that someone may have been bullying or blackmailing him.
0:27.4	Investigators explore a number of different leads, including sightings of an orange car
0:31.9	parked outside Sandy's cottage before he was killed, but the murder remains unsolved. After that, the trail went cold.
0:40.3	The trail went cold. I'm not going to be. I'm not. I'm not.
0:55.0	I'm going to
0:57.0	and
0:58.0	I'm
0:59.0	and
1:00.0	and
1:01.0	I'm
1:02.0	and
1:03.0	I'm
1:04.0	and
1:05.0	I'm
1:06.0	and
1:07.0	I'm Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:20.1	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be traveling back across the Atlantic to Scotland to explore a very bizarre cold case, the 1991 murder
1:29.7	of Sandy Drummond. Over the years, I've received a couple of requests to cover this one,
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