October 27th, 2007.

Grand Forks, North Dakota.

38 year old Joel Loveline and his fiance attend a Halloween costume party at a local bar.

When Joel takes a moment to step outside, he is beaten to death in the parking lot.

The investigation leads to a suspect. to death in the parking lot.

The investigation leads to a suspect named Travis Stay,

who was so intoxicated that night

he cannot remember what happened.

Travis goes on trial for Joel's murder,

but when his defense diverts suspicion

towards a group of costumed partiers,

he is acquitted of the crime.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, and, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, yeah. Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail

went cold. I'm your host Robin Warder and no that was not my voice you heard

during the intro. That was Scott Owings. The winner of our latest contest where listeners can earn a chance

to narrate the opening of one of our episodes and he did a tremendous job. So thank you

very much, Scott.

I have made this a recurring monthly contest, and I will provide more details about it at the

end of this episode.

Anyways, you may have heard, I'm going to be spending the month of October covering

unsolved cases which have a Halloween slant to them. Today's case is the

unsolved 2007 murder of Joel Loveline, a man who was beaten to death while attending a Halloween party at a bar.

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