The Trail Went Cold - Episode 441 - The Klein Brothers

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

November 10, 1951. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Three brothers from the Klein family – eight-year old Kenneth, six-year old David and four-year old Danny – leave their residence to go play in nearby Farview Park, but they never return home. When a search effort is launched, the brothers’ scents are tracked to a bank of the Mississippi River about a mile away. After two woollen caps are found on a layer of ice, the Minneapolis Police Department concludes that all three boys fell into the water and drowned. However, there are a number of suspicious details to make the boys’ family suspect they were kidnapped and harmed, but even though the case is reinvestigated decades later, no trace of the Kenneth, David or Danny is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the unsolved disappearance of the Klein brothers, a rare case where three siblings went missing simultaneously. Special thanks to listener to Thomas Crow for narrating the opening of this episode. If you happen to have any information about this case, please contact the Minneapolis Police Department tip line at 612-692-TIPS (8477). Additional Reading: "The Lost Brothers: A Family's Decades-Long Search" by Jack El-Hai "Long Lost: An Investigative History Series" Podcast by Twin Cities PBS https://charleyproject.org/case/kenneth-thomas-klein-jr https://charleyproject.org/case/daniel-james-klein https://charleyproject.org/case/david-john-klein https://mspmag.com/arts-and-culture/the-lost-brothers-jack-el-hai/ https://racketmn.com/klein-brothers-missing-minnesota-cold-case https://www.inforum.com/news/the-vault/minnesotas-oldest-listed-missing-persons-case-what-happened-to-the-three-klein-brothers https://www.the-sun.com/news/us-news/7929332/missing-klein-brothers-murdered-detective/ “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 10, 1951, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
0:05.8	Three brothers from the Klein family, 8-year-old Kenneth, 6-year-old David, and 4-year-old Danny,
0:12.5	leave their residents to go play in nearby Farview Park, but they never return home.
0:18.1	When a search effort is launched, the brothers' scents are tracked to the bank of the
0:21.7	Mississippi River, and after two woolen caps are found on some ice, police conclude that all
0:26.6	three boys fell into the water and drowned. However, there are a number of suspicious details
0:32.8	to make the boys' family suspect they were kidnapped and harmed. But even though the case is
0:37.4	reinvestigated decades
0:38.7	later, no trace of the Klein Brothers I'm not. And so,
0:55.0	I'm going to
0:57.0	I'm
0:59.0	and
1:00.0	the Hello, everyone, and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:26.4	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week,
1:29.0	we're going to be covering a missing children's case in which three siblings went missing at the
1:33.1	same time, the 1951 disappearance of the Klein Brothers. That voice you just heard narrating our
1:39.3	intro was Thomas Crow, the latest winner of our most recent trail went called listener voiceover contest,
1:45.2	so thank you very much, Thomas. This is a recurring monthly contest which we've been carrying on
1:50.1	for eight years now, so if you'd like to enter and haven't already done so, I will be providing
1:54.9	instructions near the end of this episode. Anyway, Thomas's mother, Jennifer Crow, once sent
2:00.7	an request for me to cover the Klein
2:02.3	Brothers case, so I thought it was about time I did an episode. Nearly 74 years ago, three brothers
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