The Trail Went Cold - Episode 444 - Tristan "Buddy" Myers

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

October 5, 2000. Roseboro, North Carolina. While his great-aunt is napping, four-year old Tristen “Buddy” Myers, a child with a history of behavioral problems and violent outbursts, disappears from the property of their rural home. Two of the family’s dogs disappear alongside Buddy and while they both resurface days later, a massive search effort fails to turn up any trace of the child. Over the years, investigators explore a number of different leads and debate whether Buddy could have been abducted or died of exposure in the woods, but there is no conclusive evidence pointing in any direction. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a tragic unsolved missing children’s case. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/tristen-alan-myers https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125197&page=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/30/us/tale-of-a-little-boy-lost-may-have-a-happy-ending.html https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2003/04/30/family-convinced-child-in-illinois-is-missing-north-carolina-boy/31278337007/ http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/05/01/missing.boy/ https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2004/03/07/mother-of-missing-boy-dies/30542395007/ https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/2019/07/11/buddy-myers-little-boy-who-vanished-without-trace/4714888007/ https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2003/05/02/on-the-trail-of-buddy-myers-years-later/30515264007/ https://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7978324/?comment_order=forward https://www.wral.com/story/buddy-myers-missing-for-decades-from-sampson-county-would-be-28-next-week/21522366/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/658193786/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1160363627/ “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	October 5th, 2000.
0:03.0	Roseboro, North Carolina.
0:06.0	While his great aunt is napping,
0:08.0	4-year-old Tristan Buddy Myers
0:10.0	disappears from the property of the rural home,
0:12.0	alongside two of the family's dogs.
0:15.0	While the dogs eventually return,
0:17.0	a massive search effort fails to turn up any trace of Buddy
0:20.0	who had a history of behavioral problems and violent outbursts.
0:23.9	Over the years, investigators explore a number of different leads
0:27.2	and debate whether Buddy could have been abducted or died of exposure in the woods,
0:31.8	but there's no conclusive evidence pointing in any direction.
0:35.3	After that, the trail went cold.
0:38.3	The trail went cold. Hello, everyone, and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:17.9	I'm our host Robin Werder, and this week we're going to be covering a very sad missing
1:22.8	children's case, the 2000 disappearance of four-year-old Tristan Buddy Myers. This story was brought to my attention
1:30.2	several years ago by a listener named Laura, and it's one of those tragic cases about a child who
1:35.3	was forced to live a very difficult life before they became the victim of an unsolved mystery.
1:40.8	The mother of Tristan Myers, nicknamed Buddy, was only 15 years old when she gave birth to him,
1:46.4	and since she was incapable of handling the responsibility, the boy would be raised by his grandparents
1:51.2	for a few years, before he eventually wound up living with his great aunt and great uncle
1:55.7	at a rural residence in North Carolina. Unfortunately, Buddy was emotionally and physically underdeveloped and had a
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