The Trail Went Cold - Episode 445 - Lola and Robert Marvin

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

July 31, 1979. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 49-year old Lola Marvin plans to board a flight to Oklahoma City, but she never arrives. Four days later, Lola is found shot to death inside her car in the parking lot of Albuquerque International Airport. In September 1984, Lola’s 55-year old husband, Robert Marvin, disappears after visiting his new fiancée in Moab, Utah and his abandoned car is eventually discovered in an Albuquerque parking lot. Investigators explore the possibility that the two cases are connected, but even though an anonymous caller shares the identity of Lola’s alleged killer, her murder is never solved and Robert is never found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the bizarre story of a married couple who each became the center of their own separate unsolved mysteries five years apart. If you have information about the murder of Lola Marvin, please contact the Albuquerque Police Department at (505) 242-2677. If you have information about the disappearance of Robert Marvin, please contact the Moab Police Department at (435) 259-8938. Additional Reading: https://landofentrapment.blog/the-robert-and-lola-marvin-mystery/ https://charleyproject.org/case/robert-g-marvin-sr https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1903dmut.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/262847754/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/557140619/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/613506549/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/157304255/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/506497014/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/582415942/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/582292850/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-obituary-for-lola/40698430/ https://www.facebook.com/ColdCaseCoalition/posts/one-parent-murdered-one-disappearedin-july-1979-49-year-old-lola-adamson-marvin-/1694249914114917/ “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	July 31st, 1979. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
0:06.1	49-year-old Lola Marvin plans to travel to Oklahoma City, but she never boards her flight,
0:11.6	and is found shot to death inside her car in the airport parking lot four days later.
0:16.6	In September of 1984, Lola's 55-year-old husband, Robert Marvin,
0:21.4	disappears after visiting his new fiancé in Moab, Utah,
0:25.3	and his abandoned car is eventually discovered in an Albuquerque parking lot.
0:30.0	Investigators explore the possibility that the two cases are connected,
0:33.9	but even though an anonymous caller shares the identity of Lolo's alleged killer,
0:38.4	her murder is never solved and Robert is never found.
0:42.0	After that, the trail went cold.
1:25.8	The... I'm not going to be. And so you're and I'm I'm going to I'm and the and I'm and and I'm and I'm and I'm and I'm Hello, everyone, and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:29.1	I'm your host Robin Werder, and this week we're going to be covering the story of a married couple, which is technically two mysteries rolled into one,
1:34.1	the 1979 murder of Lola Marvin and the subsequent 1984 disappearance of her husband, Robert Marvin.
1:41.5	Of course, there's always been speculation that these two mysteries are related to each
1:45.3	other, but neither of them have been solved. At the time Lola Marvin was murdered, she was living with her
1:51.1	husband in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and while he was away on a business trip to Canada, Lola made
1:56.6	plans to travel to Oklahoma City. But even though she apparently drove to the airport to catch her
2:02.3	flight and pulled into the parking lot, someone fatally shot her in the front seat of her car.
2:08.2	In the years following his wife's murder, Robert Marvin became engaged to another woman who
2:12.7	lived in Moab, Utah, and after paying her a visit there in September of 1984, Robert vanished without a trace
2:19.5	before his abandoned car was found in downtown Albuquerque nearly four weeks later.
2:25.3	Lola and Robert left behind two sons, who uncovered some odd clues which only raised more questions
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