The Trail Went Cold - Episode 446 - Scott Fosnaught and Shawn Baur

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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July 17, 2002. Butler County, Pennsylvania. After spending the night partying and drinking, 15-year old Scott Fosnaught and his 15-year old best friend, Shawn Baur, leave a friend’s house in order to walk back home during the early morning hours. Shortly thereafter, their bodies are discovered by the side of a rural road and Scott’s injuries seem to indicate that he was the victim of a hit-and-run by a vehicle. However, Shawn only has some fatal head wounds and a crushed skull, but since he has no injuries beneath his shoulders, it appears that he was killed in another fashion. This makes the boys’ families suspect that their deaths were not an accident, but no suspects are ever identified and the truth about what happened remains unknown. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the baffling unexplained deaths of two teenage boys. In addition, we will also discuss the unsolved 1992 murder of David Hurley, who was shot to death in an apparent road rage incident in neighbouring Allegheny County. Additional Reading: https://archive.triblive.com/news/hit-run-driver-suspected-in-death-of-2-teens/ https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/state-police-butler-county-cold-case-reward/ https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/20-years-since-deaths-of-shawn-baur-and-scott-fosnaught-butler-county/ https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/mother-still-looking-answers-21-years-after-son-friend-killed-rural-butler-county-road/MA3EVNH2N5DHDOE5BMVPLBTAPQ/ https://www.butlereagle.com/20220721/mystery-still-surrounds-deaths-of-two-seneca-valley-teens/ https://www.post-gazette.com/local/north/2017/07/17/shawn-baur-scott-fosnaught-cold-case-butler-county-cashdollar-road-forward-township/stories/201707170148 https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/12/accident-or-murder-police-families-still-baffled-by-2002-deaths-of-boys-on-rural-western-pa-road.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/90299670/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1079296828/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/David_Hurley https://unsolved.com/gallery/david-hurley/ https://archive.triblive.com/news/new-leads-emerge-when-old-case-featured-on-tv/ http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=218248 “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 17, 2002. Butler County, Pennsylvania. After spending the night partying,
0:08.4	15-year-old Scott Bosnott and his 15-year-old best friend, Sean Bauer, leave a friend's house
0:13.9	in order to walk back home during the early morning hours. Shortly thereafter, their bodies
0:18.9	are discovered by the side of a rural road,
0:25.3	and Scott's injuries seem to indicate that he was the victim of a hit and run by a vehicle.
0:29.1	However, Sean's only injury are some fatal head wounds,
0:33.5	which suggests he was killed in another faction and the boy's deaths were not an accident,
0:42.3	but no suspects are ever identified, and the truth about what happened remains unknown. After that not. I'm not. The Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:22.9	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be covering a case about a pair of teenage best
1:28.2	friends who were simultaneously killed under bizarre circumstances, the unexplained
1:33.1	2002 deaths of Scott Fosnot and Sean Bauer. After a night of partying and drinking, Scott and
1:39.9	Sean left a friend's residence shortly before 1.30 a.m. in order to walk back home down a dark
1:44.9	country road in Butler County, Pennsylvania. But sometime within the next 20 to 30 minutes,
1:50.3	their bodies would be discovered by the side of the road after both boys suffered fatal injuries.
1:55.6	At the outset, it appeared that they had been the victims of a hit-and-run accident, as Scott's
2:00.4	injuries did seem to
2:01.5	be consistent with being struck by a vehicle, but the investigation took a surprising turn
2:06.5	when the autopsy revealed that Sean had only suffered two fatal wounds to the head which crushed
2:11.1	his skull, yet he did not have any injuries on the rest of his body beneath his shoulders.
2:16.5	While his manner of death has never been
2:18.3	conclusively determined, it seems pretty unlikely that Sean was struck by a vehicle, so how could
2:23.6	two victims who were found at the same crime scene, who were presumably killed at the same time,
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