The Trail Went Cold - Episode 447 - Jodie Bordeaux

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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November 21, 1997. Powhattan, Kansas. 28-year old Jodie Bordeaux, who happens to be seven months pregnant, is spending the evening with her husband at their rural farmhouse when several bullets from a semi-automatic rifle are fired into the residence. A bullet strikes Jodie in the head and kills her instantly and her unborn baby daughter, Jordan Shay, also dies. There is speculation that Jodie’s murder might be connected to a conflict from her managerial job at a casino on the Kickapoo Reservation, as a troublesome employee had been fired there under her watch. However, even though investigators have at least three potential suspects in mind, there is not enough to implicate anyone in the crime, so it remains unsolved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the unsolved homicide of a pregnant woman. In addition, we will be briefly discussing the unsolved murder of 21-year old Amanda Aldridge, who was also shot to death inside her home in Calhoun, Louisiana in April 2020. If you have information on the murder of Jodie Bordeaux, please contact the Brown County Sheriff’s Office at (785) 742-7125 or the Kansas City Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-572-7463. If you have information on the murder of Amanda Aldridge, please contact the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office at (318) 324-2669 or Crime Stoppers at North Delta at (318) 388-CASH (2274). Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/jodie-bordeaux/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jodie_Bordeaux https://www.kansas.gov/kbi/mostwanted/mw_bordeaux.shtml https://ictnews.org/archive/after-three-years-still-no-justice-for-jodie/ https://ictnews.org/archive/unsolved-mysteries-explores-kickapoo-double-murder/ https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2015/04/18/family-unsolved-homicide-victim-wants-justice/16631823007/ https://www.myarklamiss.com/crime/arklamiss-mostwanted/five-years-since-murder-of-pregnant-woman-in-calhoun/ “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 21st, 1997, Powhatan, Kansas.
0:06.8	28-year-old Jody Bordeaux, who happens to be seven months pregnant, is spending the
0:11.7	evening with her husband at the rural farmhouse when several bullets from a semi-automatic
0:16.3	rifle are fired into the residence. A bullet strikes Jody in the head and kills her instantly,
0:21.6	and her unborn baby daughter, Jordan Shea, also dies.
0:25.6	There is speculation that Jody's murder might be connected to a conflict from her workplace,
0:30.6	involving a troublesome employee who was fired while she was a manager,
0:34.6	but since there is not enough evidence to implicate anyone in the crime,
0:38.3	it remains unsolved. After that, the trail went cold. I'm not I'm I'm and I'm I'm and I'm and and and I'm of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host, Robin
1:24.8	Warder, and today we're going to be exploring a heartbreaking story which
1:29.0	was featured on Unsaw Mysteries, the 1997 murder of Jody Bordeaux.
1:34.6	Or should I say, the murder of Jody and her unborn baby daughter, Jordan Shea Bordeaux.
1:40.7	At the time of her death, Jody and her husband, Sean Bordeaux, lived together at a rented farmhouse
1:46.8	in rural Kansas, and she was seven months pregnant with their first child. However, their lives
1:52.4	would be ruined when someone fired a series of bullets from a semi-automatic rifle into the residence,
1:58.1	and one of them struck Jody in the head and caused the deaths of both her
2:01.7	and her child. This crime took place near the Kickapoo Reservation, and Jody and Sean had worked at a local,
2:08.8	Native American-owned casino, but there seemed to be some resentment over the fact that a white woman
2:14.2	like Jody was promoted to a management position, and she frequently clashed
2:18.4	with one particular employee who wound up being fired for his poor performance.
2:23.6	This employee would file a grievance which led to Jody losing her job, but just when it seemed
2:28.4	like she was on the verge of being rehired, things escalated into violence.
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