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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 454 - Ada Constance Kent

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

March 6, 1939. Fingringhoe, England. After purchasing some cigarettes at a local pub, 67-year old Ada Constance Kent seems to disappear and over the course of the next decade, numerous searches are performed of her empty cottage and they fail to turn up any trace of her. Ten years later, a human skeleton is discovered beneath some rubble in the cottage’s bedroom alongside an empty bottle of poison, and after a forensic examination is performed, there is some uncertainty about who the remains actually belong to. When an inquest is held, a coroner’s jury does eventually conclude that the skeleton is likely Ada Constance Kent, but since they are unable to determine her exact cause of death, they return an open verdict. Did Ada Constance Kent die inside her cottage and remain undiscovered for an entire decade? If not, then what actually happened to her? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel back to the United Kingdom to explore a truly bizarre mystery. Join us on Saturday, October 25 at 8:00pm ET for a Halloween-themed online streaming marathon where we will be watching classic segments from “Unsolved Mysteries”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. Additional Reading: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mvbtw https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Ada_Constance_Kent https://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/the-fingringhoe-skeleton/ "Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Colchester" by Patrick Denney https://www.newspapers.com/image/1182993941/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/397806138/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/791699254/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/789295887 “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.

Transcript

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March 6th, 1939. Fingeringho, England. After purchasing some cigarettes at a local pub,

0:08.7

67-year-old Ada Constance Kent seems to disappear, and over the course of the next decade,

0:14.6

numerous searches of her empty cottage failed to turn up any trace of her. Ten years later,

0:20.2

a human skeleton is discovered beneath some rubble

0:22.6

in the cottage's bedroom, and after a forensic examination is performed, there is uncertainty

0:28.2

about who the remains belonged to. When an inquest is held, a coroner's jury does eventually conclude

0:34.7

that the victim is likely Ada Constance Kent, but since they are

0:38.8

unable to determine her exact cause of death, they return an open verdict, and the case

0:43.6

remained shrouded in mystery. After that, the trail went cold. I'm not going to be able to be. I'm not.

0:55.0

I'm a lot of the same.

0:57.0

I'm fine.

0:59.0

I'm sorry.

1:00.0

I'm sorry.

1:01.0

I'm not.

1:03.0

I'm.

1:05.0

And you're going to be.

1:07.0

I'm a.

1:09.0

And so I'm your host Robin Warder,

1:30.8

and for the second consecutive week, we're going to be traveling to the United Kingdom to explore

1:36.0

an incredibly bizarre mystery, the 1939 disappearance and unexplained death of Ada Constance Kent.

1:43.9

So as you probably know, our podcast is

1:46.6

continuing the tradition of counting down to October the 31st by spending the rest of this month

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