September 5th, 1978. Sterling, Alaska. 13-year-old Scott Fandell and his eight-year-old half-sister,

Amy Fandell, are dropped off at their cabin by their mother, Margaret Fandall, who then goes out to some

bars with her own sister. When Margaret and her sister returned home during the early morning

hours, they discover

a pot of warm water on the stove next to some macaroni and tomato sauce, but Scott and Amy are missing.

There is speculation that the two children were abducted, and while investigators explore a number

of different leads, including the possibility that some carnival workers or Margaret's

estranged husband were responsible for the disappearances, no trace of Scott and Amy is ever found.

After that, the trail went cold. I'm not going to be. And so on the I'm going to be. I'm sorry. I'm going to and so. And so. And the one. And so and and I'm and I'm our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin Werder,

and this week we'll be exploring a strange missing children's case involving a pair of siblings,

the 1978 disappearances of Scott and Amy Fandel. As you might know, before I started this podcast,

I used to write articles about cold cases and

unsolved mysteries at the website listfirst.com, and the very first article I published, 10 mysterious

disappearances of multiple people, came out all the way back in April of 2013. Well, this obviously

played a major role in inspiring me to start the trail went cold, and all of the

cases which were featured on that list have either been covered on the podcast or wound up being solved

this past decade. For the longest time, the lone holdout from that list has been the disappearance

of the Fandell children, so I think an episode about

them is long overdue. At the time they went missing, Scott Fandel was 13 years old, and Amy Fandell

was eight, and they were both living in a cabin in rural Alaska with their single mother, Margaret

Fandall. The two children were technically half-siblings, as Scott's biological father

played no role in his life, and while Amy's biological father Roger Fandell was married to Margaret

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