The Trail Went Cold - Episode 46 - Tommy Burkett

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

December 1, 1991. Herndon, Virginia. The parents of 21-year old Tommy Burkett return home to find him dead in his bedroom, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. When the authorities arrive, Tommy’s parents are immediately taken aback by their suspicious behaviour and notice strange discrepancies to make them believe their son did not commit suicide. Upon further investigation, they find evidence to suggest Tommy might have been murdered for doing undercover work with the Drug Enforcement Administration on his university campus and that a massive cover-up surrounds his death. Did Tommy Burkett actually take his own life, or did many people conspire to have him killed? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we tackle one of the most suspicious suicide cases you’ll ever come across. Special thanks to listener Eve Davis for providing the opening narration for today’s episode. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/tommy-burkett/ http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Thomas_Burkett http://www.dcdave.com/article4/020704.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20051105020746/http://thepacc.org:80/ 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	December 1st, 1991, Herndon, Virginia.
0:05.8	The parents of 21-year-old Tommy Birkett
0:08.2	return home to find him dead in his bedroom,
0:11.3	the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
0:14.9	When police arrive, Tommy's parents are immediately taken aback by their suspicious
0:19.6	behavior and notice strange discrepancies to make them think their son did not commit suicide.
0:25.0	Upon further investigation, they find evidence to suggest Tommy might have been murdered
0:31.0	for doing undercover work with the Drug Enforcement Administration
0:34.8	and then a massive cover-up surrounds his death. After that, the trail went cold. old. I'm going to Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, okay.
1:07.0	Oh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our newest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:20.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and yes our podcast has once again started off with an
1:25.2	unfamiliar voice that was Eve Davis the winner of our latest contest where
1:30.4	listeners can earn a chance to recite the opening narration for one of our episodes,
1:35.0	and she did a tremendous job, so thank you very much, Eve.
1:38.0	This has become a recurring monthly contest for the podcast,
1:41.0	and I will share more details about how you can enter at the end of this episode.
1:46.0	Anyway, the case we're featuring today was actually suggested by the winner of last month's voice over contest, Scott Owings, and it's a great choice because I've been
1:55.2	wanting to cover this story for a while.
1:57.7	The suspicious 1991 suicide of Tommy Burkett.
2:02.1	The case was featured on Uns unsolved mysteries and was one of their many stories about a victim whose death was officially ruled to be a suicide by the authorities,
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