The Trail Went Cold - Episode 474 - Toni Clark

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

March 16, 1990. San Francisco County, California. 17-year old Toni Clark, who happens to be two months pregnant, leaves her cousin’s residence in Oakland to drive back to her apartment in San Bruno in her boyfriend’s Chevrolet Camaro. Shortly thereafter, the stalled Camaro is discovered on the Bay Bridge and after another motorist crashes into it, investigators conclude that Toni was likely propelled off the bridge into San Francisco Bay. However, Toni’s body is never recovered and there are a number of odd discrepancies, such as reported sightings of a black male next to the Camaro shortly before the accident and a bizarre anonymous phone call to Toni’s mother, which cause speculation that Toni was abducted. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will explore whether Toni Clark was actually the victim of a tragic accident or if something much more sinister happened. In addition, we’ll also discuss the unsolved disappearances of 28-year old Diego Garcia, 41-year old Carmen Burhans Garcia and eight-year old Barbara Burhans, who all vanished after leaving their home in Los Angeles in March 1982 before their abandoned car was discovered 250 miles away at the bottom of a gorge in the San Gabriel Mountains. If you have any information about the disappearance of Toni Clark, please contact the San Bruno Police Department at (415) 877-8965. If you have any information about the disappearances of Diego Garcia, Carmen Burhans Garcia or Barbara Burhans, please contact the Los Angeles Police Department at (213) 485-3225. Join us on Saturday, March 21 at 8:00pm ET for an 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://charleyproject.org/case/toni-danieelle-clark https://www.newspapers.com/image/1225351368/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/779247127/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/779247141/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/461548309/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/758981652/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/696741911/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/696741925/ https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-Other-Missing-Kids-They-quickly-faded-from-2975456.php https://abcnews.com/Primetime/story?id=131955 https://www.newspapers.com/image/633633829/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/633633861/ https://charleyproject.org/case/diego-garcia https://charleyproject.org/case/carmen-maria-burhans-garcia https://charleyproject.org/case/barbara-aurora-burhans “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	March 16th, 1990. San Francisco County, California. 17-year-old Tony Clark leaves her cousin's
0:09.2	residence in Oakland in order to drive back to her apartment in San Bruno and her boyfriend,
0:14.2	Chevrolet Camaro. Shortly thereafter, the stalled Camaro was discovered on the Bay Bridge,
0:19.6	and after another motorist crashes into it,
0:21.6	investigators conclude that Tony was likely propelled off the bridge into San Francisco Bay,
0:26.6	even though her body is never recovered.
0:29.6	However, there are a number of odd discrepancies, such as reported sightings of a black male next to the Camaro
0:35.6	shortly before the accident and a bizarre
0:38.2	anonymous phone call to Tony's mother, which caused speculation that Tony was the victim of an
0:43.3	abduction, but no trace of her is ever found. After that, the trail went cold. I'm not going to be. I'm going to
0:57.0	and I'm going to be.
0:59.0	I'm going to be.
1:01.0	I'm going to be.
1:03.0	I'm going host, Robert Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:30.8	I'm your host Robin Warder, and this week we're going to be exploring a very unusual missing
1:36.0	person's case, the 1990 disappearance of Tony Clark.
1:40.8	This is the story of a 17-year-old girl who happened to be two months pregnant and vanished while driving home in her boyfriend, Chevroley Camaro.
1:49.2	At some point, the Camaro stalled on the Bay Bridge before a motorist crashed into the vehicle, causing it to flip into the guardrail,
1:56.7	and since an eyewitness thought they saw a figure standing next to the car right before the accident took place,
2:02.0	the authorities assumed it was Tony and that the collision propelled her off the bridge into San Francisco Bay.
2:08.7	In fact, even though Tony's body could not be recovered, and there was no definitive proof that she was dead,
2:13.9	the authorities were so certain of this scenario that the motorists who crashed in
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