The Trail Went Cold - Episode 50 - Kevin Showalter

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Christmas Eve, 1973. New London, Connecticut. While changing a tire, 20-year old Kevin Showalter is struck by a passing vehicle and killed in a hit-and-run. When the local police botch the investigation and make no effort to solve the case, Kevin’s mother is forced to fight for answers on her own. Years later, a grand jury investigation is launched and the town’s former mayor is named as the probable driver of the vehicle. However, further complications ensue when another man comes forward and confesses to the crime, creating debate about who was actually responsible for Kevin’s death. This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” will be examining what is perhaps the most extensive and controversial hit-and-run case in the history of the United States, which has still not found a conclusive resolution after four decades. We would like to thank Sock Club for sponsoring the Trail Went Cold. To earn 15 % off your next order of socks, visit sockclub.com/cold and use the discount code “cold”. Additional Reading: http://people.com/archive/a-mothers-anguish-kept-alive-a-sons-memory-and-her-lonely-search-for-his-hit-and-run-killer-vol-10-no-3/ http://articles.courant.com/2005-12-12/news/0512120514_1_grand-jury-mr-hansen-case http://cooljustice.blogspot.ca/2013/02/this-is-what-grand-jury-report-looks.html http://cooljustice.blogspot.ca/2016/09/hit-and-run-chronology-grand-jury.html The Day (Dec. 25, 1983) 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	We would like to send out a special thanks to Sock Club for supporting the trail went cold.
0:05.0	And we would like to thank you the listeners by offering you the chance to earn 15% off your
0:09.4	next order of socks when you visit Sock Club.com slash cold and use the discount code cold.
0:16.0	That's sock club dot com slash cold and the discount code is cold.
0:21.0	Enjoy the show.
0:38.0	Christmas Eve, 1973. New London, Connecticut. While changing attire,year-old Kevin Showalter is struck by a passing vehicle and killed in a hit and run. When police make no effort to solve the case, Kevin's mother is forced to fight for answers until a grand jury
0:45.2	investigation is held years later, naming the town's former mayor as the
0:49.3	probable driver of the vehicle. However, further complications ensue when another man comes forward to confess to the crime,
0:56.5	creating much debate about who was actually responsible for Kevin Showalter's death.
1:02.2	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:14.0	uh, for the first uh, uh, yeah. And, uh, uh, uh,
1:25.0	uh, so, uh, and uh,
1:26.0	uh,
1:25.0	uh,
1:28.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our newest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:47.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and throughout the month of December we have been covering some
1:51.4	unsolved mysteries which took place around Christmas time.
1:54.0	For this episode, I've selected a cold case which most of you are probably not familiar with. The unsolved hit and run death of Kevin Showalter, which took place on Christmas Eve in 1973. I first became familiar with this story when I included it in an article I published for Liss first.com three years ago about unsolved Christmas time mysteries.
2:16.0	But at the time, I did not yet know how deep a rabbit hole it really was.
2:21.0	Cold cases involving hit and run deaths are often very difficult to solve, because unless
2:26.2	someone actually witnessed the event, there's usually very little evidence to work with. But the
2:31.6	death of Kevin Showalter wound up ballooning into one of the most extensive hit and run cases in the history of the United States.
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