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January 5th, 1992.

Gilmer, Texas.

After finishing the night shift at a local video store, 17-year-old Kelly Day Wilson vanishes without explanation, and her car is found in the parking lot with one of its tires slashed.

Two years later, eight suspects, one of them a police officer

investigating the case, are indicted for Kelly's abduction and murder and accused of being

members of a satanic cult. However, when the satanic cult story is debunked,

the charges against the suspects are dropped, but the exact circumstances of Kelly Day Wilson's disappearance remain unknown.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh,

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Oh, uh, okay. Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got a really bizarre

missing person's case to cover today the 1992 disappearance of Kelly Day Wilson and

for the first time we are going to be broaching a pretty infamous subject,

satanic cults. If you lived through the 1980s and early 1990s, it must have felt like virtually every other unsolved cold case was blamed on a satanic cult.

The actual term for this was satanic panic, and it became a widespread phenomenon where people everywhere became paranoid that

satanic ritual abuse was running rampant. The whole phenomenon is too

extensive to delve into here but long story short it paved the way for what was known as the daycare sex abuse

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