April 26, 1980. Manchester, New Hampshire. The mother of 14-year-old Lorraine

Ron returns to their apartment building and discovers that the light bulbs in the hallways

and all three floors have been unscrewed. When she enters her apartment, she discovers that one

of Lorraine's friends is sleeping in her bed, but Lorraine herself is nowhere to be found.

Over the next few years, Lorraine's disappearance would feature a number of strange leads,

including a series of mysterious unexplained phone calls and alleged ties to pornography.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to episode number 6 of the trail went cold. I am your host Robin

Warder and today's case is another request from a listener. As I mentioned here before,

I am a frequent poster in the Unsolved Mysteries Forum at the sitcom's online message board.

I was recently contacted by a fellow poster named Unsolved 88, who sent me a list of suggestions

of lesser-known missing persons' cases that they wanted me to cover on this podcast. So thank you

for that Unsolved 88. And in the end, the selection I chose to go with was the 1980 disappearance of a 14-year-old girl named Lorraine Ron.

And one of my main reasons for choosing this one is because I actually covered this case in one of my

earliest articles at listfirst.com called 10 Mysterious Disappearances with Bizarre Clues.

And it was published in April of 2013. And I do believe that is an apt title for the article because

this case is nothing but a series of bizarre clues. It's one of the strangest missing persons'

cases I've ever come across as there are so many weird details to pour through. But since this isn't a

very well-known case, there aren't a lot of sources of information available for it. So it's really

hard to figure out how a lot of these weird details fit together. But I'm going to give it my best shot.

But first, I want to thank all my listeners and supporters out there, which seems to be growing

with each episode. In particular, I want to thank my thus far small but very loyal band of Twitter

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