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August 19, 1977, Circleville, Ohio.

After receiving a phone call in angry Ron Gillespie frantically drives away from his home and dies

after crashing into a tree.

For the past year, Ron's wife Mary had been receiving anonymous threatening letters expressing

anger about her alleged affair with another man.

Five and a half years later, Mary would find a homemade booby trap containing a gun which

belongs to Ron's former brother-in-law, Paul Freshauer.

Paul is accused of being the author of the anonymous letters and spends ten years in

prison for Mary's attempted murder.

But the threatening letters continue to be sent while Paul is incarcerated, creating

much debate about the identity of the mysterious Circleville writer.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our special two-year anniversary episode of the Trail

Went Cold.

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