The Trail Went Cold - Episode 68 - Ambrose Small

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

December 2, 1919. Toronto, Ontario. Ambrose Small, a wealthy 56-year old theater tycoon, has just completed a deal to sell off all his holdings for $1.7 million. After having a meeting with his lawyer at his office at the Grand Opera House, Small vanishes without a trace. Over the years, suspicion would be directed at numerous suspects, including Small’s wife and his personal secretary, who fled the country after stealing some of Small’s bonds. However, there was never enough evidence to implicate anyone and the case would even veer into supernatural territory after there were reported sightings of Small’s ghost haunting one of his former theatres. After 68 full-length episodes and 32 minisodes, “The Trail Went Cold” has officially released its 100th episode and to commemorate the occasion, we have travelled back nearly 100 years to cover one of Canada’s most famous unsolved mysteries. Special thanks to listeners Heather Jones, Laura Fulks, Andrea Canfield, Abbey Martin and Casey Brandt for narrating sections of today’s episode. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Small http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1891dmon.html http://www.prairieghosts.com/ambrose.html https://www.blogto.com/city/2012/02/ambrose_small_torontos_most_sensational_mystery/ http://torontothenandnow.blogspot.ca/2010/12/14-ambrose-small-and-torontos-crime-of.html “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing on podcast row at CrimeCon 2018 from May 4th-6th at the Gaylord Opryland hotel in Nashville. Listeners can receive a 10% discount on their ticket purchase by using the code “TTWC”. “The Trail Went Cold” is now 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	December 2nd, 1919, Toronto, Ontario.
0:05.0	Ambrose Small, a wealthy 56-year-old theater tycoon has just completed a deal to sell off his
0:10.4	holdings for $1.7 million.
0:13.5	After having a meeting with his lawyer at his office
0:16.0	at the Grand Opera House,
0:17.5	small vanishes without a trace.
0:20.2	Over the years, suspicion would be directed
0:22.4	toward small's wife and his personal secretary who fled the country after stealing some of Smalls bonds.
0:28.0	But there is no evidence to implicate anybody.
0:31.0	The case is officially closed in 1960 and there are reported
0:35.9	sightings of Smalls Ghost haunting one of his former theaters, but his ultimate fate
0:40.7	remains unknown. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, it's not. And, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to a very special milestone. Today we'll be presenting the
1:26.0	one hundredth episode of the Trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin Warder and yes even
1:31.8	I cannot believe that we have made it to 100 episodes.
1:35.5	Our podcast has been around for over two years now but it did not hit me until about a month ago
1:40.0	when I looked at the numbers on our episodes and minisodes and realized, wow, they almost equal 100.
1:46.0	So after producing 68 fall-length episodes and 32 minisodes, we have now officially reached that magic number. That voice you heard
1:54.8	narrating our introduction is one of our listeners Heather Jones. As you probably know,
1:59.7	the Trail Went Cold has a monthly contest in which listeners can win the chance to narrate the opening on one of our episodes, but to commemorate this milestone, I thought I'd do something special.
2:10.0	Instead of selecting one winner for this particular contest, I picked five, Heather Jones,
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