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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 7 – Judy Smith

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 β€’ 3.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 May 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On April 9, 1997, Judy Smith, a 50-year old wife and mother from Newton, Massachusetts, decided to accompany her husband, Jeff, on a business trip to Philadelphia. The following day, Judy set out to do some sightseeing in the city while her husband attended a conference. When Jeff returned to their hotel that night, Judy […]

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0:00.0

April 10th 1997

0:02.9

50-year-old Judy Smith has joined her husband on a business trip to Philadelphia

0:07.6

and plans to spend the day sightseeing while he attends a convention.

0:11.3

When Judy's husband returns to their hotel that night,

0:14.3

he discovers that she is vanished without explanation

0:17.2

and cannot be found anywhere in the city.

0:19.7

Five months later, Judy's skeletal remains are found in an isolated mountain area,

0:24.7

over 600 miles away in North Carolina.

0:28.3

After that, the trail went cold.

0:58.3

Hello everyone and welcome to episode number 7 of The Trail Went Cold.

1:11.2

I am your host Robin Warder and I've got a pretty baffling case to cover today.

1:16.0

A case which was once featured on this podcast,

1:18.8

all-time favorite TV show, On Solve Mysteries.

1:22.3

As I've mentioned here before, I'm a frequent poster in the On Solve Mysteries forum

1:26.7

at the sitcom's online message board.

1:29.5

Ever since I've started plugging this podcast over there,

1:32.6

I've had quite a few posters make requests about which cases they'd like to cover.

1:37.8

In fact, I've received more than one request to cover today's case,

1:41.7

the very strange death of a woman named Judy Smith.

1:45.2

But thankfully, this one was already near the top of my list of cases that I really wanted to cover,

1:50.6

so here we are.

1:52.6

I have previously featured this case in an article I wrote for listfirst.com,

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