The Trail Went Cold - Episode 7 - Judy Smith

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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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 was not there and she could not be found anywhere in the city. Five months later, Judy’s skeletal remains would be discovered in a mountainous area… 600 miles away in North Carolina! The evidence indicated foul play, but eyewitness sightings seemed to suggest that Judy had traveled to the area voluntarily. Did Judy take an impromptu 600-mile trip without telling her family and if so, how did she wind up dead in the Appalachian Mountains? Join me for a new episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, as I analyze the truly baffling unexplained death of Judy Smith. Additional Reading: http://unsolved.com/archives/judy-smith http://citypaper.net/articles/071797/article010.shtml http://citypaper.net/articles/072497/article015.shtml http://citypaper.net/articles/100297/cb.smith.shtml http://citypaper.net/articles/100997/cb.buncombe.shtml http://articles.philly.com/1997-10-05/news/25540618_1_detectives-medical-examiner-crime-scene 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	April 10th, 1997.
0:03.0	50 year old Judy Smith has joined her husband on a business trip to Philadelphia
0:07.8	and plans to spend the day sightseeing while he attends a convention.
0:11.4	When Judy's husband returns to their hotel that night, he discovers
0:15.0	that she has vanished without explanation and cannot be found anywhere in the city. Five months
0:20.4	later, Judy's skeletal remains are found in an isolated mountain area, over 600
0:25.8	miles away in North Carolina.
0:28.4	After that, the trail went cold. I'm going to Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:55.0	uh, okay.
0:57.0	Oh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to episode number seven of the trail went cold.
1:10.7	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 all-time favorite TV show Unsolved Mysteries. As I mentioned to here before, I'm a frequent poster in the Unsolved Mysteries Forum at the Sitcom's online message board,
1:29.0	and ever since I've started plugging this podcast over there, I've had quite a few posters make requests
1:35.3	about which cases they'd like me to cover. In fact, I have received more than one request to cover
1:40.7	today's case, the very strange death of a woman named Judy Smith
1:44.6	but thankfully this one was already near the top of my list of cases that I
1:49.3	really wanted to cover so here we are I have previously featured this case in an article I wrote for
1:55.5	list first.com, 10 people who mysteriously vanished while traveling which was originally
2:00.9	published on August 2014.
2:04.1	I am particularly fascinated by mysteries in which it appears that the victim has inexplicably
2:09.4	traveled to a strange location before they met their untimely end.
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