July 11th, 1996, Knoxville, Tennessee. The body of 31-year-old Blair Adams is discovered in a parking lot.

He is nude from the waste down with $4,000 worth of different currencies scattered around his body, and the cause

of his death is determined to be a violent blow to the stomach. Blair hails from British Columbia

and had inexplicably quit his job to take a 4,000 mile cross-country trip to Knoxville.

He had been exhibiting paranoid behavior and seemed convinced that someone was trying to kill him,

but the exact circumstances of Blair's death remain unknown.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,

uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and today's episode is a big one

as I will be covering a case that many of you have been anxiously awaiting

for a long, long time, the mysterious 1996 death of Blair Adams.

That voice you just heard narrated our opening was Christie Tarver, who won our most recent listener voiceover contest.

Christie is one of the biggest supporters of the Trail Went Cold, and True Crime Podcasts in general,

and I've even had the pleasure of meeting her at CrimeCon both last year and this year so it was

awesome to draw her name and hear her voice on the show. Thanks so much Christie.

Anyway if you would like to enter this contest I will be providing more details on how to do so near the end of this

episode.

Today's story is one of the most highly requested cases to cover on the trail when cold,

as it's the type of mystery this podcast was made for.

Ever since it was featured on Unsaw Mysteries over 20 years ago, many true crime buffs have

ranked this among the most baffling cold cases ever.

I'm always fascinated by mysteries in which a victim is discovered at a location they had no reason

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