January 4th 1991. Like Havasu City, Arizona. 42-year-old audio designer John Iverson

disappears after leaving his home with a machinist named Jack Weber.

According to Iverson's spouse, Kathy Monroe, Weber had robbed her at gunpoint before kidnapping Iverson.

Three months later, Weber turns himself in, claiming that Monroe's story isn't true,

and that Iverson left with them voluntarily before staging his own disappearance and framing him

for kidnapping. Since there is no evidence of how to play, the charges against Weber are dropped,

but John Iverson is never found. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold. I'm your host Robin

Warner, and today I will be covering what might possibly be the weirdest missing person's case

ever featured on this podcast, the 1991 disappearance of John Iverson. And I gotta tell you,

I have never seen a story quite like this one. In most of the missing person's cases I've covered,

I roll my eyes at the suggestion that the victim staged their own disappearance and went off

somewhere to start a new life, but in this particular case, I might be willing to make an exception.

The subject of today's story is an audio designer named John Iverson, who was considered one of

the top figures in his field. I first learned about this case when I came across Iverson's profile

page on the Charlie project, and it blew my mind because it contains one of the longest, most

convoluted write-ups on the entire website. The primary source for most of the information you'll

hear today is a 1994 article from the Absolute Sound, one of the premier magazines for audio files,

considering how crazy this story is, it's surprising there isn't more information available

online, as the majority of the discussion you'll find about John Iverson is mostly on message

boards for audio files and conspiracy theorists. But this is the type of mystery that the trail

in cold was made for, so today I'm going to explore both angles. Was Iverson abducted and murdered,

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