The Trail Went Cold - Episode 75 - Amanda Gallion and Patrick Ghering

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

October 13, 1997. Gillette, Wyoming. 14-year old Amanda Gallion leaves her home for school, but never arrives and is reported missing. Suspicion turns towards Amanda’s 20-year old boyfriend, Patrick Ghering, who denies any knowledge of her disappearance. Six days later, Patrick goes missing himself after his abandoned vehicle is discovered by the side of the road. Over the next several years, Amanda would be looked at as a potential victim of notorious child predator, Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, and spark controversy when a jailhouse snitch attempts to pin her disappearance on another convicted murder. However, the leads never pan out, and no trace of Amanda or Patrick is ever found. Are their disappearances connected, or did they both go missing under entirely different circumstances? We explore all the different angles of this baffling story on this week’s edition of “The Trail Went Cold”. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/amanda-dawn-gallion http://charleyproject.org/case/patrick-lee-ghering http://www.ktiv.com/story/12184850/strahl-pleads-guilty-to-lesser-charge-in-1998-beating-death “Eat the Evidence: A Journey Through the Dark Boroughs of a Pedophilic Cannibal’s Mind” by John C. Espy “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” will be appearing alongside other true crime podcasts at a “A Canadian Crime Podcast Event” on July 22 at The Hideout in Toronto. For more information on the event and to purchase tickets for only $10, please visit here. “The Trail Went Cold” will be in attendance at PodernLove, a podcasting convention being held at the Intercontinental Hotel in New Orleans from August 10-12. In order to receive a 10 % discount on tickets to the event, please visit their website and use our personalized promo code, “Robert Stack”. 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	October 13th, 1997.
0:04.0	Gillette, Wyoming.
0:07.0	14 year old Amanda Galleon leaves her home to head for school, but never arise, and is eventually reported missing.
0:15.1	Suspicion turns towards Amanda's 20-year-old boyfriend Patrick Garing who denies
0:19.8	any knowledge of her disappearance and goes missing himself when his abandoned vehicle is discovered
0:24.9	by the side of the road six days later. Over the years, two convicted criminals are suspected
0:31.0	of being responsible for Amanda's disappearance, but the leads never pan out,
0:35.6	and no trace of Amanda or Patrick is ever found.
0:39.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh,
1:03.0	so good. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold. I'm your host Robin Warder and today I will be
1:25.4	covering a missing person's case involving a couple, the 1997 disappearances of
1:30.7	14 year old Amanda Galleon and her 20-year-old boyfriend Patrick Garing.
1:36.0	But this story is unique in that the couple didn't disappear together, but actually went
1:40.3	missing under completely different circumstances six days apart.
1:44.0	Naturally, given their age difference and the questionable nature of their relationship,
1:49.0	the initial assumption was that Amanda and Patrick might have run away together, but there has been no trace of them in 20 years, and something clearly doesn't add up here. There have been a number of potential leads in Amanda's disappearance, including speculation that she was a victim of Nathaniel
2:04.9	Bar Jonah, one of the most evil criminals you will ever hear about, and a controversial series of events
2:11.0	in which a man on trial for another crime was accused of confessing to Amanda's murder, but that whole episode would turn into a complete mess.
2:19.0	However, amid all these twists and turns involving Amanda, Patrick Garing seems to have been completely forgotten about, and there's virtually no information out there about his disappearance.
2:29.0	But I'm going to explore both cases on this episode, and determine the likelihood of whether or not they are connected.
2:35.2	Anyway before we get started just a quick reminder that the Trail Went Cold is a weekly podcast which is currently available for download on several platforms including iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Music.
2:46.0	So if you like this podcast, be sure to subscribe to it, and please leave us a rating or review on any of those sites
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