March 22, 2010.

Whiskey-Lukin, Mexico.

Palette Habara-Fara, a four-year-old girl with developmental disabilities, vanishes

from her bedroom and a massive search campaign fails to turn up any trace of her.

Nine days later, Palette's decomposing body is discovered wedged between her mattress

and the footboard of her bed and a police inquiry rules that she got stuck there accidentally

and died of his fixation.

However, many people find it unlikely that Palette's body could have been there the entire

time she was missing, so her parents face accusations that they were responsible for her

death and orchestrated a cover-up.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got a doozy of a case on tap for today.

The unexplained 2010 death of Palette Habara-Fara.

One of my most highly requested cases I get asked to cover on this podcast is the murder

of John Binay Ramsey, which shouldn't come as any surprise given that it's probably

the most famous unsolved cold case of the modern era.

Of course it's been analyzed and dissected to death and I usually prefer to cover lesser

known cold cases on the trail went cold.

So I thought this might be a good time to put together an episode about a story which

has often been referred to as Mexico's version of the John Binay Ramsey case.

It involves a four-year-old Mexican girl named Palette Habara-Fara, who supposedly

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