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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 77 - Paulette Gebara Farah

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

March 22, 2010. Huixquilucan, Mexico. Paulette Gebara Farah, a four-year girl with developmental disabilities, vanishes from her bedroom and a massive search campaign fails to turn up any trace of her. Nine days later, Paulette’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 asphyxiation. However, many people find it unlikely that Paulette’s body could have remained there undiscovered the entire time she was missing, and her parents display enough suspicious behavior to face accusations that they were responsible for her death and orchestrated a cover-up. This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” travels down to Mexico to tackle a story which became a media circus and remains one of the most controversial cases in the history of the country. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette_Gebara_Farah http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/01/mexico.dead.girl/ http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/11/world/la-fg-mexico-paulette11-2010apr11 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-shocked-by-discovery-of-girls-body/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/62rvs3/who_murdered_4_year_old_paulette_gebara_found/ “The Trail Went Cold” is 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

March 22, 2010.

0:04.3

Whiskey-Lukin, Mexico.

0:07.6

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

0:12.6

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

0:17.9

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

0:23.0

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

0:28.2

and died of his fixation.

0:30.2

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

0:35.0

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

0:39.6

death and orchestrated a cover-up.

0:42.8

After that, the trail went cold.

0:58.2

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

1:25.6

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

1:30.4

The unexplained 2010 death of Palette Habara-Fara.

1:35.3

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

1:39.3

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

1:43.2

the most famous unsolved cold case of the modern era.

1:46.5

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

1:50.8

known cold cases on the trail went cold.

1:53.4

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

1:56.8

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

2:01.8

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

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