The Trail Went Cold - Episode 78 - Rena Paquette

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

February 3, 1964. Manchester, New Hampshire. The burned body of 54-year old Rena Paquette is discovered inside a pigsty on her family’s farm. Even though there are no containers for flammable substances at the scene, investigators believe that Rena set herself on fire and rule her death to be a suicide. However, many people suspect that Rena’s death was connected to the recent murder of a local teenage girl named Pamela Mason, as Rena believed she knew the killer’s identity and shared it with the police. While Pamela’s killer is soon caught, Rena’s death remains unsolved. This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles a story with a number of twists and turns, including the involvement of the United States Supreme Court and the unexpected murder of Rena Paquette’s son. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Rena_Paquette https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Danny_Paquette “Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town” by Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie https://www.sunjournal.com/2005/12/19/mysterious-deaths-shake-family/ “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 is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	February 3rd, 1964. Manchester, New Hampshire.
0:07.2	The burned body of 54-year-old Rina Paquette is discovered in a pigsty in our family's
0:12.1	farm.
0:16.4	Even though there are no containers for flammable substances at the scene,
0:22.0	investigators believe that Rina set herself on fire to rule her death to be a suicide. However, many people suspect that
0:25.0	Rina's death was connected to the recent murder of a local teenage girl
0:28.6	named Pamela Mason as Rina believes she knew the killer's identity and had shared it with the police.
0:35.0	Over the next several decades, there would be a number of twists and turns,
0:39.0	including the murder of one of Rina's sons,
0:42.0	but her death officially remains unsolved.
0:45.1	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:53.0	Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
0:55.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:04.0	uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:27.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I'm going to be chronicling a very unusual cold case, the 1964 death of Rina Poquette.
1:36.7	As you well know, this podcast loves to explore cases from unsolved mysteries,
1:41.6	but this is going to be a bit different from the norm.
1:44.4	While Rina's death did get featured on the show,
1:47.4	the prime focus of the segment was the 1985 murderer of Rina's son,
1:51.6	Danny Puckett. Danny's murder was eventually solved many years later, but after
1:56.9	recently rewatching this segment, I started wondering, whatever happened with Rina's case? Well it it turns out the tragic saga of the Paquette family is a much deeper rabbit hole than I thought.
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