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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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 […]

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0:00.0	February 3rd, 1964.
0:04.5	Manchester, New Hampshire.
0:07.2	The burned body of 54-year-old Reena Paquet is discovered in a pigstine or family's
0:12.2	farm.
0:13.7	Even though there are no containers for flammable substances at the scene, investigators
0:17.8	believe that Reena set herself on fire to rule her death to be a suicide.
0:22.7	However, many people suspect that Reena's death was connected to the recent murder of
0:27.4	a local teenage girl named Pamela Mason, as Reena believes she knew the killer's identity
0:33.0	and had shared it with the police.
0:35.3	Over the next several decades, there would be a number of twists and turns, including
0:39.8	the murder of one of Reena's sons, but her death officially remains unsolved.
0:45.3	After that, the trail went cold.
0:57.4	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail went cold.
1:27.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I'm going to be chronicling a very unusual cold
1:32.4	case, the 1964 death of Reena Paquet.
1:36.9	As you well know, this podcast loves to explore cases from unsolved mysteries, but this is
1:42.2	going to be a bit different from the norm.
1:44.9	While Reena's death did get featured on the show, the prime focus of the segment was the
1:49.5	1985 murder of Reena's son, Danny Paquet.
1:53.6	Danny's murder was eventually solved many years later, but after recently rewatching
1:58.0	the segment, I started wondering, whatever happened with Reena's case.
2:02.4	Well, it turns out the tragic saga of the Paquet family is a much deeper rabbit hole than
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