The Trail Went Cold - Episode 8 - The El Dorado Jane Doe

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

July 10, 1991. El Dorado, Arkansas. A young blonde woman known to her friends as “Mercedes” is shot to death by her estranged ex-boyfriend at a seedy motel. It turns out Mercedes has been living under a stolen identity and no one in her life – not even the man who murdered her – knows who she really is. An extensive check into the woman’s background turns up many pieces of a puzzle which does not fit together and investigators are unable to uncover her true identity. However, it is possible she might be connected to some other unsolved cold cases… including one we have previously featured on this very podcast! Join me for a new episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, as I share the story of the mysterious unidentified woman known as “El Dorado Jane Doe”. Please check out the Doe Network profile page for El Dorado Jane Doe, which contains her vital statistics, numerous photographs, and contact info for the proper authorities should you happen to recognize her: http://doenetwork.org/cases/81ufar.html Additional Reading: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eldorado-jane-doe_us_56e6d679e4b0b25c918276a3 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	July 10th, 1991.
0:02.8	A young woman is shot to death by her ex-boyfriend in a motel room in El Dorado, Arkansas.
0:08.9	The woman is known to her friends as Mercedes, but has been living under a stolen identity.
0:14.0	Even when her killer is apprehended, he does not provide any answers about who she really is.
0:20.0	When an extensive check into her background fails to uncover her true identity, she becomes known as
0:25.9	Eldorado Jane Doe.
0:28.3	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to episode number 8 of the trail went cold.
1:11.0	I am your host Robin Warder and this episode is going to be our very
1:15.1	first foray into a very interesting subject for true crime and mystery buffs,
1:19.8	unidentified decedents. As you probably know, whenever a man or woman is found deceased and their identity cannot be established by police or the medical examiner,
1:30.0	they become known as either John Doe or Jane Doe.
1:35.0	Well, believe it or not, there are numerous decedents who never get identified.
1:40.0	For various reasons, investigators just cannot uncover who these people really are so they
1:44.5	remain known as John Doe or Jane Doe forever. It's particularly tragic when these
1:49.8	decedents have been murdered and the police can't even figure out the identity of the victim,
1:55.4	let alone who their killer is.
1:57.5	Well thankfully there is a very prominent website devoted to this subject known as the Doe Network, which is an online database
2:04.8	containing profiles for thousands of unidentified decedents. It's a non-profit
2:10.3	organization run by volunteers and is essentially known as Facebook for the dead.
2:16.3	And it has actually played a role in helping around 70, John, and Jane Doe's get their identity
2:21.4	back.
2:23.0	It's a common practice for investigators
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