The Trail Went Cold - Episode 85 - Mimi Boomhower

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

August 18, 1949. Los Angeles, California. After finishing a phone call with a friend, 48-year old widowed socialite Mimi Boomhower is not heard from for days. When police eventually check Mimi’s house, they discover that her lights are still on, an uneaten salad is sitting on the table, and her car is still parked in the garage. Mimi herself has vanished without explanation and her purse is soon found inside a phone booth containing a message that it was found on a beach. It would also turn out that Mimi was suffering from financial problems at this time and had told her business manager she was planning to meet a gentleman on the evening she went missing. Did Mimi elope and run off voluntarily, or was she the victim of foul play? Could her disappearance be connected to the infamous “Black Dahlia” murder from two years earlier? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles a baffling missing persons cases which would become known as “The Disappearance of the Merry Widow”. Thanks to Warby Parker for supporting “The Trail Went Cold”. Visit http://www.warbyparker.com/cold to order your own FREE Home Try-On Kit with free shipping! Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/mimi-boomhower “Black Dahlia Avenger: One of the Most Notorious Murders of the Twentieth Century… Solved!” by Steve Hodel “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Click here to listen to the podcast on Stitcher. Click here to subscribe to the podcast on Google Play Music. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:37.0	August 18th.
0:39.0	1949. Los Angeles, California.
0:44.0	48-year-old widow's socialite Mimi Boomhauer finishes a phone call to one of her friends, but
0:49.9	is not heard from for the next few days. When police check Mimi's house, they discover that
0:55.2	our lights are still on, an uneaten salad is sitting on the table, and her car is still parked
1:00.3	in the garage, but she has vanished without explanation. Her purse is soon found inside a
1:05.6	phone booth containing an anonymous message that was found on a beach. Even though Mimi was suffering
1:11.6	for financial problems and had told her business manager she was planning to meet a man on the evening she went missing, no more of her suspects are uncovered for her disappearance.
1:22.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
1:34.0	uh, for the uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
1:45.0	uh, and uh, and uh,
1:46.0	uh,
1:45.0	uh, uh,
1:48.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail when cold.
2:05.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and we've got ourselves an old missing person's case to cover today.
2:10.0	The 1949 disappearance, a Mimi Boomhauer.
2:15.2	And I'm just going to say this up front.
2:17.2	Yes, the reason this case caught my attention in the first place is because of her last
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