The Trail Went Cold - Episode 88 - The Salomon Family

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

October 12, 1982. Los Angeles, California. 35-year old Sol Salomon, his 39-year old wife Elaine, his 15-year old stepdaughter Michelle, and their 9-year old son Mitchell all vanish without explanation from their home. Evidence suggests they were victims of foul play and pieces of their identification are found scattered alongside a freeway. The investigation leads to Harvey Rader, a business acquaintance of Sol’s who is accused of killing the entire family and burying their bodies in the desert, and is also considered a potential suspect in the unsolved disappearance of a California couple named Peter and Joan Davis. Rader is eventually charged with murdering the Salomons, but after two mistrials, he is acquitted at his third trial in 1992. Did Harvey Rader get away with the murders of the Salomon family, or was someone else responsible? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles the harrowing unsolved disappearance of an entire family who have still never been found. Additional Reading: http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/salomon-unsolved-murder/ http://charleyproject.org/case/sol-salomon http://charleyproject.org/case/elaine-salomon http://charleyproject.org/case/michelle-houchman http://charleyproject.org/case/mitchel-salomon http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/salomon-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 is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	October 12th
0:02.0	1982
0:04.0	Los Angeles, California
0:07.0	35 year old Saul Solomon
0:09.0	is 39 year old wife Elaine
0:11.0	and their two children,
0:12.0	15 yearold Michelle, vanished without explanation
0:16.8	from their home.
0:18.8	Evidence suggests that foul play occurred, the pieces of identification belonging to the family are soon found scattered alongside a freeway.
0:26.0	The investigation eventually leads to Harvey Rader, a business acquaintance of Saul's who allegedly killed the entire family and buried their bodies in the desert.
0:35.2	Rader is charged with the murders, but after two mist trials, he is acquitted at his third trial in
0:40.4	1992, and the Solomon family is never found. After that the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:53.0	And, uh, and uh, and, uh,
0:55.0	and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh,
1:04.0	uh,
1:05.0	there are uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:10.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:27.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we will be covering a missing person's case involving an entire family, the 1982 disappearance of Saul,
1:36.2	Elaine, Michelle, and Mitchell Salomon.
1:39.6	This case was recently suggested to me by a listener named Aaron as an extensive article about the story was published in Los Angeles magazine at the beginning of July.
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