The Trail Went Cold – Episode 90 – Marlena Childress

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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April 16, 1987. Union City, Tennessee. Four-year old Marlena Childress vanishes from her front yard after her mother, Pamela Bailey, claims she saw a red car driving away from their house. Two months later, Pam confesses that she accidentally killed Marlena and tossed her body into the Obion River. Pam soon recants her confession and […]

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0:00.0	This episode of The Trail in Cold is brought to you by our sponsor, Wink, whom we would
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0:26.6	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:29.2	April 16th, 1987.
0:33.5	Union City, Tennessee.
0:36.6	Four-year-old Marlena Childress vanishes from her front yard after her mother, Pamela
0:41.8	Bailey, claims she saw a red car driving away from their house.
0:46.2	Two months later, Pam claims she accidentally killed Marlena and tossed her body into
0:51.0	a river.
0:52.4	Pam soon recants her confession and claims it was coerced, and with no other evidence
0:57.2	to implicate her, she is not indicted for her daughter's disappearance.
1:01.8	Over the next several years, there would be a number of twists and turns, including eye-wet
1:06.4	deciding to suggest Marlena was still alive and Pamela Bailey's involvement in another
1:11.6	horrific crime, but Marlena is never found.
1:16.1	After that, the trail went cold.
1:27.2	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail when
1:57.1	we walk back to the historical desert and the biggest dangerous point of view of Palo
2:16.7	apparently at the request of the family.
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