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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Summary

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 claims it was coerced and since Marlena’s body cannot be found and there is no other evidence to implicate Pam, she is not indicted for her daughter’s death. Over the next several years, there would be a number of twists and turns, including some seemingly credible eyewitness sightings to suggest Marlena is still alive, and Pam would also face legal trouble for another violent crime involving her children. Was Pam responsible for her daughter’s disappearance, or was Marlena actually abducted? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we examine a very controversial and divisive missing children’s case which has yet to find a resolution. Additional Reading: http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Marlena_Childress http://charleyproject.org/case/marlena-danyele-childress https://www.nwtntoday.com/2012/04/12/cold-case-investigation-to-focus-on-disappearance/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. We would like to thank our sponsor, Winc, for supporting this week’s episode. To receive a $20 credit and free shipping on 4 bottles of wine on your first order, go to trywinc.com/cold. 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	This episode of The Trail When Cold is brought to you by our sponsor, Wink, whom we would like to thank for being such a great supporter of our show.
0:07.0	Wink is offering our audience members who are over 21 and live in the US, a $20 credit plus free shipping on their first order of four bottles of
0:15.8	wine as a new member of Wink. So please visit triwink.com.com.
0:20.3	That's TRY W-I-N-C-G-G-G-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-E-N-C-O-T-O-E-N-C-T-O-O-T-E-T-O-T-O-O-O-T-O-T-O-O-O-O-T-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O 19th, 1987. Union City, Tennessee.
0:36.7	Four-year-old Marlene at Childress, vanishes from her front yard after her mother, Pamela Bailey, claims she saw a red car driving away from their house.
0:46.0	Two months later, Pam claimed she accidentally killed Marlina and tossed her body into a river.
0:52.0	Pam soon recants her confession and claims it was coerced,
0:56.1	and with no other evidence to implicate her,
0:58.5	she is not indicted for her daughter's disappearance.
1:01.7	Over the next several years, there would be a number of twists and turns,
1:05.5	including eye witness sightings to suggest Marlina was still alive and Pamela Bailey's involvement in
1:11.1	another horrific crime, but Marlina is never found. After that,
1:17.1	the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
1:23.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, and. Oh, uh, uh,
1:34.0	uh, and uh,
1:35.0	and uh, uh, uh,
1:38.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:57.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I'll be chronicling a pretty controversial
2:02.3	missing children's case, the 1987 disappearance
2:05.7	of four-year-old Marlina Childress.
2:08.3	Yes, this is a case which was featured on Unsaw Mysteries, but it's pretty unique in that the show only aired the segment once, and never did so again, apparently at the request of the family.
2:19.0	I am pretty certain that I saw this segment on TV when it originally aired in September of 1990,
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