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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 98 - Kanika Powell & Sean Nicholas Green

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

August 28, 2008. Laurel, Maryland. While returning to her apartment after running errands, 28-year old Army veteran and government employee Kanika Powell is shot to death inside the building’s hallway. In the preceding days, Kanika claimed that separate men impersonating an FBI agent and a deliveryman had knocked on her apartment door, but she refused to let them inside. Two-and-half-months later, Sean Nicholas Green, a 31-year old government employee living in Oxon Hill 30 miles away, is shot to death by a masked gunman while parked in traffic. Could the two crimes be connected? Were Kanika and Sean both murdered because they happened to work government jobs requiring top secret clearance? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” examines a pair of baffling, seemingly motiveless unsolved murders which have left investigators stumped for the past decade. Additional Reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090304010_2.html?noredirect=on https://truecrimedaily.com/2015/10/09/unsolved-national-security-worker-gunned-down-amid-mysterious-circumstances/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/22/AR2008112202015.html “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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August 28th, 2008.

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Laurel, Maryland.

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While returning to her apartment after running errands, 28-year-old government employee

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Kenika Powell is shot to death inside the building's hallway.

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In the preceding days, Kenika claimed that separate men impersonating an FBI agent and a

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delivery man had knocked on her apartment door, but she refused to let them inside.

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Two and a half months later, Sean Nicholas Green, a 31-year-old government employee from the same county,

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is shot to death by a mass gunman while parked in traffic.

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Due to the top secret nature of their jobs, there is speculation that both murders might be

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connected, but the identities of the killers and the motive for these crimes remain unknown.

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After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,

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uh, and uh, and uh, and uh,

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uh, uh uh uh...

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uh... uh... Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.

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I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering two cold cases that some people believe might be connected.

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The 2008 murders of Kneka Powell and Sean Nicholas Green.

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