The Trail Went Cold - Episode 99 - Mona Blades

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

May 31, 1975. Hamilton, New Zealand. 18-year old Mona Blades leaves to hitchhike hundreds of kilometres in order to attend her nephew’s birthday in Hastings, but never arrives. After Mona is reported missing, witnesses would recall seeing her inside an orange Datsun station wagon with an unidentified man. Over the years, investigators examine a number of different suspects, including a man who committed suicide only weeks after Mona went missing, a former traffic officer, and a biker gang. Who was actually responsible for Mona Blades’ disappearance? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” covers our first unsolved mystery from New Zealand, which happens to be one of the country’s famous missing persons cases. Special thanks to listener Loquin Britton for providing the opening narration for this episode. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Blades_case https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12099766 http://www.police.govt.nz/stolenwanted/coldcase/2018/mona-elizabeth-blades-1975 http://www.tonybaloney.co.nz/index.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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0:00.0	May 31st, 1975, Hamilton, New Zealand.
0:04.4	18-year-old Mona Blades leaves to hitch-high hundreds of kilometers in order to
0:09.1	attend her nephew's birthday party, but she never arrives.
0:13.0	After Mona is reported missing, witnesses would recall seeing her inside an orange
0:17.0	dots and station wagon with an unidentified man.
0:20.3	Over the years, investigators examined a number of different suspects, including a former traffic officer, a man who committed suicide only weeks after Mona went missing, and a biker gang, but no trace of Mona is ever found. After that the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
0:44.0	uh, for the uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
0:55.0	uh, and uh,
0:56.0	uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:14.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and today for the first time ever
1:18.4	our podcast is going to be traveling down under to New Zealand
1:22.0	to chronicle one of the most famous unsolved
1:24.4	cold cases in the history of that country, the 1975 disappearance of Mona Blades.
1:30.1	That voice you just heard narrated our intro is Loquin Britain, the most recent winner of her
1:35.9	Trail Went Cold listener voiceover contest and she did an awesome job so thank you very
1:40.9	much Loquin. If you would like to enter this contest and haven't already done so, I will be providing instructions at the end of this episode. Anyway, even though the Trail went cold is closing in on its three-year anniversary, we have yet to tackle
1:54.4	a mystery from New Zealand, even though we definitely have a fan base there.
1:58.8	I took the initiative to do this after recently receiving an email from a New Zealand listener named Jade
2:04.8	who suggested a number of intriguing kiwi cases to feature on the podcast
2:09.6	so I definitely think this is long overdue.
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