The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 10 - Pamela Butler

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

February 12, 2009. Washington, D.C.. 47-year old Pamela Butler phones her mother to say that she is planning to take her out on Valentine’s Day. Pam never shows up and after not hearing from her for several days, her family checks her house and discovers that she has vanished without explanation. Curiously, even though her home was covered with surveillance cameras, none of the footage shows Pam leaving during the time period she went missing, but her boyfriend can be seen entering and exiting the house on multiple occasions. In spite of this, there is no evidence of foul play or any trace of Pamela Butler. This week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles a bizarre mystery about a woman who somehow managed to disappear from a locked home which had 24-hour surveillance. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/pamela-j-butler http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/24/AR2009112404264.html https://crimewatchdaily.com/2016/04/15/cold-case-d-c-government-computer-specialist-still-missing/ Be sure to take part in our Facebook poll to help decide which case we will cover on our one-year anniversary show! 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	February 12th, 2009, Washington, D.C.
0:07.0	46-year-old Pamela Butler arrives at her house, which is monitored by surveillance cameras. After not hearing from her for five days,
0:15.0	Pam's family visits her home
0:17.0	and discovers that she has vanished without explanation.
0:20.0	Confusingly, even though the surveillance cameras show Pam entering her house, no footage
0:26.3	exists of her leaving. However, Pam's boyfriend is shown entering and exiting the home multiple
0:32.4	times, yet there is no evidence to introduce. is shown entering and exiting the home multiple times.
0:33.0	Yet there is no evidence to indicate what actually happened to her.
0:37.0	After that, the trail went cold. world. Hello everyone and welcome to the trail went cold. I'm your host Robin Mortar and for
1:06.1	our first minisode of 2017 I've selected a pretty strange mystery. The 2009 disappearance of Pamela Butler, which is a unique variation of a locked
1:17.0	room mystery. A locked room mystery is when someone is murdered under seemingly impossible
1:22.2	circumstances, such as when a body is discovered in a room which was locked from the inside.
1:28.0	Well, this particular case could almost be described as a locked room disappearance, as a woman somehow vanished without a trace inside her locked home
1:36.0	even though the house was monitored by surveillance cameras and none of the
1:40.2	existing footage shows her leaving. I previously featured this case in an article I wrote for listverse.com titled
1:47.2	10 Unsolved Mysteries with Creepy Surveillance Footage, which was originally published in August of 2015. I also got a refresher on this case
1:56.0	when I saw it at the official Unsolved Mysteries website. Even though this story was never
2:01.1	featured on Unsolved Mysteries, the site allows people to submit their own personal mysteries which can subsequently be turned into YouTube videos.
2:09.0	Pamela Butler's brother Derek recorded a webcam video in which he made a public plea for
2:14.4	information and it was posted on the website. Derek has often stated that he
2:19.3	doesn't think his sister's case has gotten the proper media attention it deserves because she is black.
2:25.1	So I'm quite happy to give her story some exposure on this podcast.
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