The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 11 - Jonelle Matthews

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

December 20, 1984. Greeley, Colorado. After singing in a choir at a Christmas performance, 12-year old Jonelle Matthews is dropped off at her family’s house by a friend. When Jonelle’s father returns home later that evening, he is horrified to discover that Jonelle is missing and the evidence suggests she was abducted by an intruder. In spite of an extensive search, Jonelle is never found and investigators fail to uncover any potential suspects in her disappearance. Our newest minisode of “The Trail Went Cold” examines a baffling missing children’s case, as well as its possible connection to an unidentified Jane Doe who was killed in Huntington Beach, California in 1990. Click here to see Jonelle Matthews’ profile page at the Charley Project, and here to see the profile page for the Huntington Beach Jane Doe at the Doe Network. http://blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2012/11/02/greeley-kidnapped-vanished-declared-dead/5758/ http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/local/three-decades-after-she-disappeared-from-her-greeley-home-memories-of-jonelle-matthews-remain/ 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	December 20th, 1984, Greeley, Colorado.
0:06.5	After singing in a choir at a Christmas performance, 12-year-old Jonel Matthews is dropped off at her family's
0:12.4	house by a friend.
0:14.2	When Janelle's father returns home later that evening, he is horrified to discover that
0:18.7	Jonel is missing and the evidence suggests she was abducted by an intruder.
0:24.0	In spite of an extensive search,
0:26.0	Jonelle has never found and investigators fail to uncover any potential suspects in her disappearance.
0:32.0	After that, the trail. potential suspects in her disappearance.
0:32.8	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest minisode of the trail went cold.
1:00.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I will be covering a case which was requested by a listener named Steve W
1:07.6	who is a poster at the Unsolved Mysteries Message Board at the Sitcoms Online Forum
1:12.3	and has been a supporter of this podcast from day one.
1:16.4	He's actually been requesting that I cover this case since the very beginning and even
1:20.6	suggested I cover it back in December.
1:23.0	It is the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl named Joan L Matthews,
1:27.0	which took place only a few days before Christmas in 1984.
1:31.0	Well, the holiday season has since passed, but I still think this mystery deserves inclusion on this podcast
1:37.2	It's one of those very frustrating cold cases in which it's easy to construct a scenario about what happened, but the only thing we don't know is the identity of the person responsible.
1:47.0	About a year ago, an online sluice suggested Jonel as a potential match to an unidentified Jane Doe.
1:54.1	And since that case is a pretty compelling unsolved mystery
1:56.8	in its own right, I'm going to discuss both of them
2:00.0	on this minisode.
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