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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Minisode 19 – Penny Bell

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

June 6, 1991. Greenford, England. While leaving her family’s home, 43-year old Penny Bell tells a group of builders that she is running late for an appointment. Later that morning, Penny is discovered dead inside her vehicle after being brutally stabbed 50 times. Three days before her death, Penny had withdrawn £8,500 from her bank […]

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June 6, 1991.

0:04.4

Greenford, England.

0:07.6

Well leaving her family's home, 43-year-old Penny Bell tells a group of builders that she

0:12.7

is running late for an appointment.

0:15.4

Later that morning, Penny has discovered dead inside her vehicle at a car park after

0:20.6

being stabbed 50 times.

0:23.7

Three days before her death, Penny had withdrawn 8,500 pounds from her bank account.

0:29.6

But the money is never found, and no one knows the reasons for Penny's withdrawal, or

0:34.4

her mysterious appointment with her unknown killer.

0:38.0

After that, the trail went cold.

0:59.6

Hello everyone, and welcome to the latest mini-sode of the trail went cold.

1:07.5

I'm your host Robin Warder, and I am pleased to say that we will be traveling across the

1:11.7

Atlantic to cover a mystery from the United Kingdom, the 1991 murder of Penny Bell.

1:18.8

I know that I have a lot of devoted listeners in the UK, and I've only covered one case

1:23.4

from your part of the world thus far, the disappearance of Reenie and Andrew McCray.

1:28.9

So I thought it was about time I paid you fine folks a visit again, and I selected a pretty

1:33.8

baffling, unsolved murder.

1:36.4

This case seems to be pretty infamous in England, though I'm not sure how well known it is in

1:40.9

North America.

1:42.5

I'm always fascinated by mysteries where a victim is murdered after traveling to a location

1:47.4

they had no real reason to be at.

1:50.4

Here's Penny Bell, a loving wife and mother who doesn't seem to have any dark secrets,

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