The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 21 - Maoma Ridings

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

August 29, 1943. Indianapolis, Indiana. 33-year old Maoma Ridings is serving as a corporal in the Women’s Army Corps at Camp Atterbury and checks into a room at the Claypool Hotel. Later that evening, Corporal Ridings is found murdered on her bed. She has been beaten and slashed with a whiskey bottle and is nude from the waist down. Less than two hours earlier, a bellboy had seen a woman dressed in black inside Ridings’ room. Who was this mysterious woman in black and was she responsible for Ridings’ murder? This week, “The Trail Went Cold” tackles an unsolved World War II-era murder of a servicewoman who once worked as a physical therapist for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Additional Reading: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2013/10/01/indiana-unsolved-the-1943-murder-of-cpl-maoma-ridings-at-the-upscale-claypool-hotel-remains-a-mystery/2901193/ “The Mammoth Book of Killers at Large” by Nigel Clawthorne A huge thank you to Audible for supporting our podcast. To thank you for your support, we’d like to invite you to get a free audiobook with a free 30 day trial at audible.com/cold. 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	We would like to provide a special thanks to Audible for supporting the trail went cold and we would both like to thank you, the listeners, for being such great supporters of this show.
0:10.0	So to earn yourself a free audio book with a 30-day free trial, please visit audible.com.
0:17.0	That's audible.com.
0:20.0	Thank you.
0:27.0	August 29th, 1943. Indianapolis, Indiana.
0:31.0	33-year-old Maumah Ridings, a corporal in the Women's Army Corps, checks into a room at the
0:37.2	Claypool Hotel. Later that evening, Corporal Ridings has found murdered on her bed after having been beaten and slashed by a
0:46.2	whiskey bottle.
0:48.2	Less than two hours earlier, a bell boy had seen a woman dressed in black inside Rydings' room, but the identity of this woman
0:56.5	and the circumstances behind Rydings' murder remain unknown. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:14.0	uh,
1:15.0	and uh, uh, uh,
1:18.0	uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... Hello everyone and welcome to a special Crime Con themed minisode of the Trail
1:30.4	went cold. I'm your host Robin Warder and today I will be time traveling
1:35.2	back to World War II to tackle a pretty baffling unsolved crime, the
1:40.6	1943 murder of Corporal Maoma Riotings.
1:45.0	And there's a good reason I chose this particular case.
1:48.0	This past weekend, I traveled to Indianapolis to appear at the very first CrimeCon in which I represented the trail
1:54.7	went cold on Podcast Row. I recorded this minisode before I left on my trip, but as a
2:00.9	special surprise for all my listeners who joined me at a CrimeCon hosted private party,
2:06.0	I decided to deliver an exclusive live reading of the Minnesot to them before it was officially released. and I sincerely hope I didn't make an
2:14.8	ass out of myself.
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