The Trail Went Cold – Minisode 23 – Alan Jeal

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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February 25, 2014. Perranporth, England. The nude body of an unidentified male is discovered after washing up on Perranporth Beach. The victim has a sock stuffed in his mouth, which has been tied in place by headphones. He is soon identified as Alan Jeal, a 64-year old loner from the town of Wadebridge. Investigators use […]

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0:00.0	This episode of The Trail Went Cold is brought to you by Casper, an online retailer of premium mattresses for a fraction of the price, because everyone deserves a great night's sleep.
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0:26.0	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:29.0	February 25th, 2014.
0:34.0	Paranport, England.
0:37.0	The nude body of an unidentified male is discovered after washing up on Paranport Beach.
0:42.0	The victim has a sock stuffed in his mouth, which has been tied in place by headphones.
0:48.0	He is soon identified as 64-year-old Alan Geel, who hails from the town of Wadebridge.
0:54.0	Investigators use CCTV footage to track Alan's movements on the night before he was found, but the footage opens up several perplexing questions,
1:03.0	leading to debate about whether Alan committed suicide or was a victim of foul play.
1:09.0	After that, The Trail went cold.
1:24.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the latest mini-sode of The Trail went cold.
1:38.0	I'm your host Robin Warder, and today I will be venturing back to the United Kingdom to cover a fairly recent, but incredibly bizarre mystery.
1:47.0	The unexplained 2014 death, a Val and Geel.
1:51.0	And this one is actually a request from a listener I met at CrimeCon named Ellie, who traveled all the way from the UK to attend the event.
1:59.0	Ellie is a huge fan of this podcast, and we spent quite a bit of time chatting about true crime over the weekend.
2:05.0	She requested I cover this case from her homeland, and since she was such a delight to talk to, I couldn't say no, so thanks for the suggestion Ellie.
2:13.0	Incidentally, Ellie has also been a guest co-host on a couple of episodes of the podcast Mysterious Circumstances, hosted by Justin Rimmel, which I highly recommend you check out.
2:24.0	Anyway, the case on this particular mini-sode was previously covered in an article I wrote for listfirst.com titled Ten Unsolved Mysteries with Creepy Surveillance Footage, which was published in August of 2015.
2:37.0	It involves the apparent drowning of a 64-year-old loner named Alan Geel, and on the surface, it might seem like an obvious suicide, but there are just so many strange things about his death which don't add up.
2:49.0	The big wild card in this story is some close circuit television footage, which tracked Alan's movements on the night before his body was found.
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