The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 24 - The Truth Fellowship

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

July 13, 2007. Nannup, Australia. 27-year old Chantelle McDougall lives with her six-year old daughter, Leela, Leela’s 45-year old father, Simon Kadwell, and their 40-year old friend, Tony Popic. Chantelle tells her parents that they are all taking a trip to Brazil together, but the group never returns and no paper trail can be found to suggest they left the country. It turns out that Simon Kadwell has been living under a stolen identity for years and is the leader of a doomsday cult called The Truth Fellowship. Did Simon convince his family to disappear with him in order to prepare for an impending apocalypse… or could something far more sinister have happened? This week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles the story of a bizarre cult and four people who seemingly vanished into thin air. Additional Reading: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/baffling-mystery-of-a-cult-and-a-wa-family-who-vanished-10-years-ago/news-story/a941ec7b534905e59c7ec6f6b2997e36 http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/fate-of-australian-doomsday-internet-cult-family-from-nannup-western-australia-remains-mystery/news-story/838f1baa6a6d069e3033df8b57ce88ee http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-13/police-say-new-lead-on-disappearance-of-family/4884546 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	July 13th, 2007, NANAP, Australia.
0:07.0	27-year-old Chantel McDougal tells her family that she is planning to travel to Brazil with her six-year-old daughter
0:14.0	Lila, his father Simon Cadwell, and their friend Tony Popich. The group never returns and most of their
0:21.9	possessions are left behind. It turns out that Simon Cadwell
0:26.0	is the leader of a doomsday cult called The Truth Fellowship, but has been living under a stolen identity
0:31.4	for years. It is theorized that the four of them
0:34.7	disappeared to prepare for the impending apocalypse, but there has been no trace of
0:39.3	Chantel, Lila, Simon, or Tony, for an entire decade.
0:44.6	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh,
0:53.0	uh, and uh, and uh,
0:55.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:57.0	uh,
0:58.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest minisode of the Trail went cold.
1:12.1	I'm your host Robin Warder and this week we are
1:15.4	venturing back down under to Australia to cover a bizarre missing persons
1:19.4	case involving four people. Our podcast has a sizable fan base in Australia and this particular case was a request from an Australian listener named Chareen, so thank you,
1:30.0	Sharon. I was already a bit familiar with this story because I featured it in an article I wrote for
1:35.0	listfirst.com titled 10 Dark Mysteries involving Strange Cults, which was originally
1:40.3	published in March of 2015. This is actually the first mystery I've
1:44.8	covered on this podcast involving a cult. It involves a woman named
1:48.8	Chantel McDougal who vanished without explanation alongside her daughter Lila,
1:53.4	Lila's father, Simon Cadwell,
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