The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 4 - Donna Lass

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

September 6, 1970. South Lake Tahoe, California. 25-year old nurse Donna Lass is nearing the end of her shift at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel-Casino when she vanishes without explanation. Her landlord and boss soon receive phone calls from an unidentified man, who claims that Donna will be absent for awhile because of a family emergency. However, this claim turns out to be false and Donna is never seen again. Months later, the San Francisco Chronicle receives a cryptic postcard which is allegedly sent by the infamous Zodiac killer, who implies that Donna Lass was one of his victims. Was the Zodiac responsible for Donna’s disappearance or was the postcard nothing more than a giant red herring? We attempt to answer that question in this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/donna-ann-lass https://lasvegassun.com/news/2000/nov/15/was-tahoe-disappearance-linked-to-zodiac-killer/ http://www.zodiacciphers.com/lake-tahoe-disappearance.html http://www.zodiacciphers.com/zodiac-news/category/donna-lass “Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed” by Robert Graysmith 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	September 6th, 1970. South Lake Tahoe, California.
0:07.0	25 year old nurse Donna Lass is nearing the end of her shift at the Sahara Tahoe Hotel Casino when she vanishes without explanation.
0:15.2	Donna's car is found parked outside her apartment complex and her landlord and
0:20.4	boss soon receive phone calls from an unidentified man who claims that Donna will landlord and turns out to be false and Donna is never seen again.
0:33.8	Months later, a reporter receives a postcard from the infamous Zodiac
0:37.7	killer who implies that Donna Lass was one of his victims.
0:42.2	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah.
0:53.0	Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest minisode of the trail went cold.
1:10.4	I'm your host Robin Warder and we are continuing our Halloween theme cases for October.
1:17.0	For the past few years it's become an annual tradition for me to publish creepy Halloween themed articles
1:22.2	at crack.com so for the entire month all of the
1:25.8	trail went colds episodes and minisodes will be analyzing cases which I have covered in those articles.
1:31.6	Today's mystery was featured in my very
1:34.1	popular cracked article the six creepiest unexplained phone calls which was
1:38.9	published in October of 2014. If you're listening to this podcast, I'm sure you've heard of the Zodiac
1:45.6	killer as his identity continues to remain one of the most famous unsolved
1:50.0	mysteries of all time. Well today I'm going to be looking at a missing
1:54.3	person's case which on its own might not have garnered a lot of attention but it's
1:59.2	attained some notoriety because of the possibility that the zodiac killer was involved.
2:05.0	But before we get started, just a brief reminder that the trail went cold is now a weekly
2:09.2	podcast which alternates between our regular full-length episodes and 10 to 15 minute minisodes like this one,
2:16.0	which covers smaller scale cold cases which don't have as much material to explore.
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