June 28th, 1981, Tilden Township, Michigan.

After a night of drinking at a local club, 48-year-old Helen Diamond and her husband Roy get into an argument in the parking lot. Roy drives home without his wife and Helen decides to walk from the club to her son's house in order to spend the night. However, Helen never arrives and vanishes without a trace. The case would be

hampered by a faulty police investigation, contradictory stories from

eyewitnesses, and the spread of misinformation. But in spite of her

family's best efforts to obtain answers, Helen Diamond is never found. After

that, the trail went cold. Hello everyone and welcome to the latest minisode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and we're going to be featuring a very special story this week.

The 1981 Disapp of Helen Diamond.

This case is actually a request from a listener named Crystal who is friends with

one of Helen's relatives and I have actually consulted with the victim's family to put this

mini-sewed together.

Two of Helen's granddaughters, Holly Lettson and April Lower, were just toddlers at the time she

disappeared, but they've worked tirelessly throughout the last decade to keep her case in the spotlight.

They have combed throughout the original police reports and newspaper articles and posted them on their Facebook page,

the disappearance of Helen Diamond, which is the source of most of the information

you'll hear on this podcast. Just this past summer, Helen's story caught the attention of

Dateline who featured it in the Cold Case Spotlight section of their website,

and it has recently gotten attention in other media outlets,

such as the Upper Peninsula's ABC10 News Program.

This is a very frustrating case, as it's obvious the police did a poor job at investigating Helen's disappearance by spreading inaccurate information and not looking into promising leads.

Because of the constant misinformation, it's tough to discern what might have actually happened on the night Helen went missing.

But I'm going to attempt to analyze this mystery as best I can on this minisode and at the very least give it some much needed

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