The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 9 - Russell Evans

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

June 4, 1989. Spokane, Washington. 13-year old Russell Evans heads home after spending the evening with friends, but is soon found seriously injured in the middle of the road. Russell eventually succumbs to his injuries and the official ruling by police is that he was the victim of a random hit-and-run accident. However, the nature of Russell’s injuries and evidence from the scene do not support a hit-and-run scenario. Russell’s parents come to believe he was attacked and murdered by multiple individuals and that one of his friends is withholding the truth about what happened. “The Trail Went Cold” concludes 2016 with a very important minisode which was personally requested by one of the victim’s relatives. Additional Reading: http://unsolved.com/archives/russell-evans http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/mar/01/new-witnesses-come-forward-in-teens-death-parents/ The Idaho Spokesman-Review (April 20, 1990) The Idaho Spokesman-Review (Feb. 27, 1996) 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	June 4th, 1989. Spokane, Washington.
0:06.0	After spending the evening with friends,
0:08.0	13-year-old Russell Evans heads home sometime after midnight.
0:12.0	He is soon found seriously injured in the middle of the
0:14.4	road and dies in the hospital hours later. The official ruling by police is that Russell was
0:20.4	the victim of a random hit-and-run accident, but his parents do not feel the evidence supports this.
0:26.0	They believe their son was attacked and murdered, and that one of Russell's friends might be concealing the truth.
0:32.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
0:44.0	uh,
0:45.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh... uh... uh... uh... Hello everyone and welcome to the latest minisode of the trail went cold.
1:01.5	I'm your host Robin Warder and we are going to be closing off
1:04.3	2016 in a very special fashion. Today I will be featuring a case which was
1:10.0	profiled on unsolved mysteries nearly 26 years ago, the suspicious 1989 death of 13-year-old
1:16.8	Russell Evans.
1:18.4	I was recently contacted by a listener named Rebecca who happens to be related to Russell and got in touch with me
1:24.4	through the Unsalled Mysteries Message Board at the sitcoms online forum.
1:28.9	Rebecca's mother was Russell's cousin but Rebecca never knew Russell personally since she was not born until
1:34.4	after his death, but she would still like to uncover the truth about what happened to him.
1:39.5	In recent months, interest in this case has been rejuvenated a bit because of a disturbing anonymous
1:44.3	posting which showed up on Craigslist but I'll talk about that in a little bit.
1:48.3	Rebecca feels that this is an ideal time to get the case back into the spotlight again, especially if there's
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