The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 285 - Dana Bradley

December 14, 1981. St. John’s, Newfoundland. 14-year old Dana Bradley leaves her friend’s residence to head back home, but she never arrives and eyewitnesses report seeing her hitchhiking and climbing into a vehicle driven by an unidentified man. Four days later, Dana’s body is found in a remote wooded area and she has been killed by multiple blows to the skull with a blunt instrument. Over the next four decades, investigators explore a number of different leads, included a confession from a suspect that is later recanted and an account from a witness who claims he was present when Dana’s murder took place, but these leads never pan out and all attempts to identify the killer are unsuccessful. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we return to our podcast’s home country of Canada to explore what is probably the most famous unsolved cold case from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
If you have any information about this case, please contact the Newfoundland & Labrador divisional headquarters of the RCMP at (709) 772-5400 or the Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Dana_Bradley
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/dana-bradley-s-murder-investigation-active-after-25-years-police-1.583989
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/news/no-justice-for-dana-126077/
https://www.thewesternstar.com/news/local/man-claims-he-witnessed-dana-bradley-murder-26053/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/new-dna-evidence-discovered-murder-dana-bradley-1.3601040
https://www.saltwire.com/newfoundland-labrador/news/no-evidence-found-by-group-looking-to-connect-cars-to-dana-bradley-murder-43741/
https://theindependent.ca/uncategorized/an-alternate-history-of-the-dana-bradley-murder-investigation/
https://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/some-dana-bradley-murder-suspects-cleared-with-new-dna-127053/
https://vocm.com/2021/12/14/dana-bradley-40-years-since-disappearance-and-murder/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/st-johns-cold-cases-missing-women-1.3608745
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 284 - Earlene Barksdale

July 7, 1973. Tampa, Florida. The nude body of 34-year old Earlene Barksdale is discovered in the back office of the children’s clothing store she owns and she has been raped and shot in the head in an apparent robbery. Police soon focus on a suspect named Joseph Green Brown, who was involved in a similar robbery at another location on the exact same date. After he is implicated by an accomplice, Brown is charged, convinced and sentenced to death for Earlene’s murder. However, even though Brown comes dangerously close to being executed, the case against him is fraught with problems, so his conviction is eventually overturned and he is released from prison in 1987. Even though there seems to be evidence which implicates Earlene’s spouse as a possible alternate suspect, no one else is ever charged with her murder. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a very controversial and complex murder case which has contained a number of shocking developments over the past five decades.
Additional Reading:
https://www.cltampa.com/news/who-killed-earlene-barksdale-12238174
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2001/05/31/the-story-with-an-ending-we-ll-never-know/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-10-mn-6644-story.html
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetailpre1989.aspx?caseid=36
http://www.floridacapitalcases.state.fl.us/Documents/Case_updates/Htm/042546.html
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/yes-im-angry-yes-im-bitter-im-frustrated
https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/supreme-court/1980/46925-0.html
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/785/1457/275908/
https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2012/09/30/facing-another-murder-charge/29124588007/
https://www.deseret.com/2012/9/26/20438164/man-once-on-death-row-faced-financial-problems
“Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment” by Michael Mello
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“The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 283 - Gordon Page Jr. & Kristi Krebs

May 26, 1991. Grand Rapids, Michigan. 28-year old Gordon Page Jr. is discovered to be missing from his room at the Cascade Foster Care Home, a residential treatment centre for individuals with autism. Since a man matching Gordon’s description is seen hitchhiking on a nearby interstate, it is theorized that he escaped from the home in order to travel to Florida to see his family. There are additional reported eyewitness sightings of Gordon and a baseball card collection which is believed to belong to him is found underneath an overpass in the weeks following his disappearance, but he continues to remain a missing person.
August 10, 1993. Mendocino County, California. 22-year old Kristi Krebs leaves her job at a pizza parlour, but never returns home and her abandoned car is found stuck in some mud in a remote wooded area the following day. The scene mirrors an incident from three years earlier where a car Kristi was driving caught fire in another wooded area and she suffered a psychotic trauma-related breakdown which caused her to temporarily lose her memory. Since there are multiple reports of a disoriented-looking woman matching Kristi’s description hitchhiking throughout the country, there is fear that she suffered another breakdown and completely forgot who she was, but Kristi is never found.
On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a pair of missing persons cases which were featured on “Unsolved Mysteries” and are still without a resolution three decades later.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Gordon Page Jr., please contact the Kent County Sheriff’s Office at (616) 632-6100. If you have any information on the disappearance of Kristi Krebs, please contact the Fort Bragg Police Department at (707) 961-2800.
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Additional Reading:
https://unsolved.com/gallery/gordon-page-jr/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Gordon_Page_Jr.
http://charleyproject.org/case/gordon-thomas-page-jr
http://crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com/2017/08/quick-entry-2-missing-gordon-thomas.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/366363119/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/323782011/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/323782318/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/204433069
https://unsolved.com/gallery/kristi-krebs/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Kristi_Krebs
http://charleyproject.org/case/kristi-suzanne-krebs
https://www.newspapers.com/image/191697/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/191730/
https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=53441147&itype=cmsid
https://www.advocate-news.com/2019/05/09/where-is-kristi-krebs/
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“The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 282 - Mark Himebaugh

November 25, 1991. Middle Township, New Jersey. 11-year old Mark Himebaugh leaves his residence in order to watch firefighters extinguishing a brush fire, but he never returns home. A search turns up Mark’s left shoe on a nearby beach and while eyewitnesses place Mark in the company of multiple unidentified individuals on the afternoon he went missing, he cannot be found. Over one year later, a witness tells police that a sex offender named Thomas Butcavage screened a video of himself sexually assaulting Mark before confessing to his murder, but the alleged videotape is never found and no evidence links him to Mark’s disappearance. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore one of the more disturbing missing children’s cases we’ve covered. Special thanks to listener Juile Heiland for narrating the opening of this episode.
If you have any information about this case, please contact the Middle Township Police Department at (609) 465-8700.
Additional Reading:
“Where is Mark? The Abduction of Mark Himebaugh” by Richard McHale
https://www.whereismark.com
https://wpgtalkradio.com/thanksgiving-marks-30-years-since-mark-himebaugh-disappeared-in-middle-twp-nj/
https://charleyproject.org/case/mark-joseph-himebaugh
https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/30-years-later-search-continues-for-middle-townships-mark-himebaugh/article_0a56e10c-4d3f-11ec-8f3d-eb5001524269.html
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/05/21/cbs3-mysteries-where-is-mark-himebaugh/
https://truecrimedaily.com/2021/11/19/where-is-mark-himebaugh-new-jersey-boy-vanishes-anniversary-looms-tcdpod/
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/convicted-sex-offender-person-of-interest-mark-himebaugh-thomas-butcavage-video-sex-abuse/60570/
https://people.com/crime/mark-himebaugh-cops-hope-tip-call-could-help-find-missing-boy/
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“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 281 - Byron Carr

November 12, 1988. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. After he is not heard from in over 24 hours, the body of 36-year old Byron Carr is discovered inside the bedroom of his residence. He has been strangled with a towel and stabbed with a kitchen knife and the words, “I will kill again”, are scrawled on the bedroom wall. The evidence indicates that Byron had sex with another man before he was murdered, but even though the perpetrator left his DNA behind, all attempts to match it to anyone are unsuccessful. Over the years, investigators receive a number of compelling tips, including the name of an accomplice who supposedly helped the killer cover up the crime, but the killer himself remains unidentified. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will travel back to our podcast’s home country of Canada to explore the only known unsolved homicide from Prince Edward Island.
If you have any information about this case, please contact the Charlottetown Police Service at (902) 629-4172 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Additional Reading:
https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/cold-case-warm-memories-byron-carrs-friends-family-want-his-1988-pei-murder-solved-100638596/
https://ucfiles.com/Files/1988/bcarr.php
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/byron-carr
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/byron-carr-murder-accomplice-identified-by-police-1.2355330
https://www.saltwire.com/news/local/on-the-hunt-76479/?location=nova-scotia
https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/provincial/charlottetown-police-release-sketch-of-possible-byron-carr-killer-105499/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/503004708/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/730208131/
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“The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 280 - Peter Watts

January 18, 1976. Colwyn Bay, Wales. The family of 15-year old Peter Watts returns to their residence and discovers he has left behind a note to say that he went to see a friend. Ten hours later, Peter’s unconscious body is discovered on the Euston Road underpass in London over 250 miles away and he dies after being rushed to the hospital. While Peter’s injuries are consistent with a fall from a great height, his body and clothing appear to have been washed, suggesting that he was seriously injured at another location before someone placed his body on the underpass. While an inquest jury rules that Peter’s death was murder, there are no conclusive answers about who killed him or why he made a lengthy trip to London to begin with. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a truly baffling mystery from the United Kingdom about a victim who wound up dead at a location they had no known connection to.
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Additional Reading:
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/how-mysterious-death-teenager-peter-10758183
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/london-police-car-kill-colwyn-10759848
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-35350080
https://www.itv.com/news/london/2016-01-18/the-40-year-mystery-of-the-murder-of-15-year-old-peter-watts
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/i-dont-think-ill-ever-10755834
https://www.newspapers.com/image/805476984/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/805446833/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/805445872/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/303725746/
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“The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 279 - Colonel Philip Shue

April 16, 2003. Kendall County, Texas. 54-year old Colonel Philip Shue, who works as a staff psychiatrist for the United States Air Force, leaves his residence to drive to work. Two-and-a-half hours later, Colonel Shue’s car is seen driving erratically down the interstate before it crashes into some trees and Shue is found dead in the driver’s seat. Even though his death is ruled to be a staged suicide, there are a number of suspicious discrepancies, as duct tape is wrapped around Shue’s wrists and feet, a large gash is carved into his chest, and both of his nipples have been removed. There is suspicion that Shue’s ex-wife had him tortured and killed in order to cash in on some life insurance policies, but even though a judge later makes a public ruling at a civil trial that Shue was the victim of a homicide, his official cause of death is never changed. Did Colonel Shue intentionally crash his car and take his own life, or did was killed while attempting to escape from someone who did him harm? We’re going to explore both sides of this perplexing case on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, which chronicles one of the most bizarre unexplained deaths you’ll ever hear about.
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Additional Reading:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-curious-case-of-col-shue-26-03-2009/
https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BCME_autopsy.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/psychological_autopsy.pdf
“From Crime Scene to Courtroom: Examining the Mysteries” by Dr. Cyril Wecht & Dawna Kaufmann
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/colonel-philip-shue_b_1424756
https://setexasrecord.com/stories/510609568-judge-clears-usaa-in-colonel-s-death
https://www.newspapers.com/image/410551210/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/410551622/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/356794566/
“The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content.
“The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel &  Spa in London on June 11-12, 2022. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo  code, “COLD22”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk.
“The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 278 - Alexis Patterson

May 3, 2002. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Seven-year old Alexis Patterson is walked to school by her stepfather, who claims that he last sees her crossing the street and heading in the direction of the school playground. Even though numerous students report seeing Alexis crying on the playground that day, she never attends any of her classes and is eventually reported missing. Over the years, investigators explore a number of potential leads and direct some suspicion towards Alexis’ family, but there are no conclusive answers about what happened to her. Was Alexis Patterson the victim of a stranger abduction or do the real answers lie closer to home? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore an unsolved missing children’s case which recently passed its 20-year anniversary. Special thanks to listener Michelle Matthews for narrating the opening of this episode.
If you have any information about this case, please contact the Milwaukee Police Department at (414) 935-7360 or Milwaukee Crime Stoppers at (414) 224-TIPS (8477).
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Additional Reading:
https://charleyproject.org/case/alexis-s-patterson
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2022/05/03/elizabeth-smart-alexis-patterson-missing-children-racial-bias/7384510001/
https://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/disappearance-of-alexis-patterson-journal-sentinel-archives-385123251.html
https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-alexis-patterson-missing-20-years-since-disappearance/39894820
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2021/01/20/laron-bourgeois-stepfather-alexis-patterson-has-died/4225015001/
https://fox8.com/news/man-believes-woman-missing-since-2002-is-living-in-ohio-police-take-dna-samples/
https://newsone.com/3479238/dna-test-to-determine-if-woman-is-alexis-patterson/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91531&page=1
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/14/connie.missing.media/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-tale-of-two-kidnappings/
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“The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 277 - Wil Hendrick

January 10, 1999. Moscow, Idaho. While attending a party at an apartment complex, 25-year old University of Idaho theatre student Wil Hendrick vanishes without explanation and his abandoned car is soon discovered downtown. Three-and-a-half years later, Wil’s skull and jawbone are found in a rural wooded area and even though his exact cause of death cannot be determined, he is ruled to be the victim of a homicide. Since Wil was gay, it is speculated that his murder might have been a hate crime. While investigators explore a number of different angles, including the involvement of a truck driver who had once worked for Wil’s partner, no conclusive answers are ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the perplexing unsolved death of a beloved stage actor.
If you have any information about this case, please contact the Moscow Police Department at (208) 882-2677.
Additional Reading:
https://unsolved.com/gallery/william-hendrick/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Wil_Hendrick
https://www.newspapers.com/image/394691372/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/575375908/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/575375972/
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/575385669/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/575492764/
https://web.archive.org/web/20060128160446/http://www.argonaut.uidaho.edu/archives/020601/newsstory1.html
http://dnews.com/local/hendrick-case-gets-assist-from-fbi/article_43106165-3eec-5f6a-bc92-7681493ab6c5.html
https://www.khq.com/news/what-happened-to-wil/article_bb295859-b707-5b79-b35a-2f5f1e9f5a18.html
https://lmtribune.com/northwest/a-party-leads-to-murder/article_a2be6edf-84fb-5cec-83b6-367d08f2eb84.html
https://www.nwpb.org/2022/05/04/remembering-wil-hendrick-a-cold-murder-case-kept-alive/
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“The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 276 - Paul Armstrong, Steven Lombard & Karen Wright

December 17, 1993. Merced, California. 27-year old Paul Armstrong, a tow truck operator employed by RTS Towing, vanishes without explanation from his home. Later that day, 34-year old Steven Lombard, another tow truck operator from the same company, goes to the towing yard to pick up his paycheque before he also disappears and his abandoned pick-up truck is found in a K-Mart parking lot the following morning. Over 15 years later, the owner of RTS Towing, Randal Wright, becomes a person of interest in the disappearance of his 50-year old estranged wife, Karen Wright, who vanishes from their vacation home in Mexico. While there is suspicion that Randal might have been involved in all of these disappearances, no trace of any of the victims is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will be covering a trio of unsolved missing persons cases and explore whether or not they are actually connected to each other. After that… the trail went cold.
If you have any information about this case, please contact the Merced County Sheriff’s Office at (209) 385-7445.
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Additional Reading:
https://charleyproject.org/case/paul-henry-armstrong
https://charleyproject.org/case/steven-lincoln-lombard
https://www.mercedsunstar.com/latest-news/article3240379.html
https://abc30.com/archive/6719241/
https://sanbenito.com/updated-former-local-missing-in-mexico-for-3-months/
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/crime/article24554236.html
https://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/article3251777.html
https://www.modbee.com/latest-news/article3127847.html
https://www.modbee.com/latest-news/article3133722.html
https://www.newspapers.com/image/784386582/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/784386631
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“The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel &  Spa in London on June 11-12, 2022. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo  code, “COLD22”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk.
“The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on  GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True  Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website.
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.