The Trail Went Cold The Trail Went Cold

June 12, 1962. Worthington, Minnesota. 20-year old Marlys Gross gives birth to a baby daughter named Mary Agnes, but is told by the hospital staff that the child died shortly after she was born. Mary Agnes is given a funeral and buried in a grave, but months later, Marlys is mailed a photograph of an unidentified family holding a baby whom she believes is her daughter. Over the next three decades, Marlys would discover a number of suspicious discrepancies to make her believe that Mary Agnes is still alive, so she petitions to have her gravesite exhumed in 1996. While skeletal remains of a deceased child are found, DNA testing reveals that they do not belong to Mary Agnes. Did the hospital orchestrate a cover-up in order to perform a black-market adoption and sell Mary Agnes to another family? If so, then whose remains were buried in Mary Agnes’ grave? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a very bizarre and complicated mystery about the disappearance of a newborn infant.







Additional Reading:







https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Agnes_Gross







https://www.newspapers.com/image/240234019/?terms=%22Mary%2BAgnes%2BGross%22







https://www.newspapers.com/image/454862991/?terms=%22Mary%2BAgnes%2BGross%22







https://www.newspapers.com/image/240973566/?terms=%22Mary%2BAgnes%2BGross%22







https://www.newspapers.com/image/240282173/?terms=%22Mary%2BAgnes%2BGross%22







https://www.newspapers.com/image/336511442/?terms=%22Mary%2BAgnes%2BGross%22







https://www.newspapers.com/image/336776572/?terms=%22Mary%2BAgnes%2BGross%22







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February 26, 1980. Berkeley, California. 51-year old Al Mills, his 40-year old wife, Jeannie, and Jeannie’s 16-year old daughter, Daphene, are all shot to death, execution-style, in their home. Jeannie’s 17-year old son, Eddie, is left unharmed inside his bedroom, but claims he did not hear the murders take place. Years earlier, the Mills family had defected from the Reverend Jim Jones’ infamous cult, the Peoples Temple, and become outspoken advocates against them. Following the Jonestown Massacre, rumours circulated that surviving members of the cult were going to target the family as revenge. However, investigators suspect that Eddie was the actual perpetrator and make an unsuccessful attempt to charge him with the crime 25 years later. Did Eddie Mills murder his own family, or were they victims of an assassination by outside intruders? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores an unsolved triple homicide and its potential connection to the Jonestown saga.







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Additional Reading:







https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannie_Mills







https://people.com/archive/the-mills-family-murders-could-it-be-jim-jones-last-revenge-vol-13-no-11/







https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BERKELEY-Man-jailed-in-family-slayings-from-25-2557794.php







https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2005/12/09/son-wont-be-charged-in-1980-slayings/







https://archives.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2015/11/12/yesterdays-crimes-peoples-temple-hit-squads-and-jonestowns-last-victims







https://www.sfweekly.com/news/yesterdays-crimes-jonestown-was-just-the-beginning-for-one-peoples-temple-family/







https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/articles/199203/the-truth-about-jonestown







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May 19, 1990. Madison, Wisconsin. After coming home from his job at a bicycle shop to grab food during his lunch break, 19-year old Chad Maurer tells his parents that he is going to return to his workplace, but he soon turns up missing. Two days later, Chad’s body is found in his car inside a garage on the South Side of Chicago and his cause of death is determined to be carbon monoxide poisoning. While the police initially believe that Chad’s death was a suicide, there are numerous bruises and injuries on his body which seem to indicate foul play. Chad’s parents receive information to suggest he may have been murdered because he became involved in drug trafficking, but there are no conclusive answers about what happened to him. This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores the bizarre case of a young man who turned up dead under mysterious circumstances at a location over 150 miles from his home. In addition, we will also discuss the strange 1988 death of 25-year old Kenneth Engie, who also succumbed to carbon monoxide inside his garage in his hometown of Edmore, North Dakota.







Additional Reading:







https://unsolved.com/gallery/chad-maurer/







https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-12-11-9104210361-story.html







https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-08-mn-6302-story.html







https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/columnists/doug-moe/doug-moe-twenty-five-years-on-remembering-chad/article_6a943b8e-e3de-5e6d-8d0d-602f290fa507.html







https://mytruecrime.com/the-mysterious-death-of-chad-maurer/







https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-12-11-9104210361-story.html







https://unsolved.com/gallery/kenneth-engie/







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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.







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May 27, 2000. Negril, Jamaica. After she is denied entry into Cuba for a junket, 29-year old travel writer Claudia Kirschhoch is rerouted to a Sandals beach resort in Jamaica while she waits for a flight back home to New York. After last being seen walking along a beach, Claudia vanishes without a trace and most of her personal items are left behind in her hotel room. The investigation leads to a resort bartender whom Claudia went out on a date with before she went missing and there are enough suspicious actions from the resort to suggest that a cover-up might have taken place. Who was responsible for Claudia Kirschhoch’s disappearance and how many people were involved? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a frustrating cold case about an American citizen who went missing during an unscheduled trip to a foreign country and has still never been found. Special thanks to listener Allyssa Ramkerrysingh for narrating the opening of this episode.







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Additional Reading:







http://www.unsolved.com/gallery/claudia-kirschhoch







http://charleyproject.org/case/claudia-ann-kirschhoch







https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Claudia_Kirschhoch







https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalee-like-case-5-years-later/







http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/12/travel/tr-33308







https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/nyregion/queens-travel-writer-who-vanished-in-jamaica-is-declared-dead.html







http://www.sabrinaerdely.com/docs/MurderInParadise.pdf







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March 18, 2009. York, England. 35-year old Claudia Lawrence speaks on the phone with her parents and texts her best friend about meeting for drinks the following evening. When Claudia fails to show up for work the next morning and misses her meet-up with her friend, she is subsequently reported missing. The investigation would uncover allegations that Claudia was involved in some secret relationships which may have led to her disappearance, causing the story to become sensationalized by the media. Over the next decade, a number of different men are arrested on suspicion of Claudia’s murder, but due to a lack of evidence, none of them are formally charged. Was Claudia victimized by someone from her personal life, or could a stranger have been responsible for her disappearance? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel to the United Kingdom to explore one of their most prominent unsolved missing persons cases of recent memory.







Additional Reading:







https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Claudia_Lawrence







https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/what_happened_to_claudia







https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35759574







https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/18/ten-years-on-claudia-lawrence-search-frustrated-by-information-withheld-police







https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27418063







https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/claudia-lawrence-murder-theories-latest-becky-godden-serial-killer-christopher-halliwell-yorkshire-a7986021.html







http://nyenquirer.uk/did-halliwell-murder-claudia-lawrence/







https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/everything-know-disappearance-claudia-lawrence-17946108







http://www.findclaudia.co.uk







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June 13, 2001. Dallas, Texas. 51-year old teacher Sharon Davis drops her daughter off at a bus depot, but fails to show up for a scheduled training session at her school later that morning. Five days later, Sharon’s abandoned minivan is discovered in the parking lot of a local fitness club. Suspicion turns towards Sharon’s estranged husband, Ron Davis, as Sharon had filed for divorce from him only two days before she vanished. Ron maintains his innocence and claims that Sharon stole money from him and took off on her own. Did Sharon disappear voluntarily or was she the victim of a marriage gone bad? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we cover a missing persons case which proved so controversial that “Unsolved Mysteries” produced a segment about the case and elected not to air it on television.







Additional Reading:







http://charleyproject.org/case/sharon-eugenia-davis







https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Sharon_Eugenia_Davis







http://www.dallasobserver.com/2002-07-18/news/the-reluctant-witness/







https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/a-fool-for-a-client-6388562







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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.







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