minisodes

May 24, 1990. Livingston County, Michigan. After dropping her mother off at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and spending the afternoon with a friend, 30-year old Paige Renkoski starts driving home. That evening, her abandoned vehicle is discovered with the engine running on the shoulder of Interstate 96, but Paige has vanished without a trace. Before she went missing, witnesses recalled seeing Paige speak with a man outside her vehicle at that location, but he is never identified and Paige is never found.
In addition to Paige Renkoski’s story, this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold” will also be covering the recent unsolved disappearance of 28-year old Danielle Stislicki, who vanished after leaving her workplace on December 2, 2016. Her Jeep was later found parked outside her apartment in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For more details about this case, please visit the website, finddani.org, and if you have any information, contact the Farmington Hills Police Department at 248-871-2610. Be sure to check out Nina Innsted’s episode about Dani’s disappearance on the “Already Gone” podcast.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Paige_Renkoski
http://charleyproject.org/case/paige-marie-renkoski
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2015/05/24/mom-hope-can-bring-little-girl-home/27845653
https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/05/31/new-search-in-the-case-of-paige-renkoski-missing-for-over-20-years/
https://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/2011/11/cadaver_dogs_find_potential_bu.html
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

August 29, 1943. Indianapolis, Indiana. 33-year old Maoma Ridings is serving as a corporal in the Women’s Army Corps at Camp Atterbury and checks into a room at the Claypool Hotel. Later that evening, Corporal Ridings is found murdered on her bed. She has been beaten and slashed with a whiskey bottle and is nude from the waist down. Less than two hours earlier, a bellboy had seen a woman dressed in black inside Ridings’ room. Who was this mysterious woman in black and was she responsible for Ridings’ murder? This week, “The Trail Went Cold” tackles an unsolved World War II-era murder of a servicewoman who once worked as a physical therapist for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Additional Reading:
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2013/10/01/indiana-unsolved-the-1943-murder-of-cpl-maoma-ridings-at-the-upscale-claypool-hotel-remains-a-mystery/2901193/
“The Mammoth Book of Killers at Large” by Nigel Clawthorne
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

August 27, 1992. Tupelo, Mississippi. While Hurricane Andrew moves over the area, 13-year old Leigh Occhi is left home alone for the day by her mother, Vickie Felton. When Vickie fails to reach her daughter from work, she rushes home to discover that Leigh is missing and the presence of blood in the house suggests foul play. Weeks later, Vickie is mailed an envelope containing Leigh’s glasses. Was Leigh abducted and murdered by an unknown intruder… or could her own mother have been responsible for her disappearance and fabricated an elaborate cover story? In this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we analyze a very disturbing and bizarre missing persons case.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Leigh_Occhi
http://charleyproject.org/case/leigh-marine-occhi
https://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/13/grace.coldcase.occhi/index.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090803091158/http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2009/07/leigh-marine-occhi.html#more
http://web.archive.org/web/20090803103803/http://blogs.discovery.com:80/criminal_report/2009/07/leigh-marine-occhi-2.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090803103803/http://blogs.discovery.com/criminal_report/2009/07/leigh-marine-occhi-3.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20090803091153/http://blogs.discovery.com:80/criminal_report/2009/07/leigh-marine-occhi-4.html
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

June 6, 1991. Greenford, England. While leaving her family’s home, 43-year old Penny Bell tells a group of builders that she is running late for an appointment. Later that morning, Penny is discovered dead inside her vehicle after being brutally stabbed 50 times. Three days before her death, Penny had withdrawn £8,500 from her bank account without telling anybody, but the money is never recovered and no one uncovers the reason for the mysterious appointment which led to Penny’s death. “The Trail Went Cold” will be travelling back to the United Kingdom for this week’s minisode, as we chronicle one of the country’s most baffling unsolved murders.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Penny_Bell
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4233444.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3199425/My-precious-Penny-baby-s-helped-reclaim-mother-murder-Daughter-woman-stabbed-50-times-horrific-unsolved-killing-parent-herself.html
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/WHAT+DROVE+PENNY+TO+MAKE+A+DATE+WITH+DEATH%3F%3B+Wealthy+career+woman…-a061177067
Listeners attending CrimeCon 2017 from June 9th-11th at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis can receive a 20% discount on their ticket purchase by using the code “TTWC20”
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

May 9, 1994. Pine Bluff, Arkansas. 18-year old Cleashindra Hall phones her mother from her workplace to say she will be working late and might be calling again once her shift ends. Cleashindra never phones back and does not return home. Cleashindra’s boss, Dr. Larry Amos, tells police that an unknown individual picked her up that night, but troubling holes open up in his story and he displays some suspicious behavior. Even after a search is conducted of his home 18 years later, no hard evidence is found to incriminate Amos and the case remains at a standstill. In this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we examine the frustrating unsolved disappearance of Cleashindra Hall, a case which might only need that one crucial piece of evidence to blow it wide open. For more information about this case and the Cleashindra Hall Foundation, please visit this website…http://findcleashindra.blogspot.ca/
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Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Cleashindra_Hall
http://charleyproject.org/case/cleashindra-denise-hall
http://www.pbcommercial.com/sections/news/local/police-take-new-look-cleashindra-hall-disappearance.html
Listeners attending CrimeCon 2017 from June 9th-11th at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis can receive a 20% discount on their ticket purchase by using the code “TTWC20”
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

April 25, 1988. Copperas Cove, Texas. After an argument with her boyfriend, 20-year old college student Elizabeth Campbell storms out of his house and receives a ride to a convenience store. After phoning her boyfriend and making an unsuccessful attempt to convince him to pick her up, Elizabeth vanishes without a trace. Over the next few weeks, there would be multiple sightings of a woman resembling Elizabeth in the company of a possessive man, leading to speculation that she was being controlled by a pimp. Was Elizabeth abducted and murdered, or was she actually kept alive and forced into prostitution? We explore both possibilities on this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”.
Additional Reading:
http://unsolved.com/archives/elizabeth-campbell
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/campbell_elizabeth.html
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Campbell
Listeners attending CrimeCon 2017 from June 9th-11th at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis can receive a 20% discount on their ticket purchase by using the code “TTWC20”
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

January 6, 1994. Ylenia Carrisi, the 23-year old daughter of the famous Italian singing duo, Al Bano and Romina Power, and a minor celebrity in her native country, has embarked on a solo trip around the world. Shortly after arriving in New Orleans, Ylenia vanishes without explanation. Her disappearance would generate a few leads, including a suspicious street musician who attempted to use Ylenia’s passport and traveler’s checks, and a witness who may have seen her jump into the Mississippi River. Did Ylenia Carrisi drown, disappear to start a new life, or was she was a victim of foul play? We explore each possibility in this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylenia_Carrisi
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/carrisi_ylenia.html
http://people.com/archive/seeking-ylenia-vol-41-no-12/
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/28/us/woman-s-vanishing-engrosses-a-city-redolent-of-mystery.html
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

March 24, 1994. After being honorably discharged from the Army, Matt Flores begins a new job at a computer company called Applied Materials, Inc.. One morning, Matt shows up for a training session at their headquarters in Silicon Valley, but after parking his car, an unknown assailant shoots him in the back of the head. Even though there were more than twenty people in the parking lot and it was covered by security cameras, the killer manages to escape without being seen and the only clue turns out to be surveillance footage of a suspicious-looking Ford Explorer. The investigation fails to uncover anything in Matt’s background to suggest why he was killed. Was Matt deliberately targeted or was he a victim of mistaken identity? Our latest minisode of “The Trail Went Cold” examines a seemingly motiveless murder which is about as close to a perfect crime as you can get.
Additional Reading:
http://unsolved.com/archives/matt-flores
http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/05/16/matt-flores-killing-a-22-year-old-santa-clara-mystery/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2009/03/24/march-2009-santa-clara-murder-still-haunts-family-15-years-later/
http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160516/from-archives-murder-of-matthew-flores-part-1-mystery-killing-leaves-scars-from-ri-to-silicon-valley
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

November 8, 1988. Botany Bay, Australia. A radio operator receives three calls from Ken Jones, the skipper of a steel schooner called the Patanela. The yacht is currently in the midst of a month-long voyage to Airlie Beach, and Ken Jones’ wife, Noreen, and two crew members, John Blissett and Michael Calvin, are also on board. Ken claims the boat has run out of fuel, but after his final radio call is abruptly cut off, there is no more communication from the vessel. When the Patanela fails to arrive at its destination ten days later, a massive search comes up empty, and neither the yacht nor its four passengers are heard from again. There are enough suspicious things about the disappearance to fuel rumors that the boat was hijacked, but aside from a lifebuoy and a message in a bottle from one of the missing crew members, no trace of the Patanela is ever found. This week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold” chronicles our very first mystery about a missing boat.
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Additional Reading:
http://strangeco.blogspot.ca/2016/05/the-last-voyage-of-patanela.html
http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/sailor-note-washes-up-on-beach/news-story/e9d5f977c483078b9bc9b124e9d07be6
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/02/08/1202234167137.html
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

July 4, 1999. Travelers Rest, South Carolina. The parents of 20-year old Brooke Henson return home to find her sitting on the front porch at 2:00 AM. Brooke tells them she is going to walk to a nearby store to buy cigarettes, but she does not return home and is never heard from again. Years later, investigators are shocked to discover that Brooke is registered for classes at Columbia University in New York because a con artist named Esther Reed has stolen her identity. In spite of this revelation, Brooke’s disappearance continues to remain unsolved, but we will attempt to figure out what really happened to her on this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”.
Additional Reading:
http://charleyproject.org/case/brooke-leigh-henson
http://www.sabrinaerdely.com/docs/IvyLeague.pdf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicky-ward/esther-reed-how-an-ordina_b_166118.html
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.