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The Trail Went Cold - Episode 508 - Stephanie Crane
October 11, 1993. Challis, Idaho. After leaving a bowling alley, nine-year old Stephanie Crane says she is planning to retrieve her backpack from the school across the road before she walks home, but she winds up going missing. An extensive search effort fails to find Stephanie and the only major lead are eyewitness sightings of a yellow pick-up truck which was seen in the school parking lot around the time of her disappearance. Over the years, investigators look at a couple of different persons of interest, including a man who was responsible for abducting and sexually assaulting another girl before he took his own life and also considered to be a suspect in the unsolved 2001 disappearance of Amber Hoopes. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a frustrating missing children’s case involving a nine-year old girl who has still not been found after three decades.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Stephanie Crane, please contact the Custer County Sheriff’s Office at (208) 879-2232. If you have any information about the disappearance of Amber Hoopes, please contact the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office at (208) 529-1200.
Additional Reading:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/stephanie-lyn-crane
https://www.kivitv.com/news/idaho-girl-disappeared-25-years-ago-today
https://www.kivitv.com/news/30-year-cold-case-in-the-abduction-of-stephanie-lyn-crane-still-open
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2025/10/three-decades-later-search-continues-stephanie-crane/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/915497326/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/915966451/
https://charleyproject.org/case/amber-shawnell-hoopes
https://www.newspapers.com/image/567967292/
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
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