The Trail Went Cold

July 5, 2000. Seabrook, New Hampshire. Curtis Pishon, a 40-year old former police officer suffering from multiple sclerosis, is working the graveyard shift as a factory security guard when his car suddenly catches fire. The fire department shows up to handle the situation, but less than two hours after they leave, Curtis inexplicably vanishes from the premises. Years later, a former factory worker allegedly brags about causing Curtis’ disappearance and even though it is theorized that Curtis was killed after interrupting a theft, there is no evidence to arrest anyone. Did Curtis Pishon become the victim of foul play? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the odd unsolved disappearance of a security guard who went missing during the middle of his shift.
Additional Reading:
http://charleyproject.org/case/curtis-pishon
http://www.unsolved.com/gallery/curtis-pishon
http://findcurt.com
https://patch.com/new-hampshire/hampton-northhampton/missing-seabrook-man-case-still-haunting
http://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20120629/NEWS/206290326
https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20150709/news/150709069
http://www.wmur.com/article/15-years-after-man-s-disappearance-family-seeks-answers/5201660
https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-unsolved-case-file-curtis-pishon/22039680
https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/curtis-pishon-burning-questions
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

March 8, 1945. Shelby, Ohio. 34-year old Mary Jane Vangilder quits her job at the Shelby Army Air Force Depot after working there for a year. Mary Jane had previously lived in West Virginia with her husband and five children, but after the couple separated, Mary Jane went off on her own to live in Ohio. Even though Mary Jane frequently wrote letters to her oldest daughter, there is no further communication from her after she leaves her job and she is never heard from again. Did Mary Jane go off to start a new life somewhere or was she was a victim of foul play? At the request of Mary Jane’s surviving family, this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” will explore a baffling 75-year old missing persons case that has become an active investigation in recent years. If you have any information about the disappearance of Mary Jane Vangilder, please contact Officer Adam Turner of the Shelby Police Department at (419) 347-2242.
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Additional Reading:
http://charleyproject.org/case/mary-jane-vangilder
https://www.register-herald.com/news/crime/the-search-for-mary-jane-vangilder-missing-since-1945/article_022e391b-0838-5ec4-8805-0aa3931ab684.html
https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2019/08/26/body-exhumed-case-shelby-woman-who-disappeared-1945/2118728001/
https://www.richlandsource.com/news/what-happened-to-shelby-s-mary-jane-vangilder-in/article_c0afacbc-a8ce-11e9-bec2-8359e67b24db.html
https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/police-reopen-case-of-woman-missing-from-richland-county-since-1945/95-617994872
“Mysterious WV” Youtube Video Part 1
“Mysterious WV” Youtube Video Part 2
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

September 14, 1963. Bowmanville, Ontario. 13-year old Noreen Greenley leaves her best friend’s house and heads towards the bus stop, but never returns home. Shortly thereafter, one of Noreen’s sisters is nearly struck by a car and hears a female scream from inside, and it turns out the car matches the description of a vehicle seen near the bus stop minutes earlier. Five decades later, a tipster comes forward with an allegation that his deceased father confessed to killing Noreen and buried a car containing her body, but an excavation fails to turn up any evidence. In addition to Noreen Greenley’s disappearance, this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” will also chronicle another unsolved missing children’s case from Ontario involving the disappearance of 10-year old Marianne Schuett, who also became the victim of an apparent abduction on April 27, 1967. Special thanks to listener Dagan Cardinal for providing the opening narration for our episode.
Additional Reading:
https://bringnoreenhome.wordpress.com
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/2782dfon.html
https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/peterborough-region/2019/07/14/cold-case-family-relentless-in-quest-to-bring-missing-bowmanville-teen-home.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/police-excavation-in-55-year-old-cold-case-was-incomplete-forensic-expert-says-1.4871169
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/teen-who-vanished-in-1963-may-be-in-trunk-of-buried-car-family-1.4139614
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/10/18/bowmanville-missing-teen/
https://www.durhamregion.com/news-story/4086670-fifty-years-of-searching-for-missing-bowmanville-girl/
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/534dfon.html
https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/9209395-ontario-cold-case-parents-beg-abductor-to-phone-or-write-us-after-daughter-disappears/
https://www.insidehalton.com/news-story/2942514-what-really-happened-to-marianne-schuett-/
https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1968/1/1/a-little-girl-is-missing
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

May 12, 2000. The South Pole, Antarctica. While working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, 32-year old Australian astrophysicist Rodney Marks becomes seriously ill before he dies. Rodney’s death is initially assumed to be natural causes, but when his body is transported to New Zealand months later, an autopsy reveals that he died from acute methanol poisoning. The New Zealand Police attempt to launch an investigation, but run into jurisdictional issues and since Rodney’s American-based employers prove to be uncooperative, a coronial inquest fails to reach a conclusion about how Rodney died. Was Rodney Marks’ methanol poisoning a tragic accident or was he the victim of foul play? We shall explore all the different possibilities on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, which covers our very first mystery from Antarctica.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Marks
https://www.mensjournal.com/features/a-mysterious-death-at-the-south-pole-20131125/
http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/public/mkivelso/refs/PUBLICATIONS/polar%20death.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jan/14/antarctica.robinmckie
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10415310
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10534046
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10534295
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10561809
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10561811
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/17/us/scientist-dies-at-south-pole-research-site.html?module=inline
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

November 27, 1985. St. Augustine, Florida. While attending a neighbourhood social gathering, 12-year old Martha Jean Lambert tells her mother that she will be taking a brief trip back to their mobile home, but Martha never returns and is eventually reported missing. Suspicion starts to fall upon on Martha’s 14-year old brother, David Lambert, after he gives conflicting stories about the last time he saw her. Over the course of the next 24 years, David makes two separate confessions about killing Martha and disposing of her body. Investigators find David’s second confession to be believable enough that they decide to close the case, but almost immediately after this news is made public, David recants his story. Was Martha’s brother actually responsible for her disappearance, or did something else happen to her? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” covers a very controversial and divisive missing persons case which has yet to find a conclusive resolution.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Martha_Jean_Lambert
http://charleyproject.org/case/martha-jean-lambert
https://abcnews.go.com/US/missing-girl-cold-case-solved-cops/story?id=9465748
https://www.staugustine.com/article/20100102/NEWS/301029981
https://www.staugustine.com/article/20100107/NEWS/301079953
https://www.jacksonville.com/article/20100109/NEWS/801259468
https://web.archive.org/web/20141202205242/http://staugustine.com/stories/112804/new_2730440.shtml
https://crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com/2020/06/what-happened-to-martha-jean-lambert.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LinZik2MPtQ
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

November 8, 1985. Harris County, Texas. A burned-out Jaguar belonging to 52-year old Ed Baker, the millionaire chairman of a Houston-based oil investment business, is discovered in a remote field. The charred remains of what is believed to be Baker’s body are in the passenger’s seat and since he had been suffering from serious financial problems and claimed he was receiving death threats, there is suspicion that Baker was murdered by people he owed money to. However, some people suspect that Baker staged an elaborate suicide in order to ensure his family could collect on his life insurance policies. Did Ed Baker kill himself or was he the victim of foul play? Or could he have actually faked his own death and fled the country? We shall explore all the different theories on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, which covers a very bizarre unexplained death.
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Additional Reading:
https://unsolved.com/gallery/ed-baker/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Ed_Baker
https://www.inc.com/magazine/19861001/1703.html
Houston Chronicle (November 10, 1985)
“Interlock: Art, Conspiracy and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi” by Patricia Goldstone
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

January 29, 2011. Loudoun County, Virginia. 21-year old Bethany Decker calls her place of employment to find out her work schedule, but does not show up for her shift later that night. When Bethany’s friends and family do not hear from her for three weeks, she is officially reported missing. At the time, Bethany was pregnant and her husband had been deployed to Afghanistan, but she was carrying on an affair with another man named Ronald Roldan, who may have been her unborn child’s biological father. Ronald is alleged to have been abusive and controlling towards Bethany, and years later, he is charged with attempted murder after shooting another woman. Was Ronald responsible for Bethany’s disappearance? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore an unsolved cold case involving a missing pregnant woman who seemed to be trapped in a nightmarish situation.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Bethany_Decker
http://charleyproject.org/case/bethany-anne-decker
https://truecrimedaily.com/2016/06/02/update-person-of-interest-in-decker-disappearance-takes-plea-deal/
http://crimewatchdaily.com/2015/10/04/military-wife-goes-missing-while-husband-deployed-overseas/
https://wjla.com/news/crime/gone-without-a-trace-search-for-local-pregnant-mom-missing-for-4-years-113572
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/husband-boyfriend-of-missing-pregnant-woman-questioned
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1103/10/ng.01.html
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

February 8, 2005. Totowa, New Jersey. 43-year old chemist Geetha Angara shows up to work her shift at the Passaic Valley Water Commission treatment facility, but turns up missing. The following day, Geetha’s body is discovered inside one of the facility’s water tanks and her cause of death is determined to be drowning. A number of bruises on Geetha’s neck and body suggest that she got into a violent struggle before she was placed in the tank, so her case is classified as a homicide. While police investigate a number of Geetha’s co-workers, the killer is never identified. Who was responsible for murdering Geetha Angara and what was their motive? Or could her death have actually been a tragic accident caused by negligence? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore an horrific unexplained death which has stymied the authorities for over 15 years.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geetha_Angara_homicide
https://www.nj.com/news/2015/02/from_the_archives_accident_or_murder_former_invest.html
https://www.nj.com/news/2015/02/death_in_the_water_tank_nightmarish_case_remains_u.html
https://www.nj.com/news/2015/02/from_the_archives_at_plant_a_chilling_idea_killer.html
https://www.nj.com/news/2015/02/from_the_archives_state_to_take_up_probe_in_death.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-12-na-drown12-story.html
https://people.com/archive/a-killer-among-us-vol-65-no-11/
https://nypost.com/2006/02/06/zeroing-in-on-n-j-chemists-killer-3-suspects-eyed-1-yr-after-water-plant-slay/
https://nypost.com/2006/05/01/murder-may-be-mishap-scientist-might-have-fallen-into-tank/
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

May 16, 2006. Baltimore, Maryland. 32-year old Rey Rivera receives a phone call which compels him to race out of his house and drive away before he goes missing. Eight days later, Rey’s partially decomposed body is discovered inside a locked conference room at the Belvedere Hotel. Since there is a hole in the ceiling, police conclude that Rey jumped off the main roof of the fourteen-story building and his death was a suicide. However, Rey’s loved ones discover some odd discrepancies which make them think it would have been impossible for Rey’s body to land at that location and they suspect he was murdered. They also believe that Rey’s workplace may have been involved his death and the discovery of a cryptic typewritten note behind Rey’s home computer brings up even more unanswered questions. Did Rey Rivera take his own life or was he the victim of foul play? By popular demand, “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be exploring the featured case from the premiere episode of the new version of “Unsolved Mysteries” and it will be one of our most in-depth episodes to date.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Rey_Rivera
https://unsolved.com/gallery/mystery-on-the-rooftop/
“An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere” by Mikita Brottman
Rey Rivera Autopsy Report
Original Police Report
FBI Behavioural Analysis Unit Report
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fbi-says-dead-filmmaker-s-letter-not-a-suicide-note
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-rey-rivera-netflix-inaccuracies-20200805-zxmiq4ppp5euxhbcm23ksgezva-story.html
https://old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/hj7w5c/stunned_by_rey_rivera_clue_that_no_one_seems_to/
https://ew.com/tv/unsolved-mysteries-terry-dunn-meurer-rey-rivera-update/
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April 24, 1981. Miami County, Ohio. The body of a young woman wearing a buckskin poncho is discovered in a ditch alongside a remote road. She has been severely beaten and strangled to death, but since she carries no identification, she remains a Jane Doe and is given the nickname, “Buckskin Girl”. 37 years later, DNA analysis and genetic genealogy identify Buckskin Girl as a 21-year old Arkansas resident named Marcia King. There are numerous theories about how Marcia may have been murdered, including that she was the victim of an unidentified serial killer who went on to kill a number of other female victims in Ohio over the next several years. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we recount the story of how an unidentified Jane Doe got her name back after nearly four decades and explore her unsolved murder.
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Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marcia_King
https://dnadoeproject.org/case/buckskin-girl/
https://people.com/crime/buckskin-girl-found-dead-ohio-identified-37-year-later/
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/accused/2020/07/13/buckskin-girl-marcia-kings-killer-still-large-after-1981-slaying/5372788002/
https://dayton247now.com/news/local/buckskin-girl-receives-new-headstone-with-her-name
https://www.fox16.com/news/ohio-cold-case-develops-new-timeline-puts-murder-victim-in-arkansas-two-weeks-before-death/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180810025749/https://www.forensicmag.com/news/2018/04/buck-skin-girl-case-break-success-new-dna-doe-project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(serial_killer)
https://unsolved.com/gallery/prostitute-serial-killer/
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