The Trail Went Cold

• The Trail Went Cold - Episode 458 - Stephanie Stewart and Shelley-Anne Bacsu

  August 26, 2006. Hinton, Alberta. After failing to reach her on the radio or the telephone, the supervisor of 70-year old Stephanie Stewart travels to the Athabasca Lookout Tower in the province’s foothills, where Stephanie is posted as a seasonal fire spotter. When he arrives, the supervisor finds a smear of blood on the front steps of Stephanie’s cabin and a pot of water on the stove, but there is no sign of her anywhere. Since bed sheets and other items are also missing from the cabin, there is speculation that Stephanie was murdered by someone who transported her body from the scene and disposed of it, but she cannot be found and there are no solid suspects or a known motive for her disappearance.  May 3, 1983. Hinton, Alberta. After spending the evening with her boyfriend at the Sunset Trailer Court, 16-year old Shelley-Anne Bacsu phones her mother to let her know that an unnamed friend will be picking her up and driving her home. Shelley-Anne never arrives, but a number of witnesses report having seen her walking down Alberta Highway 16 before she disappeared. Some of Shelley-Anne’s clothing and personal items are found scattered on a road next to the Athabasca River, but while her family suspects that she was harmed by someone who gave her a ride, no trace of Shelley-Anne is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel to the same region of Alberta to cover a pair of unsolved Canadian missing persons cases. If you have any information about either fo these cases, please contact the Hinton branch of the RCMP at (780) 865-2455 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Additional Reading: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/a-pot-of-boiling-water-and-a-smear-of-blood-12-years-later-fresh-clues-sought-in-stephanie-stewarts-disappearance https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ten-years-later-disappearance-of-senior-at-alberta-fire-lookout-still-a-mystery-1.3735252 https://globalnews.ca/news/63106/fourth-anniversary-of-stephanie-stewarts-disappearance/ https://globalnews.ca/news/2902724/10-years-since-wildfire-spotter-stephanie-stewart-vanished-near-hinton-alta/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/police-renew-calls-for-information-to-help-locate-wildfire-tower-worker-missing-for-15-years/ https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/stephanie-stewart https://edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/rcmp-historical-homicide-unit-races-against-time-to-solve-alberta-cold-cases https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/28dfab.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/30-years-since-hinton-teen-disappearance-1.1412716 https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/mother-still-desperate-answers-37-years-after-teen-daughter-shelley-n1199006 https://www.newspapers.com/image/740158386/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/494480089/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/472635703/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/475905572/ https://poig57.wordpress.com/ “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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• The Trail Went Cold - Episode 457 - Scott and Amy Fandel

  September 5, 1978. Sterling, Alaska. 13-year old Scott Fandel and his 8-year old half-sister, Amy Fandel, are dropped off at their cabin by their mother, Margaret Fandel, who then goes out to some bars with her own sister. When Margaret and her sister return home during the early morning hours of September 6, they discover a pot of warm water on the stove next to some macaroni and tomato sauce. This suggests that Scott had been in the midst of preparing a late-night snack before he was interrupted, but both he and Amy are missing. There is speculation that the two children were abducted and while investigators explore a number of different leads - including the possibility that some carnival workers or Margaret’s estranged husband could have been responsible for the disappearances - no trace of Scott and Amy is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel to Alaska to explore a baffling missing children’s case which has gone unsolved for 47 years.  If you have any information about this case, please contact the Alaska State Troopers at (907) 262-4453. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/scott-curtis-fandel https://charleyproject.org/case/amy-lee-fandel https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138216282/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1054276130/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138206372/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138456110/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138456273/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1054286770/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1054286791/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138280231/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138204917/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138204935/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1138204963/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1057007859/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1057007991/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1057008009/ “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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• The Trail Went Cold - Episode 456 - Theresa Fusco

  November 10, 1984. Lynbrook, New York, After getting fired from her job at a roller rink, 16-year old Theresa Fusco starts heading home, but she never arrives. Her nude body is eventually found in a wooded area and she has been raped and strangled to death with a ligature. Over four months later, a 21-year old suspect named John Kogut confesses to the crime and implicates two accomplices – 26-year old John Restivo and 31-year old Dennis Halstead – and they are all charged and convicted of Theresa’s murder. In 2003, all three men have their convictions overturned after DNA testing on the evidence excludes them. Kogut winds up being acquitted at his retrial while the charges against Restivo and Halstead are dropped, but there are still questions about who was actually responsible for killing Theresa. For the first time ever, the “Trail Went Cold” is covering a cold case in which an arrest was made while we were in the midst of putting together our episode about it, so we’re going to cover the full story and all the recent developments. Special thanks to listener Reemi Hautamaki for narrating the opening of this episode. If you happen to have any information about the cases mentioned in this episode, please contact the Nassau County Police Department at (516) 573-8800. Additional Reading: https://innocenceproject.org/cases/john-kogut/ https://centurion.org/cases/kogut-john/ https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/10591 https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/10504 https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/10795 https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125077&page=1 https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/mom-of-1984-long-island-murder-victim-decries-award-verdict/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/721897625/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/728546280/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/710299952/ https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/us/theresa-fusco-suspect-indicted-cold-case https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/theresa-fusco-murder-indictment/ https://charleyproject.org/case/kelly-eileen-morrissey https://archive.longislandpress.com/2010/11/18/kelly-morrissey-the-search-for-kelly-morrissey-continues-26-years-later/ “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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• The Trail Went Cold - Episode 455 - The Lead Masks Case

  August 20, 1966. Niteroi, Brazil. The bodies of a pair of electronics technicians, 34-year old Miguel Jose Viana and 32-year old Manuel Pereira da Cruz, are discovered on the top of Vintem Hill and they are carrying a pair of lead masks and some cryptic notes about ingesting capsules. Three days earlier, the two men had travelled to Niteroi from their homes in Campos dos Goytacazes over 260 kilometres away, but there is no direct evidence of foul play and the authorities are unable to determine their cause of death. There are a number of theories about what happened, including speculation that the two men’s deaths might be connected to UFO sightings from the area, but the whole situation is never satisfactorily explained and remains shrouded in mystery. For this year’s Halloween-themed episode, “The Trail Went Cold” is finally tackling one of the most bizarre unsolved mysteries of all time: the Lead Masks Case. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_masks_case https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/the-lead-masks-case/ "Flying Saucer Review" (March-April 1967) https://skeptoid.com/episodes/398 https://www.truecriminelle.com/the-lead-masks-case-bizarre-deaths-what-happened-on-vintem-hill/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoPHYQuAlnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjqCQEjgzk4 “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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• The Trail Went Cold - Episode 454 - Ada Constance Kent

  March 6, 1939. Fingringhoe, England. After purchasing some cigarettes at a local pub, 67-year old Ada Constance Kent seems to disappear and over the course of the next decade, numerous searches are performed of her empty cottage and they fail to turn up any trace of her. Ten years later, a human skeleton is discovered beneath some rubble in the cottage’s bedroom alongside an empty bottle of poison, and after a forensic examination is performed, there is some uncertainty about who the remains actually belong to. When an inquest is held, a coroner’s jury does eventually conclude that the skeleton is likely Ada Constance Kent, but since they are unable to determine her exact cause of death, they return an open verdict. Did Ada Constance Kent die inside her cottage and remain undiscovered for an entire decade? If not, then what actually happened to her? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel back to the United Kingdom to explore a truly bizarre mystery. Join us on Saturday, October 25 at 8:00pm ET for a Halloween-themed online streaming marathon where we will be watching classic segments from “Unsolved Mysteries”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. Additional Reading: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mvbtw https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Ada_Constance_Kent https://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/the-fingringhoe-skeleton/ "Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Colchester" by Patrick Denney https://www.newspapers.com/image/1182993941/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/397806138/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/791699254/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/789295887 “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 produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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