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June 12, 1985. Concord, California. Dottie Caylor, a 41-year old woman with a history of struggles with agoraphobia, is allegedly dropped off at a train station by her husband, Jule Caylor, before she leaves on a trip. The following day, Jule finds Dottie’s car in another train station’s parking lot with her purse inside, but Dottie does not return from her trip and is never heard from again. Over the next few years, suspicion would fall upon Jule after some surprise revelations, including a secret engagement to another woman at the time Dottie went missing and an anonymous letter accusing him of murder. Was Jule responsible for Dottie’s disappearance or did she disappear voluntarily to start a new life? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” examines one of our most highly requested missing persons cases.
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Additional Reading:
http://charleyproject.org/case/dorothy-may-caylor
https://unsolved.com/gallery/dottie-caylor/
http://www.thesungazette.com/article/news/2006/06/21/dotties-story-focus-on-husband-in-revived-cold-case/?print=1
The Contra Costa Times (May 7, 2006)
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
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May 7, 1988. Mountainair, New Mexico. Steve Sandlin, a 21-year old rookie with the local police department, is found dead inside the station. He has been shot in the head and since the police chief pushes forward the theory that Steve’s death was either suicide or an accident, it is officially classified as “undetermined”. However, Steve’s family becomes suspicious when they discover several bags of marijuana planted inside his house and learn that Steve had recently arrested a local resident who was involved in drug dealing. Information is uncovered to suggest that Steve may have been the victim of a conspiracy involving other police officers and it would be several years before his death is reclassified as a homicide. This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” covers our first unsolved cold case involving the death of a police officer.
Additional Reading:
https://unsolved.com/gallery/steve-sandlin/
http://unsolvedmysteries.wikia.com/wiki/Steve_Sandlin
https://www.abqjournal.com/201338/officers-death-still-a-mystery-after-25-years-2.html
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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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October 24, 1961. Lincoln, Massachusetts. 30-year old housewife and mother Joan Risch vanishes from her home and the evidence at the scene suggests a violent abduction. Witnesses report seeing a bloody, disoriented woman matching Joan’s description walking down the road that day, but this woman is never found. Over one year later, evidence is uncovered to suggest Joan might have decided to stage her own disappearance. Was Joan Risch abducted, did she disappear voluntarily, or is there an altogether different explanation for what happened? We shall explore all the different angles of one of our most baffling and requested cases on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”.
Additional Reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joan_Risch
http://charleyproject.org/case/joan-carolyn-risch
http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/1996/08/28/8_28_96_spatterd_blood_and_speculation/
“The Search for Joan Risch: Presented by New England’s Untold Stories”
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
