When Trails Go Cold

Welcome back to When Trails Go Cold - a Cold Case podcast. Episode 4: The Girl in the Pine Tree. September 4th, 1990. Portbou, Spain. A young woman is found in a pine tree above a small Spanish border town. Her pockets are empty. Nobody in the town recognises her. Nobody anywhere reports her missing. She had, it seemed, arrived from nowhere. In this episode, we explore one of Europe's most hauntin...

Episode 3: A Treat Before Sunrise  Somosierra Pass, Spain. June 25th, 1986. On a mountain road north of Madrid, a truck carrying twenty thousand litres of sulphuric acid comes off the road at speed. One passenger is never accounted for. A ten-year-old boy, last seen eating breakfast before sunrise, vanishes without a trace — leaving behind a case that has baffled investigators for nearly four...

Episode 2: The House Where He Stayed Tokyo. December 30th, 2000. On a cold winter night in Tokyo, someone slips into a house - and leaves behind a trail unlike anything detectives have ever seen. DNA. Fingerprints. Clothing. He eats. He rests. He uses the computer. He moves through the space as if he belongs there. And then, before morning, he’s gone. And his DNA becomes the forensic profile of a...

Welcome to When Trails Go Cold - a Cold Case podcast. Episode 1: Last seen on Chapel Hill. April 30th, 1991. A couple leave their home in Fermoy, Ireland, for a short walk to their local church. A neighbor sees them enter St. Patrick's for a funeral service. They were never seen again. What happened in the days after that sighting? How does a well-known, well-liked couple disappear without a trace...