The Trail Went Cold - Episode 438 - Mike Hearon and Barbara Bolick

August 23, 2008. Blount County, Tennessee. After leaving his condo in Maryville, 51-year old Mike Hearon drives to his rural farm with plans to mow the lawn and some neighbours see him driving away from his residence on his ATV. Mike vanishes without a trace and the abandoned ATV is eventually found on a steep hill located a mile from his property. Mike’s family suspects that he may have stumbled upon something he wasn’t supposed to see and became the victim of foul play, but there is no evidence to work with and Mike is never found.  July 18, 2007. Ravalli County, Montana. 55-year old Barbara Bolick goes hiking in the Bitterroot Mountains on the Bear Creek Overlook Trail alongside a friend named Jim Ramaker. According to Jim, they were headed back down the trail together when he stopped at a scenic overview, but even though he only took his eyes off Barbara for about a minute, Jim claims that she vanished without a trace and he was unable to find her. A massive search effort fails to turn up any trace of Barbara and while Jim is not considered to be a suspect in her disappearance, there is no evidence to explain what happened. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore two baffling missing persons cases involving victims who seemingly vanished into thin air in remote areas. Join us on Saturday, July 5 at 8:00pm ET for an 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://charleyproject.org/case/michael-edwin-hearon https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/50-volunteers-join-search-for-missing-maryville-man-ep-411119166-359796801.html/?page=1 https://www.thedailytimes.com/news/family-of-missing-man-still-searching/article_26118160-9967-54c5-8f13-1aed52c1a285.html https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/aug/27/missing-man-still-mystery-4-years-after/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/128530073/ https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/mike-hearon-man-missing-in-the-mountains/51-354008626 https://www.wbir.com/article/news/special-reports/the-vanished/vanished-mike-hearon-missing-in-the-moutains/51-d4855ea8-13ba-4710-a534-0ce8f1dc8441 https://parkpredators.com/the-local/ https://charleyproject.org/case/barbara-assunta-bolick https://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/ground-search-for-missing-woman-suspendedposted-on-aug/article_623e4d47-a337-5984-bfa5-aa64697c3439.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/411502280/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/352194122/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/352194127/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/352194122/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/352194127/ https://nbcmontana.com/news/local/missing-bitterroot-woman-still-a-mystery "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

October 19, 2001. Leverett’s Chapel, Texas. After leaving her house to go for a walk on a nearby trail, 15-year old Jessica Sadler never returns home and her body is discovered underneath a trash pile at a dumpsite in a wooded area four days later. Jessica’s cause of death is determined to be blunt force trauma and suspicion is directed towards her 18-year old friend, Curtis DeWayne Howard, who confesses to having had sex with Jessica on the day she disappeared. Since Jessica was underage, Curtis is charged with sexual assault, but winds up being acquitted at trial and there is not enough evidence to link him or anyone else to Jessica’s death. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the tragic unsolved murder of Jessica Sadler, which has remained unsolved for over two decades. Additional Reading: https://www.newspapers.com/image/590725885/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590726079/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590726108/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/211114868/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590726314/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/612144132/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/612144146/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590730807/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590730820/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590726893/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590726926/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590733068/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590733086/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590756837/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590756864/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590757231/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590757254/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590758209/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/590758280/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/612157810/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/612157845/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/215598940/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/215599148/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/215600984/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/215601117/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/215437032/ https://www.kltv.com/story/1251895/suspect-found-not-guilty-in-murder-sexual-assault-case/ https://www.kltv.com/story/1511109/anniversary-of-teenagers-mysterious-murder/ For our podcast recommendation of the week, be sure to check out "Evil Lies - The Boy in the Mat: Kendrick 'KJ' Johnson". "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

September 4, 1977. Ewing Township, New Jersey. The nude body of 25-year old graduate student Sigrid Stevenson is discovered beneath a piano cover inside the Main Stage Theater of Kendall Hall on the campus of Trenton State College. She has been bludgeoned to death with a blunt object and since Sigrid had been staying in Kendall Hall that weekend, she was likely attacked while practicing the piano on stage. A number of people are looked at as potential suspects, including campus police officers, campus staff and members of a theatre group, but there is no conclusive evidence to implicate any of them and Sigrid’s murder remains unsolved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a cold case that was recently featured on the Netflix reboot of “Unsolved Mysteries”. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Sigrid_Stevenson https://unsolved.com/gallery/murder-center-stage/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-millville-daily-stevenson-body-fou/134036786/ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-millville-daily-stevenson-no-leads/134036431/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/493806481/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/490192538/ https://www.nj.com/mercer/2014/09/unsolved_mystery_37-year-old_tcnj_cold_case_intrigues_filmmaker_who_wants_answers.html https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/weird-nj/2016/10/30/weird-nj-murdered-student-haunt-tcnj/92929174/ https://www.tcnjsignalnews.com/article/2011/10/grad-student-killed-in-kendall-in-e2-80-9977-the-unsolved-story https://news.tcnj.edu/2024/09/10/sigrid-stevenson-tribute/ https://www.nj.com/mercer/2024/09/cold-case-squad-investigating-perplexing-1977-murder-of-nj-grad-student-sources-say.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/1126678301/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1126678338/ "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

“The Lost Boys of Wineville” is produced by the creators of the award-winning podcast “They Walk Among Us”, and the extended limited series spans 30 in-depth episodes.  This gripping true-crime saga unravels a chilling story that unfolded nearly a century ago, in the shadow of the recently erected Hollywoodland sign, and reached its harrowing conclusion on a remote poultry ranch. For this feed drop, we will be presenting the trailer for “The Lost Boys of Wineville”, but if you want to learn more about the podcast, please visit their website at https://www.thelostboysofwineville.com/

September 2, 1959. Seattle, Washington. 62-year old Pearl Kongsle discovers a paper sack on the walkway outside her residence and when she bends over to pick it up, a bomb goes off and kills her. Even though a car containing three teenage boys is seen speeding away from the scene following the blast, investigators are unable to turn up any major leads or compelling suspects with a motive to harm Pearl. It turns out that months earlier, two relatives of Pearl’s late husband died after a mysterious poisoning and there was another strange incident where sticks of dynamite were discovered on the property of Pearl’s brother-in-law, but no link can be found between these events and Pearl’s murder. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the bizarre unsolved bombing death of Pearl Kongsle. Additional Reading: https://www.historylink.org/File/10051 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pearl-kongsle-widows-1959-bomb-death-among-seattles-coldest-cases/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/769110471/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/734331382/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/769110685/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/258848940/ "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

August 7, 1996. Travis County, Texas. After running errands with her family, six-year old Katherine Korzilius is dropped off at a community mailbox in her neighbourhood and is last seen walking in the direction of her home. Fifteen minutes later, Katherine’s mother discovers her body lying in the road about a quarter-mile away from their residence. An autopsy reveals that she has a fractured skull, so the medical examiner concludes that Katherine was likely thrown or fell from a moving vehicle. While investigators suspect that Katherine may have grabbed onto the back of her mother’s SUV as it drove away before she fell off, her family believes she was murdered by an unknown party in a botched abduction attempt. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the tragic unexplained death of Katherine Korzilius. Additional Reading: https://unsolved.com/gallery/katherine-korzilius/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Katherine_Korzilius https://www.newspapers.com/image/356835619/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/356833981/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/366583053/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/273592307/ "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

June 20, 2009. Bowen Island, British Columbia. While attending a house party, 17-year old Jodi Henrickson leaves during the early morning hours with her estranged 20-year old boyfriend, Gavin Arnott. Numerous witnesses report seeing them walking down the road together and Gavin claims that after they got into an argument, he and Jodi went their separate ways before she vanished without a trace. Since Gavin had a history of violence against Jodi and a no-contact order at that time, he becomes a person of interest in her disappearance, but there is no evidence to implicate him and Jodi is never found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a missing persons case from Canada which has gone unsolved for nearly 16 years. Special thanks to listener Katie Hyde for narrating the opening of this episode. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team at 1-877-551-4448. Additional Reading: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/court-ordered-ex-boyfriend-of-missing-teen-to-stay-away-from-her-1.834790 https://www.newspapers.com/image/505992846/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/505981770/ https://www.vanmag.com/city/people/wheres-jodi-henrickson/ https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/sea-to-sky/family-and-friends-remember-missing-teen-jodi-henrickson-2491436 https://theprovince.com/news/july-3-2009-girlfriend-was-trouble-mom-says-lynne-fedorick-said-she-banned-manipulative-girl-from-her-home https://www.squamishreporter.com/2024/05/27/vancouver-based-studio-making-documentary-about-jodi-henrickson/ https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/cousin-of-missing-squamish-woman-seeks-closure-3345716 https://www.squamishchief.com/local-news/finding-jodi-documentary-shines-new-light-on-case-of-missing-squamish-teen-9137252 https://www.staysafevancouver.com/post/jodi-henrickson-documentary https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/homicide-team-jodi-henrickson-1.7395313 https://globalnews.ca/news/10893417/bc-podcast-credited-tipster-teen-cold-case/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/jodi-henricksons-ex-boyfriend-gavin-arnott-charged-with-assaulting-woman-in-alta/ "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

August 22, 2011. Chilliwack, British Columbia. After not hearing from him for three days, the parents of 38-year old Corey Scherbey enter his residence and discover his body in a kneeling position in front of his couch and there is a large pool of fluids on the floor. The police conclude that Corey died of an accidental drug overdose and started decomposing before he was found. However, since Corey’s father had seen an unidentified woman in his house with him prior to his death and there is other suspicious evidence pointing towards foul play – including an anonymous cryptic letter - the Scherbeys believe that Corey was killed by an outside party. In 2020, a coroner’s inquest is held in which a jury agrees with the original ruling that Corey’s death was accidental, but his family continues to maintain he was murdered. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel back to our home country of Canada to explore a suspicious death which is still surrounded by unanswered questions.  If you have any information about this case, please contact the Chilliwack detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at (604) 792-4611. Additional Reading: https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Corey_Scherbey https://unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/133-Body-of-Evidence-Transcript.pdf https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/chilliwack-parents-cant-accept-police-findings-in-death-of-son/ https://www.bclocalnews.com/news/family-of-murder-victims-suffer-a-unique-kind-of-grief/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/corey-scherbey-chilliwack-death-2011-solicitor-general-orders-inquest-1.5160130 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/corey-scherbey-death-inquest-2011-1.5363850 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coroner-inquest-corey-scherbey-chilliwack-death-2011-1.5787734 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/inquest-begins-nearly-a-decade-after-the-sudden-death-of-a-chilliwack-man/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/verdict-upholds-ruling-coroner-inquest-corey-scherbey-chilliwack-death-2011-1.5792449 https://www.theprogress.com/news/coroners-inquest-rules-chilliwack-mans-mysterious-death-accidental-overdose-1910102 https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/birth-adoption-death-marriage-and-divorce/deaths/coroners-service/inquest/2020/scherbey_verdict_with_coroner_comments.pdf https://www.newspapers.com/image/1112883733/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/899181687/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/899180311/ https://www.pauljhenderson.com/murder-or-accident-the-curious-case-of-corey-scherbey/ "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

October 11, 1991. Bolney, England. The dismembered torso of a male homicide victim which has been rolled up in some carpet is discovered in a wooded area next to a bridle path. His head and both of his hands have been removed and since the victim cannot be identified, he is buried under the name “Unknown Male”. Investigators explore a number of different leads, including a wanted German fraudster who was living in the area at the time the torso was discovered, as well as the possibility that the victim’s death was a gangland killing, but the crime is never solved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we travel back to the United Kingdom to explore the bizarre story of an unidentified decedent known only as “The Bolney Torso”. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bolney_Torso https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/4735827.Sussex_Police_still_trying_to_solve_riddle_of_headless_body/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-15256742 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8403522.stm https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9298428.New_clues_in_Bolney_Torso_mystery/ https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/6712688._Bolney_torso__riddle_still_baffles_police/ https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/8151356.Three_men_ruled_out_of_Bolney_torso_case/ https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/crime/why-the-bolney-torso-killing-is-still-unsolved-27-years-later-122359 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-58862567 https://news.sky.com/story/west-sussex-unidentified-headless-torso-murder-remains-unsolved-30-years-on-12431156 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14220947/Unsolved-execution-couple-1989-linked-headless-man-mystery.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/751468511/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1048097033/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1048444168/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/1048446233/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/826135299/ "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.

October 24, 1998. Brooklyn, New York. 28-year old Kristine Kupka, who happens to be five months’ pregnant, is seen leaving her residence alongside the father of her child, Darshanand “Rudy” Persaud. Kristine never returns, but even though Rudy claims that he took her to a shopping mall and dropped her off a few blocks from her home, his story cannot be corroborated. It turns out that Rudy was married to another woman and had asked Kristine to get an abortion for fear that the revelation about her pregnancy would ruin his life. Even though a cloud of suspicion surrounds Rudy, there is no evidence to implicate him in Kristine’s disappearance and no trace of her is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a missing persons case involving a pregnant woman which has gone unsolved for over 26 years. Join us on Saturday, May 10 at 8:00pm ET for an 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://charleyproject.org/case/kristine-kupka https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/crimelaw/features/1032/ https://www.kristinekupka.com/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristines-story/ https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/31/nyregion/pregnant-honor-student-is-missing-family-says.html https://nypost.com/1999/01/03/missing-womans-ex-love-faced-ostracism-report/ https://www.nydailynews.com/2010/03/06/a-break-in-kristine-kupka-case-is-a-ray-of-hope-for-sister-of-missing-college-student/ https://www.wtsp.com/article/home/tampa-dentist-a-suspect-in-12-year-old-cold-case/67-390710770 https://www.newspapers.com/image/522621310/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/479369403/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/410123826 "The Trail Went Cold" will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boston North Shore in Boston, Massachusetts on July 18-20, 2025. To get a 20 % discount on tickets, please use our specialized promo code, “ROBIN20”, by visiting https://www.truecrimepodcastfestival.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.