Episode description

August 18, 1987. Manatee County, Florida. Todd McAfee, the 27-year old manager of a tomato farm, is discovered to be missing from his trailer after his employees arrive for work. Todd’s body is soon found in a nearby drainage ditch and he has been shot four times. Since a valuable gun collection was stolen from Todd’s trailer, he was apparently killed during a botched burglary, and police investigate a sighting of some potential suspects who were seen in the area in an orange van on the day of the crime. Years later, Todd’s former housekeeper, Ruthie Mae Anderson, is indicted for his murder, but the charges are dropped when the case against her falls apart. Was Ruthie actually involved in Todd’s death, or was someone else responsible for the crime? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a cold case which was featured on one of the rarest segments of “Unsolved Mysteries”. In addition, we will also discuss the bizarre unexplained death of 19-year old Tim Molnar, who vanished from his hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida in 1984 before his skeletal remains were inexplicably discovered over 1,200 miles away in rural Wisconsin.

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Additional Reading:

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Todd_McAfee

http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20020826/unsolved-murders-not-forgotten

https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120818/News/605214130

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Tim_Molnar

“101 Wisconsin Unsolved Mysteries” by Mary Balousek

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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.