Episode description

May 27, 2000. Negril, Jamaica. After she is denied entry into Cuba for a junket, 29-year old travel writer Claudia Kirschhoch is rerouted to a Sandals beach resort in Jamaica while she waits for a flight back home to New York. After last being seen walking along a beach, Claudia vanishes without a trace and most of her personal items are left behind in her hotel room. The investigation leads to a resort bartender whom Claudia went out on a date with before she went missing and there are enough suspicious actions from the resort to suggest that a cover-up might have taken place. Who was responsible for Claudia Kirschhoch’s disappearance and how many people were involved? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” explores a frustrating cold case about an American citizen who went missing during an unscheduled trip to a foreign country and has still never been found. Special thanks to listener Allysa Ramkerrysingh for narrating the opening of this episode.

Additional Reading:

http://www.unsolved.com/gallery/claudia-kirschhoch

http://charleyproject.org/case/claudia-ann-kirschhoch

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

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalee-like-case-5-years-later/

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/aug/12/travel/tr-33308

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/22/nyregion/queens-travel-writer-who-vanished-in-jamaica-is-declared-dead.html

http://www.sabrinaerdely.com/docs/MurderInParadise.pdf

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

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.