Wednesday Jun 30, 2021The Trail Went Cold - Episode 232 - Gary Simmons







October 15, 1974. Overland Park, Kansas. 32-year old businessman Gary Simmons leaves his office in order to purchase a horse from a man named Tom Dixon. Later that day, Gary provides authorization for Dixon to cash a $30,000 cheque he paid him, but Gary is never heard from again and Dixon also disappears after collecting the money. Seventeen years later, Gary’s skeletal remains are discovered inside a cave and it turns out he has been shot in the head. While Dixon is believed to be involved, he is never tracked down and investigators suspect that Gary may have been the victim of an elaborate murder plot orchestrated by an unknown third party. Could this person have also killed Tom Dixon? If so, what was the motive for this crime? On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we explore the baffling and convoluted unsolved murder of Gary Simmons.

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Additional Reading:

https://unsolved.com/gallery/tom-dixon/

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

https://apnews.com/article/cf426a208f5d0da2af630c490f93e17ehttp://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1991-10-20/news/9110200207_1_simmons-skeleton-gary-comptonThe Nevada Daily Mail (October 20, 1991)

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