The Path Went Chilly

June 11, 1980. Todmorden, England. The body of 56-year old Zigmund Adamski is found on top of a large pile of coal inside a coal yard. Five days earlier, Zigmund had vanished after leaving his home, which is located 25 miles away, but his whereabouts during that time period are unknown. Zigmund’s official cause of death is believed to be a heart attack, but there are a number of strange clues at the scene, including some unexplained burns on his head. Months later, one of the police constables who found Zigmund’s body experiences what he believes to be a bizarre encounter with a UFO, leading to speculation that the two events might be connected. Could alien abduction have played a role in Zigmund Adamski’s death? If not, what did happen to him and how did he wind up dead at that particular location? For this month’s first Halloween-themed episode of “The Path Went Chilly, we will be travelling to the United Kingdom to explore one of the strangest mysteries we’re ever covered.

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Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Godfrey

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/yorkslincs/series2/ufo_alien_abduction_yorkshire_pennine_sighting_adamski_mystery.shtml

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/unsolved-baffling-case-missing-miner-14150127

http://www.thedefectivespodcast.uk/blog

Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind” by Nick Redfern

“Acknowledged: A Perspective on UFOs, Aliens and Crop Circles” by Andrew Johnson

“The Book of Ghosts, UFOs and the Unexplained” by James Paton

July 6, 1986. Owensboro, Kentucky. 16-year old Shannon Green disappears after leaving her residence to visit a family friend. Days later, Shannon’s mother receives a phone call from someone calling himself “Dewayne”, who claims that he and Shannon ran away together to get married. Shortly thereafter, an 18-year old acquaintance of Shannon’s named David Dewayne Bell also goes missing. A man named John Reneer eventually provides the authorities with a tape of a recording in which Dewayne seemingly confesses to murder. Allegations surface that Dewayne killed Shannon and his father helped him cover the whole up, but if so, what actually happened to Dewayne? Could someone have been responsible for the disappearances of both victims? On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we explore a convoluted saga involving two unsolved missing persons cases from the same town and their alleged connection to each other.If you have any information about the featured cases, please contact the Owensboro Police Department at (270) 687-8888.

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Additional Reading:

https://charleyproject.org/case/shannon-rena-green

https://charleyproject.org/case/david-dewayne-bell

https://www.14news.com/story/4067371/14-news-investigates-killer-confession

https://www.14news.com/story/4058011/stefanie-silvey-investigatesowensboro-mystery/

https://www.14news.com/story/4138121/stefanie-silvey-investigates-the-other-side

https://www.14news.com/story/4061386/stefanie-silvey-investigatescaught-on-tape

https://www.14news.com/story/8250791/unsolved-murders-angie-dickens-shannon-green-and-dewayne-bell/

https://echoespath.com/shannon-rena-
green/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/382454414/https://www.newspapers.com/image/381928714/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/381928739/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/381929350/https://www.newspapers.com/image/381929358/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/382197728/https://www.newspapers.com/image/382197748

July 6, 1986. Owensboro, Kentucky. 16-year old Shannon Green disappears after leaving her residence to visit a family friend. Days later, Shannon’s mother receives a phone call from someone calling himself “Dewayne”, who claims that he and Shannon ran away together to get married. Shortly thereafter, an 18-year old acquaintance of Shannon’s named David Dewayne Bell also goes missing. A man named John Reneer eventually provides the authorities with a tape of a recording in which Dewayne seemingly confesses to murder. Allegations surface that Dewayne killed Shannon and his father helped him cover the whole up, but if so, what actually happened to Dewayne? Could someone have been responsible for the disappearances of both victims? On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we explore a convoluted saga involving two unsolved missing persons cases from the same town and their alleged connection to each other.If you have any information about the featured cases, please contact the Owensboro Police Department at (270) 687-8888.

Support the show: 

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Additional Reading:

https://charleyproject.org/case/shannon-rena-green

https://charleyproject.org/case/david-dewayne-bell

https://www.14news.com/story/4067371/14-news-investigates-killer-confession

https://www.14news.com/story/4058011/stefanie-silvey-investigatesowensboro-mystery/

https://www.14news.com/story/4138121/stefanie-silvey-investigates-the-other-side

https://www.14news.com/story/4061386/stefanie-silvey-investigatescaught-on-tape

https://www.14news.com/story/8250791/unsolved-murders-angie-dickens-shannon-green-and-dewayne-bell/

https://echoespath.com/shannon-rena-
green/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/382454414/https://www.newspapers.com/image/381928714/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/381928739/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/381929350/https://www.newspapers.com/image/381929358/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/382197728/https://www.newspapers.com/image/382197748

July 24, 1997. Fremont County, Wyoming. After spending the day running errands, 24-year old Amy Wroe Bechtel never returns home and her abandoned car is discovered on a remote road in Shoshone National Forest. Even though he claims to have an alibi, Amy’s husband, Steve Bechtel, is looked at as a potential suspect by law enforcement, due to his unwillingness to take a polygraph test. However, the investigation eventually focuses on convicted murderer Dale Wayne Eaton, who was supposedly in the area when Amy went missing, but there is no evidence to implicate him and no trace of Amy is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we explore the puzzling disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel, who has continued to remain a missing person for the past 26 years. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office at (307) 332-5611.

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Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Wroe_Bechtel

http://charleyproject.org/case/amy-joy-wroe-bechtelhttps://www.outsideonline.com/1829016/long-gone

http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/long-gone-girlhttp://people.com/archive/into-thin-air-vol-49-no-11/

https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/sheriff-believes-amy-wroe-bechtel-was-victim-of-killer/article_5c2b29d9-de5f-54b9-b0cb-a93aff383668.html

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/amy-wroe-bechtel-case-timeline/article_f289eca2-a639-5a75-a565-814f41b5249c.html

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/officials-killer-said-to-camp-where-wroe-bechtel-vanished-in-wyoming/article_5048323d-d60c-5e4f-ba60-e3536f0701b1.html

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

July 24, 1997. Fremont County, Wyoming. After spending the day running errands, 24-year old Amy Wroe Bechtel never returns home and her abandoned car is discovered on a remote road in Shoshone National Forest. Even though he claims to have an alibi, Amy’s husband, Steve Bechtel, is looked at as a potential suspect by law enforcement, due to his unwillingness to take a polygraph test. However, the investigation eventually focuses on convicted murderer Dale Wayne Eaton, who was supposedly in the area when Amy went missing, but there is no evidence to implicate him and no trace of Amy is ever found. On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we explore the puzzling disappearance of Amy Wroe Bechtel, who has continued to remain a missing person for the past 26 years. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office at (307) 332-5611.

Support the Show: 

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Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Amy_Wroe_Bechtel

http://charleyproject.org/case/amy-joy-wroe-bechtelhttps://www.outsideonline.com/1829016/long-gone

http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/long-gone-girlhttp://people.com/archive/into-thin-air-vol-49-no-11/

https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/sheriff-believes-amy-wroe-bechtel-was-victim-of-killer/article_5c2b29d9-de5f-54b9-b0cb-a93aff383668.html

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/amy-wroe-bechtel-case-timeline/article_f289eca2-a639-5a75-a565-814f41b5249c.html

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/officials-killer-said-to-camp-where-wroe-bechtel-vanished-in-wyoming/article_5048323d-d60c-5e4f-ba60-e3536f0701b1.html

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

August 17, 1992. Waukegan, Illinois. While babysitting two children, 11-year old Holly Staker is sexually assaulted and brutally murdered inside their apartment. Two months later, a suspect named Juan Rivera is brought in for questioning and confesses to the murder after four straight days of interrogation. He is subsequently convicted and receives a life sentence, but no physical evidence links Rivera to the crime and the veracity of his confession is called into question. After Rivera serves 19 years in prison, DNA evidence eventually links Holly’s death to another murder… but could another innocent person also be serving time in prison for that particular crime? 

Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rivera_(wrongful_conviction)https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3850

https://courts.illinois.gov/opinions/AppellateCourt/2011/2ndDistrict/December/2091060.pdf

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/documents/rivera_brief.pdf

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-06-10/news/chi-dna-links-murder-and-rape-of-holly-staker-11-to-second-murder-8-years-later-20140610_1_holly-staker-dna-evidence-dna-match

August 17, 1992. Waukegan, Illinois. While babysitting two children, 11-year old Holly Staker is sexually assaulted and brutally murdered inside their apartment. Two months later, a suspect named Juan Rivera is brought in for questioning and confesses to the murder after four straight days of interrogation. He is subsequently convicted and receives a life sentence, but no physical evidence links Rivera to the crime and the veracity of his confession is called into question. After Rivera serves 19 years in prison, DNA evidence eventually links Holly’s death to another murder… but could another innocent person also be serving time in prison for that particular crime? 

Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rivera_(wrongful_conviction)https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3850

https://courts.illinois.gov/opinions/AppellateCourt/2011/2ndDistrict/December/2091060.pdf

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/documents/rivera_brief.pdf

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-06-10/news/chi-dna-links-murder-and-rape-of-holly-staker-11-to-second-murder-8-years-later-20140610_1_holly-staker-dna-evidence-dna-match

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April 25, 1988. Copperas Cove, Texas. After an argument with her boyfriend, 20-year old college student Elizabeth Campbell storms out of his house and receives a ride to a convenience store. After phoning her boyfriend and making an unsuccessful attempt to convince him to pick her up, Elizabeth vanishes without a trace. Over the next few weeks, there would be multiple sightings of a woman resembling Elizabeth in the company of a possessive man, leading to speculation that she was being controlled by a pimp. Was Elizabeth abducted and murdered, or was she actually kept alive and forced into prostitution? 

Additional Reading:

http://unsolved.com/archives/elizabeth-campbell

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/campbell_elizabeth.htmlhttps://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Campbell

June 25, 1983. Jefferson County, Montana. While attending a picnic with her family in Helena National Forest, four-year old Nyleen Kay Marshall goes off to play with some other children until she vanishes without a trace. An extensive search of the forest fails to find her, but other kids report having seen an unidentified man in a jogging suit speaking to Nyleen shortly before she went missing. Over two years later, the authorities receive a series of anonymous letters and phone calls from a man who claims to be raising Nyleen, but he is never identified and Nyleen cannot be found. Was Nyleen Kay Marshall actually the victim of a stranger abduction and, if so, who was responsible? On this week’s episode of “The Path Went Chilly”, we explore a disturbing unsolved missing children’s case which has featured a number of surprising twists and turns these past four decades. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office at (406) 225-4075.

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Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Nyleen_Marshallhttps://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Nyleen_Marshall

https://charleyproject.org/case/nyleen-kay-marshallhttps://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/nyleen-kay-marshall-statistic-or-sadistic

https://www.newspapers.com/image/393478114/https://www.newspapers.com/image/393478143/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/405882338/https://www.newspapers.com/image/394181486/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/526972062/https://www.newspapers.com/image/526972802/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/409663551/

https://www.kxlh.com/news/2017/02/07/cold-case-what-happened-to-nyleen-marshall/

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

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April 20, 1989. Circle, Montana. While driving on the wrong side of a rural highway, 37-year old Patricia Meehan gets into a collision with another car. After staring blankly at the vehicle’s driver, Patricia walks out onto the prairie and disappears. During the next few months, there would be numerous sightings of a disoriented-woman resembling Patricia. This leads to speculation that the trauma of the car crash caused Patricia to develop amnesia and forget who she was, but she is ultimately never found.

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