On April 9, 1997, Judy Smith, a 50-year old wife and mother from Newton, Massachusetts, decided to accompany her husband, Jeff, on a business trip to Philadelphia. The following day, Judy set out to do some sightseeing in the city while her husband attended a conference. When Jeff returned to their hotel that night, Judy was not there and she could not be found anywhere in the city. Five months later, Judy’s skeletal remains would be discovered in a mountainous area… 600 miles away in North Carolina! The evidence indicated foul play, but eyewitness sightings seemed to suggest that Judy had traveled to the area voluntarily. Did Judy take an impromptu 600-mile trip without telling her family and if so, how did she wind up dead in the Appalachian Mountains? Join me for a new episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, as I analyze the truly baffling unexplained death of Judy Smith.

Additional Reading:

http://unsolved.com/archives/judy-smith

http://citypaper.net/articles/071797/article010.shtml

http://citypaper.net/articles/072497/article015.shtml

http://citypaper.net/articles/100297/cb.smith.shtml

http://citypaper.net/articles/100997/cb.buncombe.shtml

http://articles.philly.com/1997-10-05/news/25540618_1_detectives-medical-examiner-crime-scene

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