July 4, 1999. Travelers Rest, South Carolina. The parents of 20-year old Brooke Henson return home to find her sitting on the front porch at 2:00 AM. Brooke tells them she is going to walk to a nearby store to buy cigarettes, but she does not return home and is never heard from again. Years later, investigators are shocked to discover that Brooke is registered for classes at Columbia University in New York because a con artist named Esther Reed has stolen her identity. In spite of this revelation, Brooke’s disappearance continues to remain unsolved, but we will attempt to figure out what really happened to her on this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”.

Additional Reading:

http://charleyproject.org/case/brooke-leigh-henson

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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vicky-ward/esther-reed-how-an-ordina_b_166118.html

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

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.