March 10, 2007. Chocowinity, North Carolina. The mother of 19-year old university student Ginni Wood calls her up on her cell phone, but after their brief conversation ends, Ginni is never heard from again. Ginni told her mother she had travelled to Brownsville, Texas for spring break in order to visit her 19-year old best friend, Kelly Gaskins, and Kelly’s 23-year old boyfriend, Ervin Williams. However, it turns out that Ervin is a fugitive who fled North Carolina after failing to appear in court on numerous felony charges and Kelly is also wanted for a probation violation. This leads to speculation that the couple travelled across the border into Mexico in order to evade the authorities before Ginni joined them there, but Ervin and Kelly are also not heard from again. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the perplexing story of three American citizens who seemingly went missing together in Mexico and have not been seen for the past 17 years.
Additional Reading:
https://charleyproject.org/case/virginia-lynne-wood
https://charleyproject.org/case/kelly-gray-gaskins
https://disappearedblog.com/virginia-wood/
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 155 – Update!
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 154 – The Walker Family Murders
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 153 – Katrina Ploy
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 152 – Melvin Horst
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 151 – The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 150 – Amy Billig
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 149 – Robert Hoagland
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 148 – Joan Gay Croft
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 147 – The Lewis Clark Valley Murders
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 146 – Janett Christman
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 145 – David Stone & Devin Williams
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 144 – Sydney Land & Neo Kaufmann
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 143 – Charlie Anderson and Carol Montecalvo
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 142 – Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 141 – David Bocks
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 140 – Michele Harris
The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – Kent Heitholt
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 139 – The Short Family Murders
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 138 – Doyle Wheeler
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 137 – Clifford Sherwood & George Gumbly
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