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 324 – Eric Coy & Jeremy Stoner
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 323 – Lisa Myers Neugent
The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – Deceptions & Resurrections
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 322 – Bobby Bizup
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 321 – The Bellingham John Doe
The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – Larry Race
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 320 – Verna Bjerky
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 319 – Natasha Jennings
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 318 – The Eleven Who Went to Heaven (Part 2)
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 317 – The Eleven Who Went to Heaven (Part 1)
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 316 – John & Shelly Markley
The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – My Bloody Valentine
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 315 – Hugh & Dian Harlin, Larry Costine & Melissa Jo Sermons
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 314 – Lindsay Buziak
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 313 – The St. Louis Jane Doe
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 312 – Bryan Nisenfeld
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 311 – Bernd Goericke & Andrea Scherpf
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 310 – Update, Part 3
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 309 – Q&A
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 308 – Ricky Jean Bryant
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