February 11, 2004. Lake Township, Pennsylvania. After returning home from work, 22-year old Phylicia Thomas goes missing and her boyfriend’s best friend, Steven Allen Martin, soon becomes a person of interest. Two-and-a-half years earlier, an 18-year old friend of Phylicia’s named Jennifer Barziloski had also disappeared and since Steve was the last known person to see Jennifer alive, there is speculation that the cases are connected. Over the years, rumours circulate that Phylicia may have been murdered at a party, but while Jennifer’s skull is found in a wooded area in 2010, there are no conclusive answers about how she died and Phylicia remains a missing person. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore two unsolved cases involving young women who went missing under suspicious circumstances from the same area.
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Additional Reading:
https://charleyproject.org/case/phylicia-albina-thomas
https://truecrimedaily.com/2016/04/25/woman-vanishes-while-investigating-dead-friends-disappearance/
https://www.timesleader.com/archive/866402/man-linked-to-missing-women-found-hanged-in-jail-steven-martin-was-a-person-of-interest-in-the-disappearances-of-phylicia-thomas-jennifer-barziloski-police-say
https://www.poconorecord.com/story/news/crime/2010/04/12/skull-found-in-luzerne-co/51641470007/
https://www.timesleader.com/archive/866877/family-and-friends-recall-jennifer-barziloski
https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/689665/family-believes-phylicia-thomas-remains-are-on-hunlock-township-property
https://www.timesleader.com/archive/866689/mother-of-missing-woman-wants-authorities-to-search-property
https://www.timesleader.com/news/local/692490/phylicia-thomas-vigil-tonight-as-family-has-new-leads-for-missing-woman
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/renewed-hope-in-18-year-old-cold-case-of-phylicia-thomas/
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/i-team/property-search-gives-missing-girls-family-renewed-hope/
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The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
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The Trail Went Cold – Episode 361 – Jack Brown
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 360 – Patrick Mullins
The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – New Year New Binge
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 359 – Update, Part 4
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 358 – Amber Crum
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 357 – Paul Logan and Tracey Mertens
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 356 – Cathy Jo Bohlken
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 355 – Amy Wroe Bechtel
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 354 – Danielle LaRue
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 353 – The Chen Family Murders
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 352 – Rae Ann Mossor and Norman Ladner
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 351 – Martha Moxley (Part 2)
The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – Maze of Secrets
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 350 – Martha Moxley (Part 1)
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 349 – Ronald Sisman and Elizabeth Platzman
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 348 – Tina Marie Janose
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 347 – Michael Negrete
The Trail Went Cold – Bonus Episode – Unsolved Mysteries Guilty Pleasures
The Trail Went Cold – Episode 346 – Linda Kerr
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