June 3, 2017. Dallas, Texas. After suffering a violent assault at the hands of a female acquaintance and her male companion, 27-year old Armani Morgan goes missing. Seven weeks later, Armani’s skull and five of his other bones are found in a vacant residential lot located near his residence and since the police are inclined to believe that he succumbed to a drug overdose, his cause of death is listed as “undetermined”. However, in the days prior to his disappearance, Armani had been repeatedly assaulted and harassed by this female acquaintance, who also allegedly fired a bullet through his living room window. While Armani’s loved ones suspect he was the victim of foul play and that three individuals were involved in the crime, his death is never reclassified as a “homicide”. At the direct request of his family, this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” will be exploring the controversial case of Armani Morgan. A petition has also been started to demand that the Dallas Police Department test evidence from Armani’s case and can be found at Change.org: https://www.change.org/p/demand-dallas-pd-test-armani-morgan-s-evidence-after-8-years

Additional Reading:

https://www.fox4news.com/news/nonprofit-billboard-draws-attention-dallas-cold-case-murder

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/armani-morgan-cold-case-billboard/3846479/

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September 11, 1987. Cowlitz County, Washington. The dismembered headless torso of a woman is discovered in the Lewis River and the same victim’s legs are soon found 30 miles away in the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Thirteen days later, the body of an infant girl who is believed to be the woman’s daughter is discovered in the Cowlitz River, but since the identity of both victims cannot be determined, they remain Jane Does. In 2006, the decedents are finally identified as 24-year old Raj Narain, who originally hailed from Fiji, and her 14-month old American-born daughter, Kamnee. It turns out that Raj’s 30-year old husband, Ashok Narain, went missing around the same time the murders took place, but since he cannot be found, the crime is never solved. Did Ashok murder his wife and daughter, or were all they victims of an unknown third party? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the bizarre saga of the Narain family.

If you have any information about this case, please contact the the Kelso Police Department at (360) 423-1270., the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office at (360) 577-3092 or the Eugene Police Department at (541) 682-5111.

Additional Reading:

https://charleyproject.org/case/ashok-kumar-narain

https://www.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/09/after_20_years_dna_identifies.html

https://www.seattlepi.com/news/slideshow/Without-a-Trace-5058.php

https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Part-7-Records-often-are-as-hard-to-find-as-a-1107646.php

https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/unmarked-graves-may-hold-his-sister-niece-1213531.php

https://www.smh.com.au/national/o-sister-where-art-thou-20071116-gdrm21.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20110822070624/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=178389

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577345367/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577345422/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577330965/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577345899/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1174283670/

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/577394202/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577107875/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/577107787/

https://old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1mrfr6q/in_1987_a_whole_family_would_vanish_from_eugene/

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December 4, 1998. New Haven, Connecticut. 21-year old Suzanne Jovin, a senior student at Yale University, leaves her apartment in order to return a set of keys to a building located on the Old Campus. Before she can return home, Suzanne is found murdered in a residential area located nearly two miles from the campus and it turns out she has been stabbed 17 times and had her throat slit. Suspicion soon turns towards a Yale lecturer named James Van de Velde, who was functioning as Suzanne’s senior thesis advisor, but he maintains his innocence and there is no evidence linking him to the crime. Over the years, a number of different leads emerge, including a promising alternate suspect who was a student at Yale, but the crime is never solved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the controversial murder of Suzanne Jovin. Special thanks to listener Karen Leabo for the narrating the opening of this episode.

f you have any information about this case, please contact the top line for the Connecticut Division of Criminal Justice’s Cold Case Task Force Unit at 1-866-623-8058.

Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Suzanne_Jovin

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1999/08/yale-murder199908

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2008/07/16/investigators-seek-the-someone-jovin-referenced-in-hour-before-stabbing/

https://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/2184-new-leads-in-a-cold-case

https://www.courant.com/2001/10/27/test-shows-dna-not-from-jovins-yale-adviser/

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Tips-in-1998-slaying-of-Yale-student-Suzanne-11530105.php

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Jovin-murder-mystery-continues-20-years-later-13438017.php

https://www.nhregister.com/connecticut/article/Prosecutor-James-Van-de-Velde-no-longer-a-11435141.php

https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/investigators-ask-for-publics-help-in-solving-25-year-old-homicide-cold-case-in-new-haven/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvsLjCFNZdE

“The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content.

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

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.