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

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

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

June 6, 1978. Jericho, Vermont. Michael Reapp, the husband of 32-year old Grace Reapp, claims he returned home from work and discovered that Grace and their five-year old daughter, Gracie Reapp, had disappeared, though he alleges Grace left behind a note stating that they ran off voluntarily. Eighteen years later, Michael himself goes missing after police announce that Grace and Gracie’s disappearances have been reclassified as a homicide investigation and a search is being performed of their former property. While Michael is eventually indicted on two counts of murders, he winds up dead before he can be arrested or stand trial, so no trace of Grace or Gracie is ever found. Was Michael Reapp actually responsible for killing his wife and daughter? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a convoluted missing persons case containing a number of surprising twists and turns.

If you happen to have any information about this case, please contact the Vermont State Police at (802) 524-5993

Additional Reading:

https://charleyproject.org/case/grace-marie-canto-reapp

https://charleyproject.org/case/grace-noel-reapp

https://www.newspapers.com/image/203304327/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/203304377/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/202452571/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/202452843/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/203304915/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/203304981/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/863479135/

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2001/06/07/clues-to-missing-woman-sought/51004169007/

https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/vt-police-say-man-wanted-in-1978-murders-is-dead/article_20bee1b7-8322-507f-a632-20ffaf6ebd3c.html

https://www.hngn.com/articles/46885/20141023/hngn-true-crime-feature-where-are-brian-reapps-mother-and-sister-crime-contributor-jon-leiberman-reports-on-the-36-year-old-jericho-vt-double-murder-mystery.htm

“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.

November 21, 1997. Powhattan, Kansas. 28-year old Jodie Bordeaux, who happens to be seven months pregnant, is spending the evening with her husband at their rural farmhouse when several bullets from a semi-automatic rifle are fired into the residence. A bullet strikes Jodie in the head and kills her instantly and her unborn baby daughter, Jordan Shay, also dies. There is speculation that Jodie’s murder might be connected to a conflict from her managerial job at a casino on the Kickapoo Reservation, as a troublesome employee had been fired there under her watch. However, even though investigators have at least three potential suspects in mind, there is not enough to implicate anyone in the crime, so it remains unsolved. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore the unsolved homicide of a pregnant woman. In addition, we will be briefly discussing the unsolved murder of 21-year old Amanda Aldridge, who was also shot to death inside her home in Calhoun, Louisiana in April 2020.

If you have information on the murder of Jodie Bordeaux, please contact the Brown County Sheriff’s Office at (785) 742-7125 or the Kansas City Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-572-7463. If you have information on the murder of Amanda Aldridge, please contact the Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office at (318) 324-2669 or Crime Stoppers at North Delta at (318) 388-CASH (2274).

Additional Reading:

https://unsolved.com/gallery/jodie-bordeaux/

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jodie_Bordeaux

https://www.kansas.gov/kbi/mostwanted/mw_bordeaux.shtml

https://ictnews.org/archive/after-three-years-still-no-justice-for-jodie/

https://ictnews.org/archive/unsolved-mysteries-explores-kickapoo-double-murder/

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2015/04/18/family-unsolved-homicide-victim-wants-justice/16631823007/

https://www.myarklamiss.com/crime/arklamiss-mostwanted/five-years-since-murder-of-pregnant-woman-in-calhoun/

“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.