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Trace Evidence

By: Steven Pacheco
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  • Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast that focuses on unsolved cases, from chilling murders to missing persons. Join host Steven Pacheco as he examines each case, diving deep into the evidence and exploring the theories which revolve around them. For each unsolved case, there are the victims and their families, who want answers and the abductors and murders who hide the truth.

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  • 239 - The Murder of John Harden

    239 - The Murder of John Harden
    Apr 8 2024
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    On a warm spring night in March of 1975, thirty-two year old John Harden completed an emergency call for a client and returned home. Less than an hour later, he'd be shot dead in his driveway.

    After finishing his shower, John glanced out the window and saw his work truck engulfed in flames. Running outside to try and snuff out the blaze, his killer got his opening and fired a single blast from his gun. John fell to the pavement and died from his wounds less than twenty minutes later.
    Investigators would later determine that the fire had been purposefully set to lure the father of five outside and into the kill zone. They recovered the murder weapon, though they could never identify it or the owner. As years wore on, the case grew increasingly cold.

    In October of 1991 an episode of Unsolved Mysteries revitalized interest in the yet solved homicide. Not by focusing on the murder and investigating the case, but by chasing alleged ghosts around the house in which John had been killed.

    Was John Harden the victim of a random act of violence, had he been targeted by someone he knew and trusted or was his murder arranged by local union members who grew furious watching John take contracts they felt belonged to them.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • 238 - The Vanishing of Lola Katherine Fry

    238 - The Vanishing of Lola Katherine Fry
    Mar 25 2024
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    On November 13th, 1993, twenty-eight year old Lola Katherine Fry attended a party at a northeastside Indianapolis apartment owned by a friend. She has never been seen again and more than thirty years later the mystery of her disappearance haunts family and friends.

    Reported missing, the Indiana State Police began their investigation by interviewing everyone who had been at the party. They all told the same story, that Kathy left with her former boyfriend, John Ryker. Ryker would tell authorities that, the next morning he ran out on a job call and when he returned Kathy and her car were gone.

    For seven long years the case grew cold until a new investigator took up the casefile and began unraveling years worth of lies and deception. Two men who had been present at the party finally confessed; they had lied in 1993. Kathy hadn't left voluntarily with John Ryker - she'd been taken out, wrapped in a blanket and unconscious.

    Did Kathy Fry accidentally overdose leading her alleged friends to dispose of her body or was the twenty-eight year old murdered as the party goers made a pact to take the truth with them to their graves?

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    Unfound - The Disappearance of Lola Katherine Fry: A Matter of Timing

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • 237 - The Disappearance of Cathy Moulton

    237 - The Disappearance of Cathy Moulton
    Feb 21 2024
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    On Friday, September 24th, 1971, sixteen year old Cathy Moulton disappeared while walking home in downtown Portland, Maine. Despite the desperate pleas of her family, local law enforcement treated the case as that of a runaway and did almost no investigation whatsoever.

    For more than twenty years, the Moulton family did their best to investigate the case themselves. They followed leads, interviewed witnesses and hired private investigators but could get no closer to the truth. Finally, in 1995, a new detective looked at the case and was determined to find answers.

    Detective Kevin Cady would quickly uncover a series of eyewitnesses who were able to track the missing teen's movements out of Portland and to the northern tip of the state before she disappeared across the Canadian border. Perhaps what was most disturbing was the realization that, had investigators in 1971 taken the case seriously, they might have been able to bring Cathy home alive.

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    1 hr and 31 mins
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Diplomatic, informative and captivating coverage

My absolute favorite podcast! Factual, considerate, interesting and respectful case coverage. The thorough explanation of every aspect of the cases are not only very detailed but also delivered in a way that make them a very interesting listen .. Steven is always very well spoken too!

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Best Podcast

Ive been a huge fan of this podcast from the start almost. Steven Pacheco's style of delivery is his own, yet he doesnt need to use any gimmicky, over-the-top, verbal prose--he lets the story tell itself by presenting the facts in an entertaining and engaging manner. This podcast is the best one out right now, as far as im concerned. The only reason i didnt give it 5-stars across the board, is because some time ago he took the background music out of the videos. That eerie instrumental music behind his voice as he relayed the story was really what did it for me. I still like it the way it is now, but it kinda lost something without the scary music in background.

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sensitive, thoughtful, comprehensive

this podcast really deserves much praise, for a one man podcast it's incredibly well researched, very well done, and the subject matter is so very important.

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