The Trail Went Cold - Minisode 3 - Albert Dekker
10/05/16 • 19 min
May 5, 1968. After not hearing from him for three days, the fiancee of 62-year old character actor Albert Dekker (star of such films as “Dr. Cyclops”, “Kiss Me Deadly” and “The Wild Bunch”) enters his Hollywood apartment. She is horrified to discover him hanging dead inside the bathroom. The bizarre manner in which Dekker is found suggests that he was involved in some sort of sadomasochistic sexual activity when he died. The initial ruling is suicide before it is changed to accidental death via autoerotic asphyxiation, but since a large amount of money and valuables seem to be missing from the apartment, suspicion mounts that Dekker was a victim of foul play. On this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we examine one of the strangest unexplained deaths in Hollywood history.
Additional Reading:
“Tales of Hollywood: The Bizarre” by John Austin
“The Mammoth Book of Hollywood Scandals” by Michelle Morgan
http://www.lauriejacobson.com/hollywood_heartbreak_ex.php
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
May 5, 1968. After not hearing from him for three days, the fiancee of 62-year old character actor Albert Dekker (star of such films as “Dr. Cyclops”, “Kiss Me Deadly” and “The Wild Bunch”) enters his Hollywood apartment. She is horrified to discover him hanging dead inside the bathroom. The bizarre manner in which Dekker is found suggests that he was involved in some sort of sadomasochistic sexual activity when he died. The initial ruling is suicide before it is changed to accidental death via autoerotic asphyxiation, but since a large amount of money and valuables seem to be missing from the apartment, suspicion mounts that Dekker was a victim of foul play. On this week’s minisode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we examine one of the strangest unexplained deaths in Hollywood history.
Additional Reading:
“Tales of Hollywood: The Bizarre” by John Austin
“The Mammoth Book of Hollywood Scandals” by Michelle Morgan
http://www.lauriejacobson.com/hollywood_heartbreak_ex.php
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
Previous Episode
The Trail Went Cold - Episode 17 - The Lady of the Dunes
July 26, 1974. The nude decomposed body of a young woman is discovered at the Race Point Dunes outside of Provincetown, Massachusetts. The woman has been murdered via blunt force trauma to the head, but carries no identification. In spite of an extensive investigation, police are unable to uncover the identity of the victim or her killer, so she simply becomes known as the “Lady of the Dunes”. Over the years, there are a number of intriguing leads in the case, including a potential connection to a notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, and an alleged sighting of the victim in one of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters of all time. Join me for this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” as I try to figure out the true identity of the “Lady of the Dunes”
As a bonus, this episode will also contain a review of the true crime book, “The Blood on My Hands”, an autobiography written by Shannon O’Leary, which is available for purchase at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-My-Hands-Autobiography/dp/151969587X
Also, please check out the Doe Network profile page for the “Lady of the Dunes”, which contains facial reconstructions for the victim, her vital statistics, and contact info for the proper authorities should you happen to know who she is: http://doenetwork.org/cases/119ufma.html
Additional Reading:
http://www.masslive.com/bostonspirit/2014/10/whitey_bulger_gays_and_the_lad.html
“The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes” by Michael Newton
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
Next Episode
The Trail Went Cold - Episode 18 - Cindy James
June 8, 1989. Richmond, British Columbia. Two weeks after she disappeared, the body of 44-year old Cindy James is found in the yard of an abandoned house. Her hands and feet have been tied behind her back and her cause of death is determined to be an overdose. Cindy’s death brings an end to six-and-a-half-years of terror, where she reported nearly one hundred incidents of being stalked, tormented and attacked by an unknown assailant. However, police believe that Cindy was a mentally ill woman who staged all the attacks against herself before committing suicide. Did Cindy concoct an elaborate hoax before taking her own life or was she murdered by her mysterious tormentor? In this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, I analyze one of Canada’s most baffling and hotly debated unsolved mysteries.
Additional Reading:
http://unsolved.com/archives/cindy-james
“The Deaths of Cindy James” by Neal Hall
“Who Killed Cindy James?” by Ian Mulgrew
The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.
All music is composed by Vince Nitro.
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