December 26, 1983. Dallas, Texas. Two-year old Amber Crum is reported missing after James Britt Monroe, the live-in boyfriend of Amber’s mother, Stephanie Hughes, informs police that Amber was abducted from his parked pick-up truck while he was inside a grocery store. Weeks later, Britt is arrested on suspicion of murder after Stephanie implicates him in Amber’s death. However, when Stephanie testifies during a preliminary hearing, she recants her original story, so Britt is released from custody and a grand jury declines to indict him due to lack of evidence. In 2007, a convicted child murderer named David Elliott Penton is looked at as a person of interest in Amber’s disappearance, but there is no evidence to implicate him. Was Amber actually the victim of a stranger abduction? Or was someone close to her responsible for her disappearance? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a controversial missing children’s case which has gone without answers for 40 years. Special thanks to listener Jana Goetz for narrating the opening of this episode.



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<a href="https://charleyproject.org/case/amber-nicole-crum">https://charleyproject.org/case/amber-nicole-crum</a> 



<a href="https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Amber_Crum">https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Amber_Crum</a> 



<a href="https://rcccmcc.com/2019/08/11/25-txf-amber-nicole-crum/">https://rcccmcc.com/2019/08/11/25-txf-amber-nicole-crum/</a> 



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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Elliott_Penton">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Elliott_Penton</a>



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The Trail Went Cold – Episode 358 – Amber Crum

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