The Trail Went Cold – Episode 243 – Jamie Santos & Rebecca Young

The Trail Went Cold

October 28, 1991. Wheeling, Illinois. A 911 dispatcher receives an anonymous call from a payphone by a man asking for medical attention for a woman. When paramedics arrive at the address the caller provides, they discover the unconscious body of 27-year old exotic dancer Jamie Santos on her bedroom floor and it turns out she has been suffocated with a pillow. There is ambiguity about whether the caller was Jamie’s killer or an innocent bystander who found her body, but he cannot be identified and Jamie’s murder is never solved.

May 1, 1991. Palm Beach County, Florida. The Miami Police Department receives a 911 call from a Spanish-speaking man calling himself “Antonio”, who claims he had witnessed the brutal murder of an African-American woman in a remote sugar can field one week earlier. When police check out the location Antonio described, they find the decomposed body of 26-year old Rebecca Young, who was fatally attacked with a machete. Even though investigators eventually turn up a promising suspect, they lack the evidence to make an arrest and the mysterious “Antonio” is never tracked down.

On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore two separate unsolved murders which were reported by anonymous 911 callers.

If have any information about the murder of Jamie Santos, please contact the Wheeling Police Department at [phone]. If you have any information about the murder of Rebecca Young, please contact the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office at [phone].

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Additional Reading:

https://unsolved.com/gallery/jamie-santos/

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

https://abc7chicago.com/archive/8409252/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-11-01-9104080336-story.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-15-9202130130-story.html

https://unsolved.com/gallery/rebecca-young/

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

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1991-05-06-9102250177-story.html

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1992-11-11-9202280959-story.html

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

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