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Oct 1
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The Trail Went Cold - Episode 451 - Arma...

Robin Warder
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June 3, 2017. Dallas, Texas. After suffering a violent assault at the hands of a female acquaintance and her male companion, 27-year old Armani Morgan goes missing. Seven weeks later, Armani’s skull and five of his other bones are found in a vacant residential lot located near his residence and since the police are inclined to believe that he succumbed to a drug overdose, his cause of death is listed as “undetermined”. However, in the days prior to his disappearance, Armani had been repeatedly assaulted and harassed by this female acquaintance, who also allegedly fired a bullet through his living room window. While Armani’s loved ones suspect he was the victim of foul play and that three individuals were involved in the crime, his death is never reclassified as a “homicide”. At the direct request of his family, this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” will be exploring the controversial case of Armani Morgan. A petition has also been started to demand that the Dallas Police Department test evidence from Armani’s case and can be found at Change.org: https://www.change.org/p/demand-dallas-pd-test-armani-morgan-s-evidence-after-8-years

If you have any information about this case, please contact the Dallas Police Department Special Investigations Unit at (214) 671-3677.

Additional Reading:

https://www.fox4news.com/news/nonprofit-billboard-draws-attention-dallas-cold-case-murder

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/armani-morgan-cold-case-billboard/3846479/

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

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

 

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