October 7, 2015. La Grange, California. After he fails to return to his home in San Jose from a motorcycle trip to Oroville, 53-year old Robert Kope is found dead by the side of a remote country road. Robert has been strangled to death with a zip tie, but there are no apparent signs of struggle and his motorcycle is located down the road a quarter-mile away from his body. Seven years earlier, Robert had been engaged to be married to a woman who died after being strangled with a zip tie, but her death was ruled to be a suicide and investigators are unable to uncover a connection between the two deaths or a logical motive for Robert’s murder. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a perplexing crime known as “The Zip Tie Murder” which has gone unsolved for over a decade. Special thanks to listener Phoebe Holmes for narrating the opening of this episode.If you have any information about this case, please contact the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department at (209) 525-7080.Additional Reading:https://unsolved.com/podcasts/the-zip-tie-murder/https://cdn.unsolved.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/71-The-Zip-Tie-Murder.pdf?x49380https://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article264615151.htmlhttps://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-zip-tie-murder-17771869.phphttps://www.newspapers.com/image/667895551/https://www.newspapers.com/image/706304353/“The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content.The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.All music is composed by Vince Nitro.