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Created November 13, 2023

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  1. In this episode, we're discussing two different cases, the disappearances of Monique Daniels and Jhessye Shockley. Both are very similar cases but with very different outcomes. Monique Daniels, a 15-year-old from Moore, Oklahoma, disappeared in
  2. What would you do if the police knocked on your door one day and told you they had just arrested your parents for your brother’s murder? That was the nightmare scenario facing Victoria Orr, whose beloved mother and father were taken into custod
  3. When Carmel Fenech went missing in London in the summer of 1998, her mother Deirdre, of Broadfield, Crawley, didn’t panic. She was well practised at bringing her daughter home.This wasn't the first, second or even tenth time her child had gone
  4. It doesn’t matter how old your children get, whenever they go on a trip you’re always dreading that phone call…The one that often comes in the early hours of the morning…The one with the solemn voice at the end of the line. The Nutley family of
  5. Consider what the average person goes through when they’re trying to locate a missing loved one. For starters there’s the ongoing dialogue with the authorities, where you’re doing your utmost to provide the investigation with the information it
  6. 500 yards is a relatively short distance. Its about the length of four and a half football pitches, a journey most of us could make in six minutes or less.It also happens to be the distance between Sperrings community shop on Lower Addiscombe R
  7. Mary was 6-year-old when she disappeared in March 1977, in the Republic if Ireland. Her case is the longest running missing-child case in Ireland, a mystery which triggered a huge search from the police, army, and hundreds of local volunteers.
  8. On the 29th of October, 2004, a woman was seen jumping from the window of the 21st floor of Wembley Point, London, England. She was wearing a maroon bomber zip-up jacket with fabric cuffs, a black leather glove on her right hand and a very thin
  9. Sandy Davidson, 3, disappeared on April 23rd, 1976, while he was playing in the back garden of his house in Irvine, Ayrshire. His two-year-old sister - who was playing with him - provided a key piece of evidence at the time, and tells The Missi
  10. Maria Bernadette Aldridge was a 17-year-old cadet nurse, who disappeared some time during the summer of 1968, during her second year at a nurse cadet course at City Hospital. Her sister Cathy tells Maria’s story, including the details of a myst
  11. 16-year-old Damien is one of the UK’s highest profile missing persons. He vanished after a night out on the Isle of Wight. His Mum Valerie has campaigned for 24 years to try and find answers – amidst rumours of the involvement of a local drug
  12. 16-year-old Damien is one of the UK’s highest profile missing persons. He vanished after a night out on the Isle of Wight. His Mum Valerie has campaigned for 24 years to try and find answers – amidst rumours of the involvement of a local drug d
  13. This is a tale of every parent’s worst nightmare come true. Katrice Lee disappeared from a supermarket in West Germany on her 2nd birthday. Almost 40 years later, what happened to her remains a mystery. Her family have never given up hope and a
  14. Bonnie Dages had just turned 18 and had a four-month-old son whom she adored. She worked as a live-in nanny so she could spend more time with her baby, Jeremy, and had big plans for her future. An inheritance that she received on her 18th birth
  15. Asha Degree was a bright, talented, happy 9-year-old living with her parents and brother in Shelby, North Carolina. She was an excellent student and the star of her basketball team. She was surrounded by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins
  16. Challis, Idaho was idyllic. In 1993, it was the type of small town where everyone knew each other and kept their doors unlocked. The children played outside and only came home when it was time for dinner. Nothing can last forever though, and on
  17. It was the beginning of the Martin Luther King Junior holiday weekend in Wilmington, North Carolina, and 30-year-old Ebonee Spears was not doing well. Ebonee, who had been diagnosed with Lupus the year before, had seemingly been having negative
  18. On June 15, 2021, five-year-old Summer Wells was enjoying a beautiful day with her family. The little girl was helping her mother and grandmother plant flowers at their rural Rogersville, Tennessee home. But, like most little kids, she eventual
  19. You may know her as “the other missing girl.” On May 3, 2002, seven-year-old Alexis Patterson walked the half a block to Hi-Mount Elementary School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, accompanied by her step-father, LaRon Bourgeois. LaRon left Alexis at t
  20. Alexis Patterson walked to school on May 3, 2002, but she never made it into the building. Her school didn’t notify her parents of the seven-year-old’s absence, so no one knew she was missing until school let out that afternoon. Her frantic par
  21. In the summer of 1996, parents around Clarksville, Tennessee were terrified. Three young girls had been abducted from the area within a month. While two of their bodies would eventually be found, the third, a 3-year-old named Lucy Meadows was n
  22. Yong Meadows was terrified. She had lost her 3-year-old daughter, Lucy, in a mall parking lot. She ran around calling her name and asking every person she came across if they had seen her daughter. No one had– not even the security cameras. Luc
  23. When Dennis Appleby came home during his lunch break and didn't see his 11-year-old daughter Trudy, he wasn't initially worried. It was the last days of summer and he assumed she was outside or over at a friend's house enjoying herself. But whe
  24. February 4, 2003 was the day before Sofia Juarez's 5th birthday. The little girl was excited, as any kid would be. It was around 9 pm, and Sofia's grandmother's boyfriend was going to the convenience store. Sofia's mom gave her a dollar to get
  25. On May 26, 1992, 13-year-old Brandy Myers was collecting pledges for her school’s Read-A-Thon in her Phoenix, Arizona neighborhood. She didn’t return, and soon a search commenced. Though the body of a young girl was found two days later— it was
  26. 13-year-old Kristopher Lewis got off the bus with a friend on February 4, 2014. He was only a block away from his house, in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, when his friend last saw him. But Kris never made it home. Kristopher’s mother, Nina C
  27. Episode 71 Toby Anderson16 Year old Toby Eugene Anderson vanished from the Selma, Oregon area in the Fall of 1988.Toby was living with his Uncle, Almer "Billy" Wright, and Billy's children. One day without warning, Billy informed Toby's school
  28. Episode 69 Judith Anne BrownIn 1977, 19 year-old Judith Anne Brown, who went by Judy was trying to improve her mental health situation. college student, and lifelong New York resident, Judy stayed behind when most of her family moved out of sta
  29. Episode 34 Donna Kay Gibson32 year-old mother of four, Donna Kay Gibson, vanished mysteriously from her Louisa, VA home in the middle of the night in February, 1995. Her husband and children awoke to find a blanket on top of some pillows on the
  30. Episode 21 Amanda JonesWhen 26 year-old single Mother, Amanda Jones found out she was pregnant, she confronted the would-be father who wanted nothing to do with the baby, or Amanda. Flash forward to when Amanda was eight and a half months pregn
  31. Episode 13 Jamie LusherSixteen year old James Donald Lusher Jr, better known as Jamie Lusher, vanished while riding his bike someplace between his home in Westfield, MA, and his grandmother's house in Blandford, MA on November 6, 1992. Jamie wa
  32. Episode 10 Randy LeachIn April, 1988 just a week before graduating, Randy Leach, a typical 17 year-old teenager in Linwood, KS went missing after attending a party. Neither Randy, nor his Mom's car that he was driving at the time have ever been
  33. Episode 6 Keith MannOn Mother's day weekend, 1997, Gregory Keith Mann Jr. vanished without a trace after a night out with friends in Wichita Falls, TX. On Saturday night May 10th of that weekend, Gregory, who always went by keith, was last seen
  34. Episode 3: Desirea Ferris 18 Year-Old Desirea Ferris went missing May 2nd, 2017 from a crime-ridden area in South Kansas City, MO. She has not been seen since. Foul Play is suspected, Despite rumors, tips, and promising suspects, Desirea's fami
  35. Zebb Quinn went missing after clocking out of work on January 2, 2000. The details surrounding his disappearance are highly suspicious, and Zebb has never been found. The police have focused on one suspect for two decades, and he has told the p
  36. 14-year-old Max DeVries went missing on a family vacation to Aruba in May 2004. Officials declared that Max was “lost at sea,” but his family believes there was foul play. A 56-year-old man named David Stacey Sr. took Max out on wave runners af
  37. Brandon Swanson went missing after he crashed his car into a ditch on his way home from a party. He called his parents for help, but the phone call ended suddenly when something seemed to surprise or frighten Brandon. Join Mike and Gibby as t
  38. Alicia Hummel went fishing by herself on June 1st, 2015. She kept her friends updated about what she was doing via Snapchats and texts. Less than an hour after her last communication, Alicia was found dead in the Missouri River. Eight years lat
  39. Andrew, Alexander, and Tanner Skelton spent Thanksgiving 2010 with their father as part of a visitation agreement between their parents, who were in the process of getting a divorce. When their mother went to pick them up the next day, they wer
  40. On the morning of October 20th, 2007, Lee Cutler dropped a friend off after spending the night with a group of friends. He was then seen by an employee at a local gas station. Two days later, his car was found almost 200 miles away from home ne
  41. Tammy Leakey disappeared from Verdun, a borough of Montreal, in 1981. Tammy went on an errand to a local grocery store and never returned. Her mother reported her missing, but a local man found Tammy's body in a field along the road about an ho
  42. In March 1956, two brothers and their cousin went missing in rural Alabama after a night of drinking. Decades later, they have never been found, and no one knows for certain what happened to them, although there is suspicion that they were kill
  43. In November 1987, Korrina Lynn Sagers Malinoski, a married mother of three children, went missing from her home in Mount Holly, South Carolina. Less than a year later, Korrina's daughter Annette went missing from the same location. Korrina and
  44. In 1989 two toddlers, Christopher Dansby and Shane Walker, went missing from the Martin Luther King Jr. Towers Playground in Harlem. Their case remains unsolved, and the boys have never been found. There were some other missing children that so
  45. On September 20th, 1988, Tara Calico went for her daily bike ride. She never came home. Thirty-four years later, the disappearance of Tara Calico remains unsolved. Tara was 19 years old when she went missing. She was independent and bright, see
  46. Diane Louise Augat went missing on April 10th, 1998. She was last seen at a few different locations in Hudson, Florida. In the days after Diane went missing, a strange and concerning piece of evidence was found in the location where she was las
  47. On Saturday, October 9th, 1965, 14-year-old Elsie Frost went sailing with some of her fellow classmates from her school's sailing class. The last time she was seen alive, she was walking towards her home. But, Elsie never made it home, and her
  48. Eleven-year-old Ananda Dean went missing on September 17, 2008. She was last seen leaving her school, where she was a sixth-grade student, in Jamaica. The police found some clues when some of her school books were found in two different locatio
  49. In May 2008, Joshua Maddux left his home to go for a walk, something he did often. But this time, Josh never came home. Seven years later, Josh's remains were found inside a chimney in an abandoned cabin in Woodland Park, Colorado, less than a
  50. In December 2011, 20-month-old Ayla disappeared from the city of Waterville Maine, where she was staying with her father Justin DiPietro. The search for Ayla became the largest criminal investigation in Maine history. Justin said that he put Ay
  51. On the Labor Day weekend of 1982, 12-year-old Johnny Gosch disappeared from West Des Moines, Iowa. He was last seen collecting newspapers for his paper route from a paper drop in the early morning. But Johnny never finished the route or made it
  52. In early 2003, 4-year-old Sofia Juarez disappeared from Kennewick in southeast Washington state, where she lived with her large extended family. Sofia was last seen by her mother just before she left the house one evening to go to the store wit
  53. In June 2010, 7-year-old Kyron Horman disappeared from Portland, Oregon. Kyron was last seen by his stepmother after she walked him inside the school to drop off a project for the school science fair. But Kyron never made it to his first class.
  54. In 2006, 17-year-old Candace Hiltz was found murdered in the family home by her mother. Candace's brother James became the prime suspect. James had an extreme anxiety disorder that left him unable to even live in the family home. He lived in a
  55. In 1975, Michelle Wedge was just seven years old when she went missing from the town of Moncton in New Brunswick, Canada. She was playing outside when her family noticed that she was gone. Witnesses came forward and said that she got into a sma
  56. 11-year-old Shannon Paulk disappeared on August 16, 2001 from the Prattville, Al trailer park where she lived. Everyone in the park knew Shannon as a little girl brimming with personality. Her family said that she had never met stranger and she
  57. Ten-year-old Linda Weldy stepped off her school bus on February 24th, 1987, and was never seen alive again. Police believe that she made it to the end of her long driveway before she was taken from her Indiana home. Three weeks later, Linda's b
  58. On April 14th, 1984, a newborn baby boy was found strangled and stabbed in Kerry County, Ireland. The baby became known as Baby John. The ensuing investigation would come to be regarded as one of the most controversial in Ireland's history. The
  59. 16-year-old Kathy Bernhard and 14-year-old George-Ann Formicola disappeared in 1966. School had just let out the two teenagers headed off on the evening of June 25th to go swimming at the creek not far from their home. That was the last time th
  60. 16-year-old Kathy Bernhard and 14-year-old George-Ann Formicola disappeared in 1966. School had just let out the two teenagers headed off on the evening of June 25th to go swimming at the creek not far from their home. That was the last time th
  61. We are headed to Alaska to discuss two mysterious disappearances that occurred within the same family. In 1999, 15-year-old Michael Palmer disappeared while riding his bike with his friends after attending a party. In 2010, his older brother Ch
  62. We are headed to Alaska to discuss two mysterious disappearances that occurred within the same family. In 1999, 15-year-old Michael Palmer disappeared while riding his bike with his friends after attending a party. In 2010, his older brother Ch
  63. 16-year-old Cathy Moulton disappeared on September 24, 1971 from Portland, Maine. She was last seen visiting with some friends at a music store. She had plans to attend a dance that night but didn't make it home for dinner with her family. As i
  64. 20-year-old Angela Marie Hammond's life was just starting to take shape. She went to college during the day and worked at night. She and her boyfriend, Rob Shafer, were due to have their first child together. But, on the night of April 4th, 199
  65. In 1990, Jan Cornell and her 11-year-old daughter, Robin Cornell, were living in a townhouse with Jan's friend 32-year-old Lisa Story. On May 10, of that year, Jan returned to her Cape Coral, FL home from her boyfriend's house to find her daugh
  66. In 1950, Helen Brach married into the famous Brach candy business family. After her husband died in 1970, Helen was worth over 30 million dollars. She spent her time helping to save animals and created the Helen V Brach foundation in 1974. In F
  67. 16-year-old Vickie Stout and her 14-year-old half-sister Carla Atkins were more than sisters. They were best friends who did everything together in their hometown of Dover, Tennessee. On September 17, 1980, Vickie and Carly got off their school
  68. 16-year-old Vickie Stout and her 14-year-old half-sister Carla Atkins were more than sisters. They were best friends who did everything together in their hometown of Dover, Tennessee. On September 17, 1980, Vickie and Carly got off their school
  69. Tegan Lane’s entire existence was kept a secret.   No one knew she had even been born until 3 years later when a social worker accidentally stumbled across her birth records.   Her mother Keli had kept her entire 9 month pregnancy and birth wit
  70. The murder of Nicole Fitts left a lot of unanswered questions.  The most important one for her family is, where is Nicole’s daughter, Arianna? Arianna was 2 and a half when her mother was killed, and she went missing without a trace. While tips
  71. Relisha Rudd loved arts and crafts. The 8-year-old was a great big sister to her brothers before everyone in her world lost track of her. In 2014, she was living in the DC General homeless shelter with her mother, stepdad, and brothers. The for
  72. It may be the most famous case in Irish true crime. On a rainy Dublin night in December 2000, Trevor Deely left his Christmas work party and swung by his office for an umbrella. It was there he met the man in black. Sponsors:Angi ListButcher
  73. We go through what might have happened in the Trevor Deely case, and Brett shares his explosive conspiracy theory.Sponsors:Allegiance GoldAngi.comEarth Breeze -- EARTHBREEZE.com/prosecutors for 40% off!PlutoTVI've Had It Podcast
  74. Patti Adkins left her job on the Fourth of July weekend excited about a vacation with her boyfriend. But when workers returned to her job, she didn't. And her boyfriend claimed they weren't in a relationship at all. What happened to Patti Adkin
  75. What was meant to be a fun evening out at the baseball fields with friends, would end in tragedy for 6-year-old Morgan Nick, leaving her mother Colleen to spend a decades long search to find her missing daughter.  Now 28 years later, with the p
  76. Donna left her family's residence in Lexington, North Carolina on March 18, 1981 at approximately 8:30 p.m. She was planning to walk to a friend's home nearby. She was last seen walking on Hemstead Street. Donna contacted her friend shortly the
  77. Sarah Kinslow, from Greenville, Texas, disappeared when she was just fourteen years old. On the morning of May 1, 2001, Sarah was dropped off at school, which was the last time her family ever saw her. At the end of the school day, her parents

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