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Hey, listeners, this is Matt Frederick from iHeart

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Podcasts. Have you heard about the new true

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crime podcast from the team behind Up

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and Vanished. It's a brand new series

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called Status Untraced. What

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if, while traveling abroad, your friend

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simply vanished? Who would you call?

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What would you do? In twenty sixteen,

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that's what the friends of Justin Alexander

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were faced with. An adventurer

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and world traveler, Justin disappeared

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on a trek in the Himalayan Mountains. His

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friends and family took action. They

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flew to India to organize searches.

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They found evidence and an arrest

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was made, but shortly after the

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main suspect was found dead in his

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cell. The case was called for years

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until now. Dive deep

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into the investigation with host Liam

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Luxen As the podcast investigation

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uncovers the strange events surrounding

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Justin's disappearance. This

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is Status Untraced. Check

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out the trailer one

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Guy.

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He went missing for thirty years,

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Why he was hiding himself, why

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he disappeared?

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Nobody knows.

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At the northern edge of India, attracting

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thousands of tourists every year is

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the Parvati Valley. Many

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come for the beauty of the Himalayas. Others

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to party, but then there are

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some drawn in search of enlightenment and

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this place changes them.

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There are stories from that part of the world where they'll

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say, like, oh, the person didn't come back

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because they didn't want to come back, just

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to create the story and the scene through

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all this stuff along the river, and then

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he just vanished. The

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phenomenon called India syndrome

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could be choked up to the valley spiritual allure.

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But something else is going on here. There's

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a string of disappearances, many

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foreigners, and nearly all of

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the cases unsolved. A

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Polish national is missing, Odeta

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Houton at twenty four from Camp.

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We merctlessly beaten to set hate,

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befriended a baba shortly after,

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and disappeared.

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That valley is beautiful and enchanting,

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but it's very dangerous. Nefarious

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things happened there. I

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fell upon one of these cases of an

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American world traveler gone missing. The

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circumstances of his disappearance were

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suspicious, so I flew halfway

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around the world in search of answers, and

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what I found I could have never imagined.

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You could read his posts about the guru.

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He knew this guy was bad news.

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The guy getting hung out of nowhere

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makes you go, there's something

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else you think.

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He's like drobbing them in and taking the stuff.

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He's basically muggering. A

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new investigated podcast from the team behind

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Up and Vanished. This is

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Datus Untraced. Available

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now Listen for free on Apple Podcasts

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or wherever you get your podcasts.

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From Tenderfoot TV. Up and Vanished

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Presents Untraced Available

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now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio

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app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

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you get your favorite shows.