In May 2011, Jim Pitzen and Amy Fry-Pitzen dropped off their 6-year-old son Timmothy at school. When Jim returned later to pick him up, he was told by staff that Amy had already done so, hours earlier. But Jim couldn’t reach Amy. Days later, her body was discovered — and there was no sign of Timmothy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On September 26th 2014, students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College traveled to an annual march in Mexico City. They were on their way to protest against discrimination — and were stopped by open fire in Iguala. Six people were killed. Forty-three vanished. Who were the attackers? What happened to the missing? All eyes were on the Mexican government for answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
On Labor Day weekend in 1974, a family of four goes camping in their favorite spot in Oregon. When they don’t show up for a scheduled dinner, authorities are called in to investigate. Only, they don’t find any evidence of foul play. Not until months later, when they uncover a horrific scene miles away from the family’s campsite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On March 26th 1991, a father in South Korea gets a phone call informing him that his son never showed up for taekwondo class. He figures his son lost track of time playing with his friends in the mountains nearby. The reality is that all five boys are gone, and won’t ever be seen alive again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sixteen years ago, a Jordanian-Canadian woman vanished from her family’s farm. To say her case ran cold would be misleading: There was no case, because no one reported her missing for nine years. Today, we’re sharing an interview with Habiba Nosheen — journalist and host of Gimlet’s Conviction (season 3) podcast — about the disappearance of Nuseiba Hasan, and how a cryptic email revealed an unbelievable story of tragedy and mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...
In 1980, 21-year-old Cherita Thomas disappears after the car she’s driving breaks down. Police suspect she becomes the victim of a racially motivated hate crime, but with no physical evidence, her case runs cold. Twenty years later, a cadaver dog finds bone fragments on a suspect’s property. Only, they don’t belong to Cherita. What happens next affects not only Cherita’s case, but dozens of cases across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
In 1988, Keith Reinhard uproots his life to investigate a friend’s disappearance. Eventually, he starts believing his friend didn’t just disappear — he was murdered. Keith tells his theory to nearly everybody he knows. Then Keith disappears, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Marita Verón was a 23-year-old mother who disappeared in Argentina in 2002 while on her way to a hospital appointment. When police wouldn’t help, her parents investigated on their own. What they discovered was horrifying: Marita had been kidnapped by sex traffickers. Marita’s mother set up a foundation in Marita’s honor to offer legal, developmental, and rehabilitation services to trafficking survivors. You can find more information on it here: fundacionmariadelosangeles.org Learn more about you...
In the 1980s, Bruno Manser was a Swiss activist who moved to Borneo to live amongst the indigenous Penan. He assimilated into the tribe, helping them fight against logging companies encroaching on their land. He returned to Switzerland and, for many years, tried to bring attention to the Penan cause. In 2000, he returned to the jungle and was never seen again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
The Isle of Wight has a dual identity. It’s a tourist destination with a pristine reputation. And it’s a small island where everybody knows everyone. So when a 16-year-old local vanishes one night in 1996, his parents are sure that whatever happened to him, it didn’t go unnoticed. Only, information proves to be scarce. And it seems the island’s criminal underbelly has kept it that way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
After telling her sister she was scared of her boyfriend, Crystal Rogers disappeared. For months, her parents Tommy and Sherry worked with the Bardstown police to build a case against her boyfriend. Then, 16 months after she was last seen, her father Tommy was murdered. Both crimes are still unsolved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When Felipe Santos gets into the back of a patrol car, his brothers assume he’s being arrested for driving without a license. But they never hear from him again. Three months later, Terrance Williams goes missing under similar circumstances. And the sheriff’s deputy involved in both of their cases can’t get his story straight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 1967, two indigenous men are prospecting for uranium in Saskatchewan when they vanish from their lakeside camp. Canadian authorities determine they got lost and died in an accident — case closed. But their closest friends are convinced otherwise: James Brady and Abbie Halkett were murdered. Parcasters, we have exciting news! Our first book hits bookshelves July 12th. Don’t miss this chilling summer read that takes you deep into the darkest sides of human nature. Learn more at www.parcast.com/...
George and Jennifer Smith were young newlyweds when they set off on a Mediterranean cruise in 2005. Just days into their honeymoon, George went missing. Despite evidence pointing to foul play, no one has ever been convicted in his disappearance. Countdown to the CULTS book release! Parcast’s first book hits shelves July 12th. It’s an unflinching exploration of shame, secrecy, power, exploitation, and destruction. Learn more at www.parcast.com/cults ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...
When a teenage girl goes missing in Italy, her disappearance is linked to a Turkish assassin, a mobster, a bank scandal, and the Vatican itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the late 1950s, a wealthy, well-connected couple take flight from their home in El Paso, Texas. The question of whether they are still alive, and if they simply wanted to disappear — and did — drags on for years, until 1984. That’s when a witness comes forward with a statement that changes everything. Parcasters, we have exciting news! Our first book hits bookshelves July 12th. Don’t miss this chilling summer read that takes you deep into the darkest sides of human nature. Learn more and grab...
A senior class celebration turned into every parent’s worst nightmare after 18-year-old Natalee Holloway left her hotel in Aruba and never returned. She was last seen by her classmates leaving a bar with three men she’d only just met on the island. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the 1920s a married Harvard professor takes the unconventional advice of his physician and begins an affair with a younger man. The arrangement seems to work happily for everyone involved. But in the summer of 1933, on a tiny island off the coast of Ireland, Arthur Kingsley Porter vanishes. Most of the evidence points to one clear conclusion, yet Kingsley’s story has only grown more complicated with time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
When a pregnant postal worker goes missing in Chicago, the people around her do everything right. Her parents drop everything to find her. Her community bands together. Even her employer launches an investigation. But nearly four years later, her family is still fighting for answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Some people say it's the day the country lost its innocence. The three Beaumont children went to the beach in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1966 and never came home. They disappeared in front of hundreds of people. Over 50 years later, there may finally be a timeline on what happened that day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A three-year-old girl was snatched during her family’s vacation to Portugal in 2007. Her disappearance launched a media frenzy that’s fueled years of questionable leads, false allegations, and devastating conspiracy theories. Will we ever know what happened to Madeleine McCann? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 1995, the 27-year-old guitarist and songwriter for the Manic Street Preachers vanishes just before a scheduled press tour. Six months later, a lead investigator believes he likely died by suicide. Those closest to him aren’t so sure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
He was a spy, then a mogul, and now — a mystery. Jim Thompson vanished in 1967 after hiking into the Malaysian jungle, leaving everyone to wonder: Had his past come back to haunt him? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the early 1930s, a woman claiming to be a French baroness arrives on a tiny island in the Galapagos. But by 1935, Eloise von Wagner Bosquet and three of the island’s other residents are dead or gone under mysterious circumstances. Only one woman is left to account for the disappearances. Can her story be trusted? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 1970s Canada, Art Williams grows a drug empire by always staying one step ahead of the authorities. Then he disappears. Did he stage a plane crash to fake his death, and take his ex-wife Margaret with him? Or was she left behind, and caught in the crosshairs of his dangerous associates? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When Kathie Durst vanishes in January 1982, her friends immediately suspect her millionaire husband, Robert Durst. But Robert evades police scrutiny, and Kathie’s case goes cold. It takes a false police tip, an HBO documentary, and nearly four decades to piece together what happened to the 29 year old. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A wealthy widow known as Chicago’s “Candy Lady” goes missing in the late 1970s — potentially in a scheme devised by the cruelest players of the city’s horse mafia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The infant son of a world-famous aviator was kidnapped and held for ransom in 1932. The case makes headlines almost immediately, but months pass before the Lindberghs discover what happened to their boy. When they do, a law is introduced that impacts kidnapping cases for decades afterward — and not always for the better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Following up from last week’s episode, Sarah welcomes Julie Murray onto the podcast for a conversation about her sister Maura – who she was before she disappeared, what their family has been through over the last two decades, and how plausible the most popular theories really are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Eighteen years ago, 21-year-old Maura Murray crashed her car into a snowbank off a two-lane highway in New Hampshire. It takes just minutes from when she was last seen for her to disappear completely. But why was she on Route 112 at all that night? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
