She worked for a real estate agency and often met with wealthy clients at upscale properties. But one afternoon in July of 1986, Suzy Lamplugh went to an appointment and never returned. Decades later, police strongly suspect who was responsible for her disappearance. There's just not enough evidence to bring charges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In August 2010, Ben McDaniel disappeared after diving into an underwater cave system in Florida called Vortex Spring. Rescue divers spent days looking below the surface and concluded that he was no longer in the water. While it's likely that Ben died somewhere within the caves, some think he may still be alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After the breakup of a long-term relationship and moving out of his home, Allen Ross sought direction in his life. He found it in a spiritual leader in Oklahoma named Linda Greene. As Allen spent more time visiting her, he became more withdrawn from his friends and family. Until all of a sudden, he was gone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
He's an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and the business magnate behind China’s Alibaba Group. Jack Ma is also outspoken. In October 2020, he gave a speech to executives from around the world that was not well-received by the Chinese government. Within a few weeks, he was nowhere to be found. Months later, he resurfaced virtually, but nobody knows where he went or why he left. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
In February 1959, nine people disappeared while hiking through the Ural Mountains. When a search team reached the campsite, the tents still had clothes inside, and footprints showed the hikers moved away from the camp in a single file line. Their bodies were found over the next few months, but with no evidence as to what happened. This week, Sarah joins Carter for a special crossover episode with Cold Cases . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
It was early July, 2001 when 10-year-old Tionda Bradley and her 3-year-old sister Diamond disappeared from their apartment. The only clue left behind was a note allegedly written by Tionda. Their mother, Tracey, and other family members strongly believe that somebody in the community must have heard or seen something. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LeLanie Thompson left her son's house in El Cajon late on the evening of August 29th, 2015. The following morning, Elijah "Bear" Diaz didn't respond to her texts. When she went to his house in the afternoon to check on him, he was gone. He hasn't been seen since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Listeners, this week we’re sharing the trailer for a new miniseries from Solved Murders. It takes us back to the Wild West, and follows the exploits of a legendary U.S. Deputy Marshal. Listen to Bass Reeves: No Master But Duty, guest hosted by Darnell Ishmel, free and only on Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On April 8th, 2022, 18-year-old Debanhi Escobar left for a night out with some girlfriends. She went to a few parties in different locations before leaving alone with a rideshare driver. For an unknown reason, she got out of the car and refused to get back inside. The driver left Debanhi on the side of the road. She would never make it back home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After emigrating from Czechoslovakia, Thomas Riha obtained American citizenship and even fought for the US during the Korean War. He eventually went on to teach Russian History at the University of Colorado Boulder. But in the early hours of March 15th, 1969, he left a friend's birthday party and was never seen again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Not only was Eddie Aikau a local surfer and an international icon, he was also the first lifeguard at one of Hawaii's most dangerous beaches. It's estimated he saved over 500 people. So when the Hokule' he was in capsized, it was no surprise that he would risk everything to save his crew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Between 1941 and 1945, two-thirds of all Jewish people living in Europe were murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Families were often torn apart, with survivors assuming their loved ones were killed. Today, we focus on just a few of the thousands of stories of people looking for answers about relatives who disappeared during the Holocaust. For more information on the Holocaust, we recommend checking out ushmm.org , yadvashem.org , and drk-suchdienst.de . Learn more about your ad choic...
A week after a category 5 hurricane makes landfall in the U.S. Virgin Islands, a 32-year-old teacher named Hannah Upp goes missing. The search for her is complicated by two things: a second hurricane that hits the islands shortly after the first, and the strong possibility that Hannah may be in a fugue state — a form of amnesia that can last for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When a teenage dance teacher goes missing in O’ahu, over a thousand volunteers show up to canvas the island. But her family will wait years to even come close to understanding what happened to her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The daughter of the infamous Aaron Burr boards a schooner in 1812 heading to New York from South Carolina. A week passes and the ship never arrives. Two centuries later, the mystery of her fate still lingers. 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
Listeners, enjoy a year-end replay of our episode on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart: On May 21 1937, Amelia Earhart was a world-famous pilot about to embark on a record-setting flight. But just a little over a month later, en route to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, she vanished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Just days before Christmas 1974, three young girls — ages 9, 14 and 17 — go to the mall to do some last-minute gift shopping. Only, they never return. Police believe they’ve run away and are slow to investigate, forcing the girls’ families to mount their own search. A cryptic letter and a phone call are the only real clues they have to the girls’ fates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
One morning in May 2016, 19-year-old Logan Schiendelman tells his grandma he’s had an epiphany. But she never finds out what it is. Because shortly after, Logan’s car is found abandoned on the side of the I-5 in Tumwater, Washington. No one has a clue where he might’ve gone. And as police retrace his movements, his disappearance only gets more confounding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The real Dr. Gonzo — the man who inspired the legendary character in Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” — was a writer and attorney who advocated for Chicano civil rights in the ‘60s. Zeta, as he was known, mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Mazatlan, Mexico in 1974. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Over the ages, arsenic has had many lives — beauty fad, household product, medical prescription… and weapon of choice wielded by killers everywhere from Alabama to ancient Rome. Brine your turkey, knead your dough, and listen to our Thanksgiving Special on the regime-changing, assassination-aiding King of Poisons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In Australia, a 24-year-old woman left on a road trip with three friends — and never came home. It took years for an official inquest to state what her family already knew: when it came to Monique Clubb’s disappearance, police gave up too soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A leading climate scientist, once renowned internationally for his work on nuclear winter theory, vanished in Madrid in the mid-1980s. Vladimir Alexandrov made friends everywhere he went; his name was, at the very least, known by some of the most powerful figures in the American and Soviet governments. Yet his disappearance wasn’t officially looked into for months. When a clue to his fate does publically surface, it forces the world to ask: Was Vladimir actually kidnapped by the CIA? Learn more ...
It was a case that defied expectation at every turn, and with each new development, the stakes never felt higher. In 1981, a 13-year-old girl vanished from her home in Seaside, California, after her step-father physically assaulted her. Her mother claimed for decades afterward that Mary ran away that night. Her siblings believed she was murdered. Uncovering the truth would mean putting the whole family — including Mary herself — under the microscope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...
Around 3pm on a February afternoon in 2017, Derrick German drove to a trailhead in Delphi, Indiana. He was there to pick up his 14-year-old daughter Libby and her best friend, Abby Williams, after their hike. But the girls never showed. This is a two-part episode from your host Sarah Turney’s other podcast, Voices for Justice. Listen to part 1 here, then find part 2 on Voices for Justice . We’ll be back with a new episode of Disappearances next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podca...
It’s the summer of 1992, Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall have just graduated high school. They spend the night celebrating and make plans to go to a water park with a third friend the next day. But when tomorrow comes, Suzie and Stacy are nowhere to be found. And Suzie’s mother, Sherrill Levitt, is gone too. Foul play is suspected immediately. But despite no shortage of suspects — and thousands of tips — their disappearance remains unsolved. This is an episode from Sarah Turney’s other podcast, ...
For 19-year-old Tyarra Williams, the Stoneybrook Apartments in Greensboro, North Carolina were truly home. It’s where her mother and brother lived, where her boyfriend lived, and where she finally felt a sense of independence living with her grandmother. But on the evening of January 7th, 2016, it was also the last place any of them would see Tyarra alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 1991, Ben Needham is a toddler living with his mom on an island in Greece. They’re surrounded by family and crystal blue waters — a true paradise. But that summer, Ben disappears. In the decades since, and as recently as 2021, reports have come in from people claiming they’ve spotted him, or know where he is. As of yet, none of them have panned out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Every year, the beach at Byron Bay in Australia is decorated for a vigil. People gather to honor an 18-year-old boy who was technically never their own. Théo Hayez was a backpacker from Belgium who disappeared in 2019. His last known movements were detailed through GPS data and cell phone records — almost down to the minute. And yet this agonizing mystery remains, for now, unsolved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
On May 21 1937, Amelia Earhart was a world-famous pilot about to embark on a record-setting flight. But just a little over a month later, en route to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, she vanished. The mystery of her fate, and that of her co-pilot Fred Noonan, endured for decades — until a constellation of credible information formed a picture of their tragic final days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...
