Podcast
Disappearances
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In 2020, after years spent searching for answers, Sarah Turney used social media to help bring justice to her sister Alissa’s nearly two decades-long disappearance. Now she’s teaming up with Parcast to explore the many reasons people disappear and the impact their absences can have on those left behind. Disappearances is a Spotify Original. Catch a new episode every Thursday, free on Spotify.
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Introducing: Stolen Season 3
Apr 26, 202400:29:43Tap to summarizeViolence. Retaliation. Disappearances. The Navajo Nation is 27,000 square miles of remote terrain with just over 200 tribal police officers. This season on Stolen, Connie Walker’s investigation into the cases of two missing women leads her on a search for justice in a place where people say you can get away with murder.To listen to the entire season, search for “Stolen” on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Shaping Advocacy: Charley Ross, Amber Hagerman, and Adam Walsh
Oct 19, 202300:46:14Tap to summarizeSarah takes a look at three cases that changed the landscape of missing person investigations. Charley Ross disappeared from Germantown, Pennsylvania in June 1874. Amber Hagerman was abducted from a parking lot in Arlington, Texas in 1996. Adam Walsh went missing from a Sears department store in July 1981. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Frederick Valentich
Oct 12, 202300:34:43Tap to summarize20-year-old pilot Fred Valentich disappears during a flight over Australia’s Bass Strait in 1978 — in the midst of a radio transmission. Effectively narrating the moment of his disappearance, Fred says he sees something flying over him at great speeds…something he believes is no ordinary aircraft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Susan Walsh
Oct 5, 202300:32:20Tap to summarizeIn 1996, a doting mother and budding journalist named Susan Walsh left her home and never returned. Her career ambitions had taken her into some underground worlds filled with rich characters. Was any of it connected to her disappearance? Or did investigators draw connections that were never there? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Kristen Modafferi
Sep 28, 202300:33:08Tap to summarizeWhen Kristen Modafferi disappeared in California just weeks after turning 18, her case exposed a gap in the system that her family’s been working to close ever since.If you have any information regarding Kristen’s case, please contact your local FBI field office or the Oakland Police Department at (510) 238-3775. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Frank Matthews
Sep 21, 202300:36:26Tap to summarizeToday, I want to introduce you to a man sometimes known as “Black Caesar” and who may very well be America’s first Black kingpin. His name is Frank Matthews, and after building one of the largest drug empires the world has ever seen, he fled the law in 1973 — and has been a wanted fugitive ever since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The Sodder Children
Sep 14, 202300:32:37Tap to summarizeHi listeners! This week we’re sharing an episode from Sarah’s podcast Voices for Justice. We’ll be back next week with a new episode of Disappearances.At around 1:00 am on December 25, 1945, Jennie Sodder woke up to smoke pouring into her bedroom. She woke up her husband, George, and they started evacuating the house of their nine children.By the time the fire took over the Sodder residence, only Jennie, George, and four of their children made it outside safely.George and two of his sons frantically tried to get into the house to save the remaining children, but they couldn’t. When George went to fill up a bucket with water to start extinguishing the flames, the water was frozen, when he went to grab their ladder to get his children from the top story, the ladder was missing; when he went to drive his trucks to the second story window, neither would start despite having worked just the day before. And when they tried to call the fire department for help, no one responded for hours.The only thing the family could do was watch as their burned to the ground.Hours later, after the smoldering ashes were put out, a group of people began searching for the children’s remains, but nothing was found. Not a single bone was found in the ashes.The fire was quickly ruled an accident, and investigators told the family the children’s bodies had burned up completely in the fire, leaving nothing of them behind, not even their bones.But between the mishaps, while trying to put out the fire, threats made against the family before the fire, and the strange behavior of authorities throughout the investigation, Jennie and George Sodder refused to believe five of their children were killed in the home. They were convinced their children didn’t die in the fire, and they spent the rest of their lives trying to prove it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Morgan Nick
Sep 7, 202300:37:27Tap to summarizeHi listeners! This week we’re sharing an episode from Sarah’s podcast Voices for Justice. We’ll be back in two weeks with a new episode of Disappearances.On June 9, 1995, Colleen Nick was invited to attend a little league baseball game with a few friends in Alma, Arkansas. She took her 6-year-old daughter Morgan Nick with her. Near the end of the game, Morgan went to play with other children. She was only out of her mother’s sight for a few minutes… Morgan has been missing ever since.Possibly the largest lead in her case was the sighting of a man in a red truck near Morgan shortly before she disappeared. But that lead sat for 26 years until investigators found some damning evidence in what they believe may be the red truck seen next to Morgan the night she went missing.Morgan is white, with naturally blonde hair and blue eyes. When she went missing, she was approximately 4 feet tall and weighed 55lbs. As of recording this episode, she would now be 34 years old.Anyone with information about the disappearance of Morgan Nick is asked to call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST, or 1-800-843-5678.For more information about the podcast and the cases discussed, visit VoicesforJusticePodcast.comDon't forget to follow me on social media under Voices for Justice Podcast & SarahETurneyThe introduction music used in Voices for Justice is Thread of Clouds by Blue Dot Sessions. Outro music is Melancholic Ending by Soft and Furious. The track used for ad transitions is Pinky by Blue Dot Sessions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst
Aug 31, 202300:40:24Tap to summarizeIn 1974, Patty Hearst is a college sophomore and heir to a media fortune. But by February, she's a kidnapping victim—abducted by a militant political group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. She'll remain with them for over a year. By the end of it all, America will wonder whether she was an unwilling hostage...or a loyal recruit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transcribe →Joan Risch
Aug 24, 202300:32:12Tap to summarizeWhen a housewife disappeared from her suburban home in 1961, she left behind a mystery that's unresolved to this day. The bloody scene in her kitchen suggested murder — until investigators started digging into her history. Could Joan Risch have faked her own death? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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