Disappearances
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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William and Margaret Patterson
37 min
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Natalee Holloway
38 min
78
Arthur Kingsley Porter
42 min
79
Kierra Coles
33 min
80
The Beaumont Children
34 min
81
Madeleine McCann
45 min
82
Richey Edwards
40 min
83
Jim Thompson
32 min
84
Eloise von Wagner Bosquet
36 min
85
Art & Margaret Williams
31 min
86
Kathleen Durst
37 min
87
Helen Brach
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.
34 min
88
Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
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.
34 min
89
An Interview with Julie Murray
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.
34 min
90
Maura Murray
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.
35 min
91
Ray Gricar
A respected DA on the brink of retirement goes missing in early April 2005. Police find his car, then his laptop, then his laptop’s hard drive, all months apart. But never a body. Was there foul play?
28 min
92
Sean Flynn & Dana Stone
In the spring of 1970, two American photojournalists go missing in the middle of a warzone. Despite multiple efforts to uncover their fate, including a failed rescue mission and a psychic reading, their whereabouts remain a mystery.
28 min
93
Henry Baltimore Jr.
It was almost 50 years ago when Michigan State junior Henry Baltimore was robbed at gunpoint at his apartment by an acquaintance. Weeks later, just before Henry was going to testify at the trial, he disappeared.
27 min
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Bas Jan Ader
On a summer day in 1975, conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader steps onto a sailboat and embarks on a trans-Atlantic voyage. He never reaches his intended destination. But did he suffer a maritime tragedy — or stage another art installation?
26 min
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Stacy Ann Peterson
In Chicago 2007, the 23-year-old wife of a police officer goes missing. Her family immediately suspects foul play by her husband, Drew Peterson. But Drew is never convicted of a crime — at least, not in Stacy’s case.
39 min
96
Peter Winston
In the late 1970s, a famous American chess prodigy disappeared during a record-breaking blizzard in New York City. Today we go into the mind and the mystery of Peter Winston.
30 min
97
Jean Spangler
When a single mother vanishes after a night out in L.A., the media runs wild with speculation, overshadowing the tragedy of her story with rumors and hearsay.
32 min
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Aubrey Dameron and Anthonette Cayedito
Indigenous women are murdered at a rate ten times higher than any other demographic, but the crimes against them are often ignored.
37 min
99
The Martin Family
It was a Sunday afternoon in 1958 when Ken and Barbara Martin took a drive with their three daughters and never returned home.
36 min
100
Megumi Yokota
Megumi was a 13-year-old Japanese school kid when she disappeared — apparently, without a trace. But decades later, the leads finally started to roll in.
32 min