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Hunting 4 Answers: Unfinished Business: Mary Ann Johnson · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hunting for Answers is a production of the Black Effect
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  Speaker 1: Podcast Network and iHeartRadio. Welcome to Hunting for Answers, a
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  Speaker 1: true crime podcast. I'm your host, Hunter and today's case
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  Speaker 1: takes us into the unsolved disappearance of a California woman
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  Speaker 1: who seemed to just vanish into thin air just days
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  Speaker 1: before Christmas in nineteen ninety four, a woman whose final
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  Speaker 1: days were shrouded in threat and mystery, and a woman
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  Speaker 1: who knew she was in danger. This is the story
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  Speaker 1: of mary Anne Johnson. Marianne was born on July twenty first,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty nine.
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  Speaker 2: She was just.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty four years old when her life took a terrifying turn.
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  Speaker 1: In the days leading up to her disappearance, she received
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  Speaker 1: a visit from two men, men sent to do her harm.
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  Speaker 1: They had been hired for one purpose, to break her
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  Speaker 1: legs for a payout of eight hundred dollars, but instead
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  Speaker 1: of following through, they issued her a warning instead. But
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  Speaker 1: who had sent them and why was Maryanne targeting? They
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  Speaker 1: never said why, but Marianne was left with a gut
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  Speaker 1: wrenching fear that danger might be close by. On December nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, Marianne left her job at Robinson's May
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  Speaker 1: Department store in Los Angeles. She told coworkers she was
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  Speaker 1: meeting her a strange husband, Andrew Johnson. The following day,
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  Speaker 1: but when police questioned Andrew, his story didn't match up.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed they had spoken that day but had no
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  Speaker 1: plans to meet. Were they reconciling after their separation in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three or was there something else lying beneath
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  Speaker 1: the surface? The Johnsons weren't just former spouses. They were
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  Speaker 1: business partners. They co owned Louisiana West, a restaurant in Vanuy's, California,
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  Speaker 1: which had closed down just before Marianne disappeared. Was this
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  Speaker 1: a connection? A week after she was last seen, a
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  Speaker 1: disturbing discovery was made. Marianne's black nineteen eighty eight Chevrolet
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  Speaker 1: Corvette was found abandoned in the restaurant's parking lot. Her
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  Speaker 1: keys were still inside, the doors were locked, but Marianne
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  Speaker 1: was nowhere in sight. More than three decades have passed
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  Speaker 1: and still no witnesses, no name, suspects, and no answers.
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  Speaker 1: Yet the eerie circumstances surrounding her disappearance still remain a mystery.
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  Speaker 1: At the time she vanished, Marianne Johnson stood five feet
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  Speaker 1: seven inches tall, weighing one hundred and fifty pounds. She
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  Speaker 1: had reddish brown hair, brown eyes, and pierced ears. What
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  Speaker 1: she was last seen wearing is unknown, along with any
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  Speaker 1: X ray rects. Today, mary Anne would be eighty five
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  Speaker 1: years old. Anyone with information about mary Anne Johnson's case
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  Speaker 1: should contact the Los Angeles Police Department Adult Missing Persons
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  Speaker 1: Unit or their local authorities. Their contact information, including the
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  Speaker 1: agency case number, can be found in the description box below.
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