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Midday Missing - Christopher Bush & Franklin Gottshalk · True Crime and Wine Time

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, So today we are getting into the case
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Speaker 1: of Christopher Bush. He was a two year old boy
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Speaker 1: who vanished from a Germantown neighborhood in Sorry, guys, my
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Speaker 1: computer just flicked at me in April fifth, nineteen seventy five.
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Speaker 1: And guys, it is still a very perplexing unsolved mystery
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Speaker 1: for the city of Philadelphia because despite extensive searches and investigations,
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Speaker 1: Christopher has never been found. Guys, think about that he
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Speaker 1: went missing when he was two years old in nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy five. I was five in nineteen seventy five. That
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Speaker 1: is a long time for a family to wonder what
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Speaker 1: happened to their loved one, especially Ugh, that's a young child,
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Speaker 1: and his disappearance continues to haunt his family and the
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Speaker 1: community because, guys, we have to stop and think back
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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five, we did not have the technology
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Speaker 1: that we have now today. All the CCT cameras, the
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Speaker 1: door ring bells, you know, social media. We didn't have
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Speaker 1: all of that. So Christopher was living with his mother,
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Speaker 1: Gwendolen and his three older sisters in Philadelphia when their
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Speaker 1: lives were turned upside down by a devastating fire in
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Speaker 1: March of nineteen seventy five. The fire destroyed their home,
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Speaker 1: leaving the family without a place to live and forcing
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Speaker 1: them to rely on the kindness of relatives and friends
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Speaker 1: for shelter. Gwendolen and her three daughters went to stay
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Speaker 1: with Gwendolen's parents elsewhere in the city, while Christopher was
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Speaker 1: placed in the care of a woman named Patricia Warwick.
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Speaker 1: Patricia was twenty six years old at the time, and
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Speaker 1: she has been described as a friend, neighbor, and babysitter
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Speaker 1: to the Bush family. This was not some random person, okay.
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Speaker 1: It was during this period of upheaval and uncertainty that
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Speaker 1: Patricia offered to take care of Christopher while Gwendolen searched
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Speaker 1: for a new home and attempted to reap their lives.
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Speaker 1: On the morning of April fifth, nineteen seventy five, Patricia
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Speaker 1: took Christopher out in her maroon nineteen sixty six Ford
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Speaker 1: Station wagon, and according to her, she drove to a
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Speaker 1: deli located near the intersection of Chew Avenue in Maryland
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Speaker 1: Street in the Germantown area. Now at approximately ten am.
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Speaker 1: She parked the car, and she said she left Christopher
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Speaker 1: inside while she went into the store to make a purchase.
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Speaker 1: She claimed that the car doors were locked and that
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Speaker 1: Christopher though only two years old, was capable of unlocking
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Speaker 1: them if prompted. Guys, I'm guessing I don't know. Back then,
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Speaker 1: maybe we didn't have car seats. I don't remember car
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Speaker 1: seats being a thing back in the seventies, So maybe
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Speaker 1: he was just seat belted in. I'm not even sure
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Speaker 1: cars I had seat belts then. I think they did.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But Patricia stated that she was inside
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Speaker 1: the store for about ten minutes and that when she
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Speaker 1: returned to the car, Christopher was gone. The only trace
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Speaker 1: of him left behind was his small cowboy hat. Patricia
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Speaker 1: said she searched the parking lot and the surrounding area,
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Speaker 1: but there was no sign of the toddler. Guys. What
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Speaker 1: I also found interesting, I could not find whether or
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Speaker 1: not the car was still locked when she got back
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Speaker 1: to it, or if it was unlocked. That's a question
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Speaker 1: that I kind of want to know. Now. After searching
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Speaker 1: for an hour, she did contact the police. Now, the
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Speaker 1: disappearance of Christopher Bush sparked, as you can imagine, an intense, extensive,
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Speaker 1: intense search by law enforcement and local residents. Authorities combed
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Speaker 1: the area, questioning witnesses and following up on leads, but Guys,
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Speaker 1: they were unable to uncover in any concrete evidence regarding
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Speaker 1: Christopher's fate. Guys, the mystery of how a young child
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Speaker 1: could vanish without a trace and broad daylight continues to
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Speaker 1: baffle investigators, because, as I have said many of times,
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Speaker 1: there's not aliens that come and just suck them up.
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Speaker 1: But back then there wasn't the cameras outside of businesses.
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Speaker 1: Lady and Gray just said in the chat she doesn't
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Speaker 1: remember using seat belts during the seventies and that we
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Speaker 1: just bounced around the back seat. Okay, that was my
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Speaker 1: memory too. I just didn't know if it was different
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Speaker 1: for two year olds. I don't know. Now. Several theories
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Speaker 1: have emerged over all of these years, but none have
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Speaker 1: led to a resolution. Some speculate that Christopher may have
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Speaker 1: wandered away from the vehicle and become lost or injured.
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Speaker 1: Others believe he may have been lured away by either
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Speaker 1: a stranger or someone he knew. Now, there's also the
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Speaker 1: chilling possibility that Christopher was abducted and met without play.
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Speaker 1: But guys, there has never been any suspects identified. Now,
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Speaker 1: despite the passage of five decades, Christopher's case remains unsolved.
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Speaker 1: The lack of new information and the silence from authorities
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Speaker 1: have deepened the sense of frustration and helplessness felt by
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Speaker 1: those who knew and loved Christopher. His mother, Gwendolen, and
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Speaker 1: his siblings have had to live with the uncertainty of
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Speaker 1: not knowing what happened to their beloved son and brother. Guys,
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Speaker 1: I want you to stop and think about that. I
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Speaker 1: know I probably say it too much. Try to put
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Speaker 1: yourself in the situation of Gwendolyn and her other kids.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine as a mom going to bed every
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Speaker 1: night not knowing what happened to your two year old
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Speaker 1: after you just lost your home to a fire. That
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Speaker 1: is a lot of trauma. Okay. Now, the circumstances surrounding
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Speaker 1: Christopher's disappearance raises many troubling questions. Was Patricia's account of
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Speaker 1: the events that day accurate? Could there have been more
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Speaker 1: to the story than what was reported? Did someone take
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Speaker 1: advantage of the chaos in the family's lives to abduct Christopher?
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Speaker 1: Where was this disappearance the result of a tragic accident, Guys,
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Speaker 1: I like to believe that the police are just withholding
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Speaker 1: the information about whether or not the car doors were locked,
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Speaker 1: because if they were locked, that means Christopher didn't unlock
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Speaker 1: them and get out. Because for them to still be locked,
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Speaker 1: it means someone got him to un locked the doors
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Speaker 1: and then they relocked it. There's just a lot that
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Speaker 1: plays in my mind about that. Now. Chris's case is
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Speaker 1: a heartbreaking reminder of the vulnerability of children and the
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Speaker 1: devastating impact of unsolved disappearances on family. The lack of
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Speaker 1: closure has left a permanent void in the lives of
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Speaker 1: his family, those who knew Christopher, and it remains a
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Speaker 1: dark chapter in Philadelphia's history. Now, guys, I also tried
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Speaker 1: to find out Patricia. This had to have impacted her
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Speaker 1: life too, if she wasn't involved. We don't know if
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Speaker 1: she's involved. I don't want to speculate, but imagine being
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Speaker 1: the babysitter in this happening. I do remember being left
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Speaker 1: alone in the car while my mom would run into
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Speaker 1: it was called Uvaldi Suprette, or she would run into
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Speaker 1: Seller Brothers Real Quick, which was our grocery store, even
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Speaker 1: Tgmy which we call Turtles Girdles and Yo Yo's for
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Speaker 1: some reason. But I remember being left in the car
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Speaker 1: and told do not open this door unless it's me
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Speaker 1: it was something that was done back then. So there
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Speaker 1: is no shame or shade to throw at Patricia because
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Speaker 1: if she truly was honest with her account, she has
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Speaker 1: had to live with the devastating impact of this as
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Speaker 1: well as his family. Now, as the years go by,
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Speaker 1: the hopes of finding answers may dinish diminish, but the
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Speaker 1: memory of Christopher insures. Guys. I want to say that
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Speaker 1: I still believe in hope, because without hope, there would
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Speaker 1: be no reason to get up every day. I hope
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Speaker 1: that somehow he wound up with a family that wanted him,
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Speaker 1: wanted a child, and that he is still alive out there,
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Speaker 1: and that with DNA ancestry twenty three meters, I hope
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Speaker 1: that the family will someday get the answers about what
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Speaker 1: happened to him, and I hope he found a loving,
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Speaker 1: loving home. Now, his story continues to be shared in
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Speaker 1: the hopes that one day someone somewhere might come forward
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Speaker 1: with the information needed to solve this, I mean, five
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Speaker 1: decades mystery and bring peace to the family that has
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Speaker 1: suffered way too long. So I want to encourage you.
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Speaker 1: It's been five decades doesn't mean your information is not
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Speaker 1: wanted and not good. If you have any information about
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Speaker 1: Christopher Bush, please call the Philadelphia Police Department at two
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Speaker 1: one five six eight six three zero nine three. And
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Speaker 1: let's give Gwendolen and his sisters the answers they deserve.
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Speaker 1: Five decades is too long to suffer, so somebody please
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Speaker 1: come forward and do the right thing. Next up is
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Speaker 1: an older case, but not as old. So next up
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Franklin gotschalk, and I'm going
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Speaker 1: to just say I hope that I did not slaughter that,
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Speaker 1: so I think it's gotschalk. Franklin was last seen on
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Speaker 1: February second, nineteen ninety seven, at his residence in Mason Mason, Michigan,
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Speaker 1: just one day before his twenty fifth birthday. Guys, I
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Speaker 1: don't know why that really hit me. The day before
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Speaker 1: your birthday. That just hit me. He was a bright
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Speaker 1: and ambitious young man. Franklin was an English major at
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Speaker 1: the Michigan State University and was only three credits away
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Speaker 1: from earning his degree. However, he did not register for
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Speaker 1: classes for the spring semester of nineteen ninety seven, which
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Speaker 1: was an unusual decision that hinted at some possible troubles
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Speaker 1: in his life. On the day of his disappearance, Franklin
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Speaker 1: left his home in his brother's car, a black and
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Speaker 1: red nineteen seventy seven Oldsmobile Tornado, without permission. Guys, an
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Speaker 1: Oldsmobile Tornado. Those things were like boats. I don't know
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Speaker 1: why the cars were so big back then, but they
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Speaker 1: were like big boats. Now. Franklin was never heard from again,
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Speaker 1: and his sudden and unexplained disappearance set off alarm bells
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Speaker 1: for his family, who described him as a gifted public
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Speaker 1: speaker with aspirations of becoming a teacher. They firmly believed
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Speaker 1: that he would never leave without warning. He would have
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Speaker 1: contacted them and would contact them if he could now.
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Speaker 1: The vehicle Franklin was driving was later discovered abandoned in
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Speaker 1: a parking lot at the corner of Grand River Avenue
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Speaker 1: in Cedar Street in Lansing, Michigan. There was no sign
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Speaker 1: of Franklin at the scene, and this discovery deep in
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Speaker 1: the mystery surrounding his disappearance now. Shortly thereafter, two bikelists
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Speaker 1: made a chilling discovery on the Shiwassee Street bridge. They
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Speaker 1: found two bags belonging to Franklin, but several items were
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Speaker 1: missing from the bag his black leather jacket and his
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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions coat, his wallet and a watch. His watch
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Speaker 1: was something that was a gift from his mother, so
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Speaker 1: those things were missing. Now. I don't know how they
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Speaker 1: know they were missing from the bag. I'm assuming they
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Speaker 1: noticed they were missing from the home, so they assume
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Speaker 1: they're missing from the bag. Now. In a strange twist
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Speaker 1: of this case, the Detroit Lions coat was later found
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Speaker 1: discarded in a cornfield in the Mason area. Guys, that
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Speaker 1: is puzzling and just complicates things even further now. Despite
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Speaker 1: extensive searches, including divers scouring the waters beneath the bridge
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Speaker 1: where the bags were found, no additional clues have been uncovered,
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Speaker 1: and the lack of evidence at these critical locations have
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Speaker 1: left investigators with way more questions than answers now. Franklin's
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Speaker 1: family has long suspected foul play in his disappearance. His mother, Adeline,
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Speaker 1: expressed doubt that her son would voluntarily vanish. She believed
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Speaker 1: that if he is still alive, he would have reached
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Speaker 1: out to his family. Her suspicions were heightened when she
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Speaker 1: learned about the disappearance of another young man, Ryan Getz,
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Speaker 1: whose case bore some unsettling similarities to her sons. In
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, Adeline voiced her concerns, stating, I don't
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Speaker 1: believe he is voluntarily missing. He would have called if
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Speaker 1: he was alive. It's still a mystery to me, especially
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Speaker 1: since I heard about the Gets boy. It makes me
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Speaker 1: think something is going on. And her words were you know, prophetic,
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Speaker 1: as she feared that more cases like her sons might occur,
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Speaker 1: urging the need for closer scrutiny of these disappearances now.
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Speaker 1: One potential factor is in Franklin's disappearance is the possibility
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Speaker 1: that he was struggling with depression. According to the Charlie Project,
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Speaker 1: Franklin may have been experiencing emotional distress at the time
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Speaker 1: of his disappearance. This theory, combined with the unusual circumstances
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Speaker 1: surrounding his decision not to register for classes and the
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Speaker 1: mysterious disappearance of his belongings, has led some to speculate
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Speaker 1: that he may have been in a vulnerable state. Guys,
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Speaker 1: I will tell you people in a vulnerable state with
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Speaker 1: mental illness, they are prime targets for people who want
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Speaker 1: to do bad. I did read some places where they said,
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Speaker 1: maybe he committed suicide. Guys, if he had committed suicide,
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Speaker 1: they would have found his remains, okay, And there is
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Speaker 1: no mention of a gun, that he owned a gun,
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Speaker 1: that he shot guns. I couldn't find any of that. However,
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Speaker 1: the lack of concrete evidence leaves were various other theories,
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Speaker 1: you know, including foul play. Because the discovery of his
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Speaker 1: belongings in different locations and his bags on the bridge
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Speaker 1: and then his coat and a cornfield suggests to me
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Speaker 1: that someone else was involved in the disappearance. Or someone
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Speaker 1: found the bags on the bridge and saw the Detroit
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Speaker 1: Lions coat and said Ooh, I like this and want
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Speaker 1: to take it. But then why would they ditch it
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Speaker 1: in a cornfield? That in my mind doesn't add up. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Franklin gotchchalk, remains missing, and his case continues to battle
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Speaker 1: investigators and his loved ones. The Ingham County Sheriff's Department
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Speaker 1: is still treating his disappearance as an open case, but
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Speaker 1: after more than two decades, there's still no definite leads.
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Speaker 1: So this mystery has left his family without closure, in
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Speaker 1: his case unsolved. And I want to say, somebody in
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Speaker 1: that town and on that bridge had to have seen
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Speaker 1: who dropped the bags off right? Why they were there?
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Speaker 1: Why the car? Why? I mean the cornfield. I can
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Speaker 1: totally understand how you could go out in a cornfield
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Speaker 1: and leave a jacket and not be seen. It's not
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Speaker 1: like farmers have cameras on the corn right, But on
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Speaker 1: the bridge, somebody had to have seen something. Nowhere did
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Speaker 1: I see it? Say it was an abandoned bridge or
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Speaker 1: it was a not travel bridge. So that that is
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Speaker 1: sus to me, and it tells me somebody knows something.
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Speaker 1: And as I say all the time in the Chase
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Speaker 1: Lackey case, if you know something, be a human, stand
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Speaker 1: up and tell what you know. You can call in
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Speaker 1: a anonymous tips to the FBI, even if they're not
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Speaker 1: looking into the case, or you can even go to
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Speaker 1: FBI dot gov tips and leave a message. So do
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Speaker 1: the right damn thing and let his parents know. Now,
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Speaker 1: some say it's suspicious that he didn't register for college
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Speaker 1: for the last three credit credits. Maybe he was going
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Speaker 1: to take a semester off. People do that, you know,
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Speaker 1: So that to me is not as suspicious as the
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Speaker 1: fact that his belongings were found in different places. So
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Speaker 1: I'm asking anyone with information about Franklin Gotchchalk's disappearance please
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Speaker 1: call the Ingham County Sheriff's Department at five one seven
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Speaker 1: six seven six twenty four thirty one. His family wants
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Speaker 1: to know what happened, and they are holding out hope
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Speaker 1: for answers, and that is never going to go away. Guys.
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Speaker 1: I hear people say, oh, oh, the family needs to
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Speaker 1: move on. It's somebody said that in the Chase Lackey case,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, seriously, you want a family member
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Speaker 1: to stop looking for their mis and loved one. Shame
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Speaker 1: on you. Would you want someone to stop looking for
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Speaker 1: you if you went missing. So these people deserve answers.
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Speaker 1: And you can call anonymous. I mean, if you're a
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Speaker 1: coward and you did it and you don't want to
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Speaker 1: get in trouble, call in a flip an anonymous tip. Okay,
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Speaker 1: call in an anonymous tip. They're not going to find
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Speaker 1: you because it's anonymous. They can't find you to pay
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Speaker 1: you the reward. They're not going to find you, So
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Speaker 1: do the right thing. Christopher's case two, Okay, if you
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Speaker 1: suspect that a person in your family could be Christopher,
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Speaker 1: and that a loved one took him, abducted him. Tell somebody. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Back on True Crime and Wan Time, when I first
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Speaker 1: started the podcast and was doing it alone, I am
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Speaker 1: interviewed and covered Zephanie's case. Zephanie was abducted as an infant. Guys,
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Speaker 1: she found her family, okay, and it turned out the
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Speaker 1: girl who was her best friend turned out to be
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Speaker 1: her sister. Think about that, so somebody knows. Somebody could
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Speaker 1: have a suspicion. So I want to challenge everybody do
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Speaker 1: the right thing, and remember, integrity is doing the right
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Speaker 1: thing when no one's looking okay, so please call and
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Speaker 1: report the tips. I also want to ask you to
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Speaker 1: Terry Truecrime after this. Okay. Now, instead of a cute
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Speaker 1: little story today, I wanted to share some disturbing facts.
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Speaker 1: And when I say disturbing, they're disturbing, So buckle up. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you an overview of missing person
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Speaker 1: statistics in the United States. Okay. Missing person cases are
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Speaker 1: a critical concern in the US and it affects individuals, families,
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Speaker 1: and communities. So I want you to stop and think
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Speaker 1: about that. It affects more than just the family. Think
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Speaker 1: about kids who go missing. Their classmates look at an
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Speaker 1: empty school desk and wonder what happened to their classmate,
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Speaker 1: and they wonder could it happen to me? Could it
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Speaker 1: happen to someone I know? Then you've got the community
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Speaker 1: who's like, is there a predator in our community who's
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Speaker 1: abducting people? It affects everybody, Okay, it is not a
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Speaker 1: one victim crime. Now, over the past five years, data
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Speaker 1: on missing persons in the United States reveals significant patterns
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Speaker 1: and trends that can help us better understand this complex issue. Okay. Now,
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Speaker 1: the National Crime Information Center they I mean, they provide
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Speaker 1: the most comprehensive data on missing person cases in the
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Speaker 1: United States. Every year, law enforcement agencies across the country
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Speaker 1: report cases to the NCIC, which compiles and maintains a
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Speaker 1: centralized database. Okay, guys, hope you're ready for this. Now.
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Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, six hundred and twelve thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty six people were reported missing. Okay,
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen it was six hundred and nine thousand, two
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five. So went down just a smidge
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five hundred and forty three thousand, zero eighteen,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, five hundred and twenty one thousand, seven
27:09
Speaker 1: hundred and five reported, twenty twenty two, five hundred and
27:15
Speaker 1: twenty one thousand, four hundred and thirty five Now twenty
27:21
Speaker 1: twenty three is still an estimate. Five hundred and twenty
27:24
Speaker 1: two thousand, seven hundred and eighty reported. Okay, Now, While
27:32
Speaker 1: these numbers reflect the total number of people reported, it
27:36
Speaker 1: is important to understand not all of those are unsolved.
27:41
Speaker 1: Many cases are resolved relatively quickly, with individuals being located
27:46
Speaker 1: within hours or days. For example, there was an amber
27:51
Speaker 1: alert in Texas this weekend. Maximus was his name, or Maximilius,
27:57
Speaker 1: and within twenty four hours from when I all the
28:00
Speaker 1: Amber alert, he was discovered. So please keep that in mind.
28:06
Speaker 1: Also remember a significant portion of these cases remain unsolved,
28:12
Speaker 1: leading to long term investigations. They become cold back cases,
28:18
Speaker 1: and families are broken and they're missing parts of them. Okay. Now,
28:27
Speaker 1: Demographics do play a crucial role in understanding the patterns
28:32
Speaker 1: of missing persons across the US. Data from the NCIC
28:37
Speaker 1: and other organizations reveal disparities and missing person cases based
28:43
Speaker 1: on age, gender, race, and other factors. Children, that's anyone
28:49
Speaker 1: under eighteen, They account for a substantial portion of missing
28:56
Speaker 1: person cases each year. Approximately thirty percent of all reported
29:02
Speaker 1: cases involve minors. Think about that, guys, think of thirty
29:08
Speaker 1: percent of a five hundred and twenty two thousand. That's a
29:12
Speaker 1: lot of missing kids. Okay, And this represents roughly, like
29:18
Speaker 1: I said, one hundred and eighty thousand to two hundred
29:21
Speaker 1: thousand reported missing annually. Now, adults eighteen years and older.
29:27
Speaker 1: The majority of missing person cases involve adults, with an
29:32
Speaker 1: increasing trend in cases involving individuals between the ages of
29:37
Speaker 1: eighteen and thirty. Now, I want to tell you something
29:42
Speaker 1: about that. I personally believe between your eighteenth birthday and
29:49
Speaker 1: your thirties, your twenties, we're all living life freely. Most
29:53
Speaker 1: of us are. You are learning who you are, You're
29:57
Speaker 1: going out with friends, You're experimenting with alcohol, sometimes with narcotics,
30:04
Speaker 1: and that makes us more vulnerable. So we need to
30:08
Speaker 1: think about that. Everyone that's in that eighteen to thirty
30:13
Speaker 1: need to think about it. Don't stop experimenting, don't stop
30:17
Speaker 1: trying to find out who you are, but do it safely. Now,
30:22
Speaker 1: this was shocking to me. Males Historically, males constitute a
30:28
Speaker 1: higher percentage of missing persons. What the hell that shocked me?
30:34
Speaker 1: Okay it did. On average, about sixty percent of reported
30:39
Speaker 1: missing person cases are male guys. I had no flippant idea,
30:47
Speaker 1: And I think it's because the most popular cases we
30:51
Speaker 1: see that the media does are the blonde, white females.
30:57
Speaker 1: So I just assumed it was mostly female and guys.
31:01
Speaker 1: Assuming made an ass out of me. So females make
31:05
Speaker 1: up approximately forty percent of reported cases. However, among children,
31:11
Speaker 1: females are slightly more likely to be reported missing than
31:16
Speaker 1: males guys. One of those reasons is runaways for kids,
31:23
Speaker 1: but also human trafficking. Sex trafficking has increased substantially in
31:30
Speaker 1: the last couple of decades. So the majority of missing
31:34
Speaker 1: person reports involved white individuals, making up about fifty four
31:40
Speaker 1: percent of the total cases. Now, African Americans are overrepresented
31:47
Speaker 1: in missing person statistics. They account for thirty five percent
31:51
Speaker 1: of the cases, despite they're only about thirteen percent of
31:56
Speaker 1: the US population. And let me tell you what the
31:59
Speaker 1: problem is about that. As most of you've probably noticed
32:04
Speaker 1: or heard, if you follow true crime. Individuals who are
32:10
Speaker 1: not white do not get the coverage. We're talking about
32:15
Speaker 1: the African Americans, the Hispanics, that Asian, the Indigenous, they
32:20
Speaker 1: do not get the coverage. So thirty five percent of
32:24
Speaker 1: the cases and they only constitute thirteen percent of our population.
32:30
Speaker 1: There's a huge problem. Okay. Now, Hispanic and Latino individuals
32:36
Speaker 1: represent around ten percent of the recorded cases. Now Native Americans, Asians,
32:42
Speaker 1: and other racial groups collectively account for about one percent
32:47
Speaker 1: of the total missing person cases. Now, I want to
32:51
Speaker 1: say I am not one hundred percent sold on that
32:54
Speaker 1: statistic from the NCIC. And the reason I say that,
32:59
Speaker 1: I too often about Native Americans who go missing, and
33:05
Speaker 1: I don't believe it gets reported to the NCIIC because
33:09
Speaker 1: a lot of times they still live on tribal land
33:13
Speaker 1: and they have different law enforcement. So I don't believe
33:19
Speaker 1: that's a true number. But I could be wrong. So
33:24
Speaker 1: I don't know. If somebody knows, they should let me know. Now,
33:28
Speaker 1: we need to understand the circumstances under which individuals go missing.
33:33
Speaker 1: Is crucial for trying to address the issues, Okay, because
33:39
Speaker 1: the causes and circumstances they widely vary. They are not
33:45
Speaker 1: all cookie cutter. You know, they can be generally categorized.
33:50
Speaker 1: So runaways among children and teenagers, running away from home
33:54
Speaker 1: is a leading cause of a missing person reports. The
33:58
Speaker 1: motivations for running often include family conflict, abuse, and mental
34:04
Speaker 1: health issues. But guys, I want to say runaways are
34:09
Speaker 1: in danger because the minute they go out, they are susceptible.
34:15
Speaker 1: They are not in a good head space. They're leaving
34:18
Speaker 1: home for a reason. It makes them a prime target
34:23
Speaker 1: to be abducted, which is our next one. Okay. While
34:26
Speaker 1: they say it's rare, abductions, especially by strangers, are among
34:32
Speaker 1: the most feared scenarios. Okay. The majority of abductions are familial,
34:38
Speaker 1: where a non custodial parent takes a child without legal permission.
34:43
Speaker 1: But guys, I think we also they say they're rare,
34:48
Speaker 1: I think we're seeing them more and more common, and
34:52
Speaker 1: maybe it's because I'm covering missing person cases now. It
34:57
Speaker 1: still happens where strangers. They say familial, that's not including friends. Okay,
35:04
Speaker 1: so an acquaintance could be the abductor. Okay, so we
35:10
Speaker 1: need to remember that now. As we know, adults with
35:15
Speaker 1: mental health conditions such as dementia or sear defresh depression
35:20
Speaker 1: are at a higher risk of going missing, often due
35:24
Speaker 1: to disorientation or a desire to withdraw from society. And guys,
35:29
Speaker 1: I want to say, for our older population with dementia,
35:33
Speaker 1: it is scary. Okay, they don't know, they don't know
35:38
Speaker 1: where they're going. They think they do, but they don't.
35:41
Speaker 1: And then people who are having a mental health crisis,
35:44
Speaker 1: they're not in a good frame of mind, and once
35:47
Speaker 1: again this classification, they become targets to become abducted or killed.
35:55
Speaker 1: One thing about this that I didn't find and I
35:58
Speaker 1: am going to research and I will share it in
36:01
Speaker 1: an upcoming episode. How many of these that go missing
36:05
Speaker 1: that were mental health issues or runaways turn out to
36:09
Speaker 1: become victims of a homicide? That I want to know,
36:14
Speaker 1: So I am going to be looking into that. So
36:17
Speaker 1: some missing persons, particularly young women and children, become victims
36:22
Speaker 1: of human trafficking. Guys, this issue remains a significant concern
36:29
Speaker 1: in the US. But guys, young males are going missing
36:34
Speaker 1: as well. There is an increase, and I hope that
36:39
Speaker 1: the NCIC does follow that because we are seeing more
36:45
Speaker 1: college age twenty somethings males go missing. Yes, sometimes it's
36:50
Speaker 1: due to the fact they are in a risky lifestyle,
36:55
Speaker 1: but still I think that's something that's happening more and
36:58
Speaker 1: more so. In some cases, individuals go missing due to
37:04
Speaker 1: criminal activity, which does include kidnapping, which is a little
37:09
Speaker 1: bit different from abductions, murder, or other forms of foul play,
37:13
Speaker 1: and these cases they remain unsolved for longer periods. I
37:18
Speaker 1: also think we need to remember that foul play also
37:22
Speaker 1: falls into people going missing because of drug deals or
37:28
Speaker 1: they're in gangs and they do something wrong and they
37:32
Speaker 1: most likely have been murdered and their bodies have been hidden.
37:37
Speaker 1: So the resolution rate of missing person cases varies based
37:41
Speaker 1: on the circumstances of the resources dedicated to finding the
37:46
Speaker 1: individuals okay. So while a large number are resolved quickly,
37:52
Speaker 1: others remain unsolved for years. So I had planned on
37:58
Speaker 1: Saturday going to the Honk Missing in San Antonio because
38:02
Speaker 1: I wanted to support Bianca's family, but when my bestie
38:07
Speaker 1: said she was coming in town, I didn't. I stayed
38:10
Speaker 1: and hung out with her. But cases that not are
38:14
Speaker 1: not resolved quickly do tend to linger on for years
38:19
Speaker 1: and years and years. So on average, about ninety percent
38:23
Speaker 1: of missing person cases are resolved within the first five years. Okay.
38:29
Speaker 1: That includes individuals who return home voluntarily, are located by
38:34
Speaker 1: law enforcement, or are found deceased. Now, something I want
38:40
Speaker 1: to say here because I often have people ask me,
38:43
Speaker 1: why do you say the family once their missing loved
38:47
Speaker 1: one returned home, but yet they know the person may
38:51
Speaker 1: be dead. Guys, having your loved one's remains is still
38:56
Speaker 1: returning them home. Okay, So we need to remember that
39:00
Speaker 1: them knowing what happened, having their loved one return even
39:07
Speaker 1: just remains, is bringing them home and they are able
39:10
Speaker 1: to then bury them, have a memorial service and try
39:15
Speaker 1: to start a path to some type of closure. So
39:22
Speaker 1: a small percentage remain unsolved, you know, about ten percent,
39:26
Speaker 1: and guys, they become cold cases, as Christopher's case that
39:31
Speaker 1: we just heard five decades. Okay, it's a long time.
39:36
Speaker 1: And as I said earlier, the impact of a missing
39:39
Speaker 1: person case extends far beyond the individual involved. It is
39:43
Speaker 1: not a one victim situation. Okay. Families suffer immense emotional
39:50
Speaker 1: and psychological stress, often experiencing feelings of helplessness and despair.
39:57
Speaker 1: A lot of families are fracked, sured, couples get divorced,
40:02
Speaker 1: families are broken up, because it is traumatic and it
40:07
Speaker 1: is devastating. So to anyone watching this that wants to
40:13
Speaker 1: do something bad like take somebody or hurt somebody, don't
40:17
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, don't do it. Don't be a bad person.
40:20
Speaker 1: Think about it. And communities are affected, like I said,
40:24
Speaker 1: especially when it's a missing person or a child, when
40:28
Speaker 1: they think foul play is suspected. Because I have to
40:31
Speaker 1: tell you, I remember I ran away when I was
40:35
Speaker 1: in an elementary because my mom would let me play
40:38
Speaker 1: in the front yard. I packed up my little suitcase
40:41
Speaker 1: and I was going to go to all my neighbor's
40:43
Speaker 1: house to see if they wanted to let me play
40:46
Speaker 1: in the front yard, and if they did, I would
40:48
Speaker 1: live with them. The reason is because the child had
40:50
Speaker 1: been abducted in the neighborhood. Luckily, my uncle Tom lived
40:55
Speaker 1: next door. He was like, no, Terry Lynn, go home.
40:59
Speaker 1: And I went knocked in everybody's door and they were like, no,
41:02
Speaker 1: you have to play in the backyard here too. So
41:06
Speaker 1: I am thankful nothing happened to me. Okay, So to
41:12
Speaker 1: those of you that might be younger who see this,
41:14
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, don't run away from home. Okay,
41:18
Speaker 1: don't run away from home. Now, what we can do
41:21
Speaker 1: to help is we can support organizations such as the
41:25
Speaker 1: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children because they play
41:29
Speaker 1: a vital role in assisting families and law enforcement in
41:33
Speaker 1: these cases. And public awareness campaigns and technological advancements such
41:38
Speaker 1: as the Amber Alerts have been instrumental in the recovery
41:43
Speaker 1: of missing children. I believe wholeheartedly the missing person named
41:51
Speaker 1: Amber that it's made after she has not been found,
41:55
Speaker 1: but her family. Fighting for Amber Alerts to become a
41:59
Speaker 1: thing has helped find so many children and has helped
42:04
Speaker 1: prevent more families from having to experience the stravesty. Now.
42:10
Speaker 1: Missing persons cases in the US are a significant issue.
42:15
Speaker 1: Like I said, they affect thousands of individuals and families
42:18
Speaker 1: each year, and like I said, many cases are resolved.
42:22
Speaker 1: The persistence of unsolved cases highlights the need for continued
42:27
Speaker 1: efforts in prevention, investigation, and support, and as we move forward,
42:35
Speaker 1: the collaboration between law enforcement, community organations, and the public
42:40
Speaker 1: remains crucial in addressing this ongoing challenge. And guys, social
42:46
Speaker 1: media plays an important role in helping loved ones be
42:50
Speaker 1: reunited with their loved ones, and that is where we
42:55
Speaker 1: can all help and do our part. Now. I will
42:59
Speaker 1: remind you and if I need to post it again,
43:02
Speaker 1: I can. If you see a missing person flyer come
43:06
Speaker 1: up on your social media page, take a quick minute
43:10
Speaker 1: in google the person's name. Make sure it's not a spam.
43:14
Speaker 1: There are horrible people out there who are spamming missing
43:18
Speaker 1: person cases. So I'm going to ask you all to
43:22
Speaker 1: continue sharing the missing person flyers that we share on
43:26
Speaker 1: our social media pages, not just on the cases that
43:29
Speaker 1: we cover, but even on the ones that I see
43:33
Speaker 1: and I reshare on Terry True Crime because Looston, Texas
43:37
Speaker 1: does an amazing job of getting the word out there.
43:41
Speaker 1: I will tell you something that has broken my heart
43:45
Speaker 1: is that when I see these flyers, I share them
43:47
Speaker 1: and I go and add the person's name to our
43:50
Speaker 1: list to cover. We could probably cover two missing person
43:55
Speaker 1: cases every day and we would have live shows for
43:59
Speaker 1: the next five years. Think about that. That is horrific.
44:06
Speaker 1: The other thing that we can do get the word
44:10
Speaker 1: out to your local politicians that law enforcement in every
44:16
Speaker 1: county and state needs to have a missing person's unit. Okay,
44:23
Speaker 1: there need to be police officers who are dedicated to
44:29
Speaker 1: these cases. So what we've learned in so many of
44:33
Speaker 1: these cases, law enforcement doesn't have the bandwidth. I know
44:38
Speaker 1: in Chase's case that's the case. Harris County doesn't have
44:42
Speaker 1: the bandwidth, and I tried really hard to give them
44:44
Speaker 1: grace for that. But on the other hand, you could
44:48
Speaker 1: still keep in touch with the families and still do
44:50
Speaker 1: the right thing. So we need to all try to
44:55
Speaker 1: get our local government and local law enforcement to get
45:00
Speaker 1: these kind of resources, because guys, that ten percent that's
45:05
Speaker 1: not found needs to be found. Okay, if we can
45:10
Speaker 1: bring that down to five percent, think of the impact.
45:15
Speaker 1: Just a five percent improval, Think of the impact. So
45:19
Speaker 1: let's do our part. Continue sharing the missing person flyers
45:23
Speaker 1: that we post now. I want to thank you all
45:27
Speaker 1: for joining me today and I look forward to seeing
45:31
Speaker 1: you all again on Wednesday for our next episode of
45:35
Speaker 1: Midday Missing. I also want to remind you to join
45:41
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45:44
Speaker 1: social media channels. We will in the near future be
45:48
Speaker 1: putting out a list of all of them, but True
45:52
Speaker 1: Crime and Wine Time is currently the main page you
45:55
Speaker 1: can follow. Terry True Crime is my social media page
46:00
Speaker 1: you can also follow, so you're going to want to
46:02
Speaker 1: go there. We share all kind of shenanigans, keep you
46:06
Speaker 1: up to date what's going on, and like I said,
46:09
Speaker 1: we've got a big announcement coming in just a little
46:12
Speaker 1: over a week. So also, you can catch all of
46:17
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46:21
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts. But remember some of our
46:24
Speaker 1: content we'll only be on YouTube and will not be
46:28
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46:34
Speaker 1: and YouTube, So guys please this is so important to me.
46:40
Speaker 1: Until next time, stay safe, watch out for crime, and
46:45
Speaker 1: as always, enjoy your wine time. Bye guys, see you Wednesday.
47:03
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