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Jennifer Wyant Cold Case Files - Nashville, TN · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Ever get that feeling, you know, like you stumble on
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  a story and it just stops you in your tracks.
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  It's like every detail just deepens the mystery and you're
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  left wondering what really happened. Well, that's exactly what we're
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  diving into today, the baffling disappearance of Jennifer Wyant.
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  Speaker 2: And what makes Jennifer's story so captivating, even after four decades,
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  is that it could happen to anyone. I mean, here's
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  a young woman, just twenty one years old, living what
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  seems like a totally normal life in nineteen eighties in Nashville,
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  but then poof gone vanished, just.
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  Speaker 1: Like something out of a movie. So Jennifer, she's living
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  at the Tanglewood Court apartments right, driving that new trans Am.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she was proud of that car too, and on.
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  Speaker 1: Top of that, she's taking night classes. Sounds like she
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  had a good head on her shoulders, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Driven, absolutely responsible, ambitious, not someone you'd expect to just disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And that's what makes June twenty seventh, nineteen eighty
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  so strange. It's a Friday, Jennifer's having lunch with coworkers,
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  talking about the softball game that night, normal.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff, Friday lunch at Taco Bell on Nolansville Road. Hard
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  to imagine that's the last time anyone sees her.
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  Speaker 1: It's like she walked out of that Taco Bell and
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  straight into thin air. And here's the thing that always
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  gets me. Her car. It's found right where she left
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  it at her apartment complex.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think if someone wanted to harm her, they'd take
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  the car right. It's a head scratcher.
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  Speaker 1: It's like whoever took her wanted it to look like
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  she just walked away, which is honestly even creepier.
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  Speaker 2: It's a classic disappearance puzzle. But there was one thing
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  that came out later, years later, actually a detail that
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  throws a wrench into the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about her neighbors, Yeah, the ones who said
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  they saw her being taken.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, talk about a bombshell.
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  Speaker 1: It gives me chills just thinking about it. They said
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  they saw a car, a dark sedan outside her building
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  that night, heard screams, saw people forcing someone who they
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  thought was Jennifer into.
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  Speaker 2: The car, terrifying. And here's the kicker. They went straight
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  to the apartment security guard told him everything. Guess what
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  he didn't file a police report, Nope, nothing. It's like
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  what was going through his head. We may never know.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got a young woman vanished cars there, neighbor
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  see something, security guard does nothing. It's like a bad dream.
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  Speaker 2: And as if it couldn't get weirder, six months later,
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  another curve ball, December eleventh, rolls around. A construction worker
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  is out near Blue Lake.
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  Speaker 1: Lane, that's not too far from Piercy Priest Lake res
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  You know.
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  Speaker 2: The area vaguely well back then it was all woods
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  out there. Anyway, this construction worker he finds something, Jennifer's
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  driver's license.
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  Speaker 1: Just the license, not her purse, wallet, anything else, just.
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  Speaker 2: The license, like a breadcrumb leading to nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Why leave the license, It's like leaving a calling card,
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  almost taunting the police.
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  Speaker 2: You know. It's a strange one, right, And Detective Filter
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  he's got this theory that it might have something to
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  do with Piercy Priest.
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  Speaker 1: Lake because of where the license was found exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean think about it. Back then, Piercy Priests it
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  was surrounded by wood way more than now. It would
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  be easy to, you know, make something disappear.
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  Speaker 1: And they searched those woods right with dogs and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, multiple searches. They even had divers in the lake.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and nothing zilt, Which.
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  Speaker 2: Makes you wonder either whoever did this knew those woods
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  like the back of their hand, or they got lucky, or.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a thought that keeps me up at night,
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  what if they were never there? To begin with? What
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  if Jennifer's you know.
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  Speaker 2: I get what you're saying. It's like, why go through
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  the trouble of leaving the license if you're just gonna
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  dump the body somewhere obvious?
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  Speaker 1: Right? It feels deliberate, like sending a message. But what
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  kind of message is that? And to whom the police,
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  the family?
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  Speaker 2: That's the million dollar question, isn't it. And honestly, we
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  may never know the answer. We don't even know for
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  sure if there was a message in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: It could have been random, true, but still it's hard
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  not to see a connection. License found near the lake
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  can take a filter thing.
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  Speaker 2: She might be there, and yet nothing, no sign of her.
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  It's like she vanished into thin air. Again.
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  Speaker 1: It's enough to make you believe in ghosts, you know,
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  tell me about it.
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  Speaker 2: But speaking of ghosts, there's another aspect of this case.
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  We haven't even touched on yet. The softball game.
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  Speaker 1: The softball game, Yeah, Jennifer was supposed to be there
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  that Friday night, the night she disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. And it's like, did anyone even notice she wasn't there?
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  Did you just not show up? Or did something happen
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  on the way there?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was nineteen eighty no cell phones, no
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  way to easily reach someone. It's crazy to think about
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  how different things were back then.
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  Speaker 2: Totally people could just disappear and no one would know
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  until much later.
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  Speaker 1: What makes you wonder about those people of the softball game.
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  Someone there might have seen something. Maybe someone remembers Jennifer
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  arguing with someone or I don't know, getting into a
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  strange car, or maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it was completely unrelated. But here's the thing, even
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  the smallest detail, it could be the missing piece. That's
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  what Detective Filter keeps saying.
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  Speaker 1: So what you're saying is, even after all this time,
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  someone listening to this right now might hold the key
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  to solving Jennifer's disappearance.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long shot, but it's not impossible.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we're doing this right to get Jennifer's
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  story out there, to remind people that she's still missing and.
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  Speaker 2: That her family deserves answers. Imagine after forty years, still
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  not knowing what happened to your daughter, your sister, your friend.
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  Speaker 1: It's heartbreaking. And if there's even the slightest chance that
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  someone listening knows something, anything at all, that could help
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  bring Jennifer.
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  Speaker 2: Home, they need to come forward. Contact Detective Filter his
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  informations in the show notes. Even if you think what
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  you remember is insignificant, it might be the missing piece
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  of the puzzle.
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  Speaker 1: Because sometimes solving a mystery like this isn't about finding
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  that one big clue. Sometimes it's about piecing together all
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  those little details, those seemingly insignificant memories, that together can
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  paint a clearer picture of what happened exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It's like that saying the truth is out there, we
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  just have to know where to look, and sometimes the
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  best place to look is in the memories of those
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  who were there.
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  Speaker 1: So if you were in Nashville back in nineteen eighty,
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  if you knew Jennifer Wyant, if you were at that
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  taco bell, that softball game, that party, or even if
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  you just remember seeing something a little.
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  Speaker 2: Off around that time, don't stay silent reach out. You
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  might just be the one to finally bring Jennifer home.
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  Speaker 1: This case, it's a stark reminder that sometimes, even in
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  the most ordinary of lives, the unexpected can happen. But
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  it also shows us the power of collective memory, the
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  importance of never giving up hope, and the strength of
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  a community coming together to seek answers.
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  Speaker 2: Jennifer Wyant might be gone, but she's not forgotten, and
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  we won't stop searching for answers until she's home.