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Hold My Sweet Tea
Ep. 17-Missing: Athena Joy Curry
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The haunting case of Athena Joy Curry draws us into a mother's inexplicable disappearance that continues to baffle investigators nearly fourteen years later. We explore the troubling circumstances around what happened after a late-night argument between Athena and her son's father on May 27, 2011, when she allegedly walked out of his Atlanta apartment wearing only a tank top and shorts—without her beloved 16-month-old son.
Something doesn't add up. How could a dedicated mother who arrived via public transportation simply vanish into the night? Why did four days pass before anyone reported her missing? The explanation that she abandoned her child after seeing text messages from another woman on her boyfriend's phone strikes her family as impossible to believe.
As we dig deeper, we uncover disturbing allegations of domestic violence in Athena's relationship, including reports that her boyfriend had previously been arrested for assaulting her and had threatened her with a stun gun on the day she gave birth. Years after her disappearance, he would face similar charges with another girlfriend, suggesting a troubling pattern.
This case highlights the painful reality that stories of missing persons of color often receive minimal media attention. Athena's sister Aisha has worked tirelessly to keep her memory alive, eventually adopting King, who has grown into a young man bearing striking resemblances to the mother he never knew. Through her Facebook page and website dedicated to finding Athena, the family continues their search for answers.
Could someone have witnessed something that night in the apartment complex? Does someone hold the key to solving this mystery? We ask you to consider sharing Athena's story and contacting the Atlanta Police Department with any information that might help bring closure to a family still wondering what happened to their beloved Athena.
Source Material:
Athena Joy Curry, Atlanta PD Missing Persons,https://www.atlantapd.org/community/crime-stoppers/missing-persons/athena-joy-curry
Cavalier, Andrea, May 23, 2020, Georgia Woman desperate for answers in mysterious disappearance of younger sister, Athena Curry, who hasn’t been seen since 2011, https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/georgia-woman-desperate-answers-mysterious-disappearance-younger-sister-athena-curry-n1213871
Jaquez, Nefertiti, September 21, 2017, Police working case of Woman who disappeared after fight with boyfriend, https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/police-working-case-of-woman-who-disappeared-after-fight-with-boyfriend/526716233/
WXIA staff, May 16, 2015, Ga. Mysteries: 20-year-old mom vanishes without a trace https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/cascade-sw-atlanta/ga-mysteries-20-year-old-mom-vanishes-without-a-trace/85-130363933
Introducing Athena Joy Curry's Case
Speaker 1Athena Joy Curry was last seen at Beecher Street in Atlanta, georgia, on May 27, 2011. This is Hold my Sweet Tea. Hey y'all, i'all, I'm back.
Speaker 2I'm Pearl and I'm Holly and I'm so glad you're back.
Speaker 1Yeah, had fun. My mom's probably not glad I'm back.
Speaker 2Right, she's like come back, come back.
Speaker 1Stay forever.
Speaker 2Well, you tried to get her to come here, but she doesn't like the state, because you know.
Speaker 1Yeah. The hurricanes and all that fun weather. She's scared of it. I actually was like do you want to just come stay like a week? And she said fly no.
Speaker 2Right, you fly here, but I'm not flying anywhere.
Speaker 1I said, suddenly you're scared of flying. You used to fly all the time. She said blow up now, Right.
Speaker 2I know and I'm like they blew up then too. Yeah, I have to confess I was a little worried with you flying out there and back.
Speaker 1I'm like, oh my gosh, yeah Well you should have been on my plane on the way back. The amount of turbulence was kind of freaking me out.
Speaker 2Yeah, just a little bit. I would have had to been sedated. I want to be sedated 24 hours ago. There's our age again. What's my age again? All right, oh's my age again. All right.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness, yeah. So my mom just you know a little backstory had a stroke about six years ago. It might be a little bit longer, but she has verbal aphasia, so she has a hard time talking. She gets out some stuff Cuss words, Cuss words.
Speaker 2Yeah, she does Come real easy.
Speaker 1But she'll get stuck sometimes and can't really say things. So when you hear me say stuff like the only answer she had was blow up now.
Speaker 2Yeah, because that's the like.
Speaker 1It's the easiest way for her to communicate. It's a little broken, Like. She's just not from here.
Speaker 2But she tries, she tries to get out and she does really good, and if she's mad, she does really good.
Speaker 1Yeah, she cusses, but she'll also get out like regular words really well when she's mad. Yeah, so we went to the Bellagio to see the show. Oh so it's like cirque du soleil stuff. Really I loved it. This one has water in it so it was really cool. Um, we're waiting in line outside the theater doors and there are a bunch of people who keep pushing past.
Speaker 2My mom and my Beth Dutton comes out as it should, because your mom is tiny and I literally stopped people and I said what in the hell are y'all doing?
Speaker 1We have assigned seats. You bought tickets to the same show I did. We all have specific places to sit Right. What reason are you trying to cut in line so you can get in here first? Like you need to beat me to something like we've been standing here. People looked at me like oh my god and then turned around and walked back behind me you're beth dutton and you're uh louis. Yeah, I was like y'all are idiots and it's funny because I tell my sister and her husband about it later and they're both like tourists.
Speaker 2Right, all these dang tourists, technically so am I?
Speaker 1but literally, what is your problem? So I mean, we had balcony seats, so I was just like also, when I'm going through the doors and watching the big crowd of people go down the little hallway, I get to go up the escalator.
Speaker 1Right, you're like, look at me, I get to go up here, and so, you know, we get up there and it's like really plush seats with these little marble tables so we could put our drinks on, and there's like no one sitting on the sides of us, no one behind us, it's just us in this little spot, and it was so nice and we just, you know, had to look down over the crowd of people.
Speaker 2So y'all are up there like the Volturi from Twilight. That's right. Judging, judging all of the little people down there who tried to push their way in, right, I could spit in your hair Just because you were a jerk. That's what popped in my head the Volturi. I have to work Twilight in there somewhere. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1Yeah, so it was fun. And then when we were leaving, my mom was getting frustrated with the crowd of people because, again, like we're having to walk back through the casino and, like I said, those cuss words come out so easy and she's getting frustrated and she's over there, bastards. You know, I'm like Mom, stop, You're going to make me have to fight someone in this casino and it's not going to be cool.
Speaker 1I will, but I don't want to. They go, turn around and they're going to be like what did you say to me? And I'll be like don't you talk to my mama like that? And then it's like you know, pulling off imaginary earrings Right, Telling my mama to hold my shoes. Right, Kick off your shoes and be like look, I got more better grounding barefoot. It's all on in this carpeted casino.
Speaker 2More, better Mo', better Mo' better See that was the ghetto coming out. Mo' better Put my shoe off in the air Flipping your flip flops everywhere. Right, oh my God, I remember my aunt. One time she got mad at her daughter and first of all she threw a glass of iced tea at her and she took her flip-flop off and she was like bam right in the back of the head.
Speaker 1I've done that a bunch of times. I have really good aim with shoes.
Speaker 2Yep, I've done that to my son. I have thrown a shoe or two at him because he was like being aggravated to my son.
Speaker 1I have thrown a shoe or two at him because he was like being aggravated. Now my my brother, old chicken Voldemort, over there, he got a can of bug spray thrown at his head. So he knows I got pretty decent aim right.
Speaker 2Well, you know, my ex-boyfriend knew how to push my buttons and I'm a very tolerant person, but like I'd had enough and I'd just taken a fresh hot pan of baked cookies out of the oven and I threw the entire pan at him. Oh, my goodness, he ducked and it missed him and he goes. You missed me and I took the spatula that was in the other hand and through and caught him right and like right between the eyes and cut his forehead. I was like, look, I'm not a violent person, but you just brought that out.
Speaker 2You deserve that so yeah, throwing cookies, throwing shoes, we're abusers, we be violent. Not really.
Podcast Introduction and Catching Up
Speaker 1Not really, though no, like I am the world's most patient person on the planet I take a lot of junk before I get ugly. So you know like 80 people must have pushed past me before I said something Right before you finally got yeah.
Speaker 2I have less tolerance than you. But I'm like you know, I let things go a lot and I let it go and I let it go, but then I'm like mm-mm.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2There's certain things, but, yeah, we and then last night we went and got our tattooees. Tattooees, we're gonna, you know, post those, I guess, today on, uh, our regular facebook, but we'll we got some little cute videos yeah them before this airs.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, and then we'll.
Speaker 2We'll get them out so everybody can see them. But they're adorable. They're the cutest thing there are homage to the podcast, yeah, and then we got them at, uh, monster inc. Not monsters incorporated now I n k NK. I'm sure there's screams there, but In Ponchatoula Louisiana. Right, yeah, yeah, and Justin Millett did ours, and he is really good.
Speaker 1Is it Millett, or is it?
Speaker 2Millett? I don't know, is it Millett?
Speaker 1I don't know. Did you ask?
Speaker 2him. No, I did not, justin. What is your? How?
Speaker 1do you pronounce your last last name?
Speaker 2we don't know how to pronounce your last name like we be messing things up all the time.
Speaker 1Right, we swear we're from. We're well, we're not from here, we're from the north. However, we've been here so long we should know how to say stuff there's a lot of last names here that are like surprisingly questionable, yeah, questionable. So richard richard, yeah, robert robert. Yep All those Herbert a bear. There's so many so many, so many.
Speaker 2But yeah, he did an awesome job and you know we want to get out at Monster Inc and Ponchatoula.
Speaker 1And we're going to tag him on Facebook and stuff. So you know you can always go check out our Facebook page and find him if you decide you like the work.
Speaker 2Yeah, Like he'll get you a nice little tattoo. He's funny too, uh-huh yeah.
Speaker 1Chatter.
Speaker 2So what are you telling us about today, Pearl Today?
Speaker 1we are going to venture back into the world of a missing person.
Speaker 2Okay, yeah we kind of went off we did cryptids yeah, a little spooky stuff, little cryptids, little granny magic yeah.
Speaker 1So I feel like I've got to get back to where we started.
Speaker 2Back to our roots. That's how they say roots down here. Roots, it is true.
Speaker 1I'm going to go to the store and get a cold drink, yeah, while you make some groceries and make some groceries that is like the weirdest thing to me. Like are you literally standing in there creating these groceries? Nope, no, no. I'm going to buy some though, right, but that one's always made me laugh. Yep, and roots, and roots, and then you got me who's over here? Porch, porch.
Speaker 2It seeps into your soul the longer you're here, like the swamp just takes you down with it, right it?
Speaker 1starts changing you.
Speaker 2It's like some soylent green type stuff, right exactly and like there's a little bit of southern that comes out, and then I'll be saying something about the parish and I'm like that was chalmette. Where did that come from? I didn't even live there, I didn't even live in Chalmette. Where did that come from?
Speaker 1All right. So our person today that we're going to talk about is Athena Joy Curry. I do just want to disclose that I'm going to talk about her sister a lot, because a lot of the information that I have is like stuff from her family and mainly her sister. Her name is spelled A-I-S-H-A. Google says that I'm supposed to pronounce that Aisha, so that's what I'm going to do, but I apologize tremendously if I say it wrong, I mean, I guess.
Speaker 2So when you say it out loud like that and the way it's spelled, it does yeah, aisha so we're gonna go with it.
Speaker 1I also do want to point out that there's I'm not really positive of her eight, her exact age at the time of missing there's some stuff that says 20, some says 21. I've even seen one thing that said 22.
Speaker 2So yeah, sometimes it's so hard, it's really hard to find it. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1So I couldn't find her exact birth date, so we're just going to roll with it. She's somewhere between 21, 22 when she disappeared. Okay Okay, so Athena was the youngest of five kids.
Speaker 2She grew up in Oregon, your favorite. I love Oregon. I want to move back up there.
Speaker 1Yeah, she was involved in softball and she ran track at Grant High School. But then Athena moved in with her older sister, aisha, in Duluth, georgia, during her senior year because she wanted to get state tuition rates for college and that's kind of just where she wanted to go, so she wanted to be over there to do all of that. Once she graduated, athena actually enrolled in the University of Phoenix with goals to become a pediatrician. She had a son.
Speaker 1The time that she went missing he was 16 months old and his name was King. Oh yeah, and he's so cute. I bet there's going to be pictures which he's so grown now, but he's also still cute. We'll make sure we post that stuff, yeah, anyway, even after King was born, she spent those next 16 months being a doting mom and working really hard to continue her schooling and progressing towards her goals. Her sister, of course, was there to support her as she continued to plan for her future. A few days before her disappearance, athena dropped the news on her sister that she was planning to move out. She decided that she and King would move in with King's father, yusef, so they could reside together as a family unit.
Speaker 1So she just wanted to get them all under the same roof. Aisha explained to NBC News. I was a little shocked because I didn't think they were back together. I didn't even think that they had been communicating yeah. So I was like, oh, that's a little weird. And then, all of a sudden, she's like oh, by the way, we're moving, I mean after spending all that time with her sister since leaving Oregon. Yeah, and I'm sure her sister probably would have preferred that she just stayed with her. It probably would have been an easier situation.
Speaker 1I mean because it was already working out and she was going to school and stuff, but shaking it up a little bit Right. So Athena and her son use public transportation to meet Yusef, 45 minutes away, just before Memorial Day weekend in 2011. They plan to spend the holiday weekend together and to look at rental properties, so he had, I believe it's an apartment that he lived in in Atlanta, so that's where she went. The last time that Aisha spoke to Athena was just after midnight on Friday, may 27. She explained that the reason for the call was to check on her sister and her nephew, since they had been with Yusef for a few days, and when Aisha had spoke to her mom that day, her mom was like you know what? I have this really weird, sick feeling yeah, and I'm worried about your sister so she's like, let me call her.
Speaker 1So aisha calls and she gained some reassurance from her sister that everything was okay. She said she sounded like the call had woke her up. So she was a little groggy sounding, yeah, but that was literally the last time she spoke to her. But oh no, athena was like no, we're good, we're fine, you know, just a little sleepy but we all right. So athena and king were supposed to return to aisha's home on monday. When they did not, aisha tried to call athena's phone, but it was off. It was not until tuesday.
Speaker 1So four days later yeah, that yusuf reached out to aisha via text asking if she had had any contact with Athena and if she had, please have her call me oh my god, I hate that.
Speaker 2Like you know, you know something's wrong, like you know something is wrong and then all of a sudden, yeah, he steps in and goes oh, have you heard anything?
Speaker 1yeah, well, her phone's been off for four days yeah, so he tells aisha that they had an argument around three in the morning, the, so she called her that friday, the 27th, at midnight. Yes, by 3 am they're fighting, so they're having an argument was she groggy, tired, or was she?
Speaker 2had she been crying?
Speaker 1probably that was my next question was like was this something that was just like continued on until 3 am? Yeah, did it start then? She wasn't really sleeping, she was sad, yeah, upset, who knows. But he said that Athena left the house, didn't take anything with her, not even her son no, she was a doting mother.
Speaker 2That absolutely no right.
Speaker 116 month old yeah, who obviously was living with her full time and seeing the dad whenever they were all together.
Speaker 2She's just gonna up and leave him, but they just moved back in together, so that, well, they hadn't even moved back in she was just spending the weekend there.
Speaker 1She was supposed to go back to her sister's house. Oh, she was just spending the holiday weekend with him and looking at rental property. That's right okay, so so they're trying to get their plan together so that they can move in together. So she was just staying at his apartment. Yeah, so she was just at his place, his current place for that weekend, yeah that's suspicious.
Speaker 1Sussy, sussy. Now you also have to consider her and her son got there via public transportation. She does not have a car, so she just left on foot Right. That makes no sense. In the middle of the night. No, I could get. I'm mad I might go outside, try to cool off. I'm not leaving Right the area and if I am I'm calling somebody to come get me and my kid. Be like I can't stay here. I know it's the middle of the night.
Speaker 2I'm so sorry, Please help me, you're not going to just take off and disappear into the night on foot Right, I'm mad but I ain't done Right. I'm not stupid and I don't think she was either, you know you have aspirations to be a pediatrician. You're a smart woman.
Speaker 1You're a smart. You're a smart girl. Aisha told NBC that she immediately called police and searches began, but there was no sign of Athena. Aisha further explained that it was my worst nightmare come true. Something happened to Athena. I just know it. She didn't just walk away from her life, from her son. King was her pride and joy.
Speaker 2She would never, ever leave him right and I wonder if they, like her and yusef, had had a rocky past, which is why they weren't together in the first place. You know, yeah, well. Or if it was just a situation of okay, I know, we have a kid together, let's try to make things work.
Speaker 1Situation right, well, I mean even in the case of a rocky past. That may be the reason they're trying to make things work you know, atlanta police sergeant, sergeant abare or maybe it's herbert probably abare. Told an nbc news affiliate, wxia, probably a bear. Told an NBC News affiliate, wxia, that it was reported. The argument was over text messages that Athena saw on Yousef's phone from another woman. Of course it was. Some sources say it was text messages and pictures, so we know what happens when people be sending pictures.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1And I know when to send picture girl. Nbc reported that Yousef is a person of interest, since he is the last person who saw and spoke to Athena, but also because of the relationship and child that they shared. However, there are other news outlets that report the complete opposite. They say that he has not been named a person of interest. So it's conflicting as to whether or not he was or he wasn't.
Domestic Violence Background & Concerns
Speaker 1Yusef himself told WXIA honestly anything could have happened. I am her boyfriend. I was with her. I can't blame them if they think that I am, but they can think what they want to think. I'm not trying to convince you or anyone. I'm innocent and that was a direct quote from him. And that was a direct quote from him. He further explained he knew something was wrong when she didn't return after their fight. So Yusef himself denies involvement in her disappearance and there was some confirmation that family members did say that he did participate in searches for Athena. Does that mean he's innocent? No, no. Does any of this make him guilty? No, but I mean it's obviously the first line of investigation. Yes, he's the last person who saw her. Whether they were boyfriend and girlfriend or not, you're the last person who had eyes on her, so they're always going to be like questions.
Speaker 2Yeah, you're going to be brought in for questioning and interrogation and all that Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1So, in an earlier article by WSB-TVsef said Athena stormed off wearing only a tank top and shorts. According to this same article, yousef did not report her missing to the police or her family until four days later, which he didn't report them to the police. He told Aisha Right, and she did it, so police started taking another look at this whole case in 2017, because she was still missing at that point.
Speaker 2So that's six years later and they're they're like let's, let's look at this again yeah, and there's no way that she would be gone for four days and not come back for her son right like there's an.
Speaker 1Aisha told WSB TV that it didn't make any sense that she would leave at three in the morning and Yusef would not go after her. Yeah, like, why would you not walk out and go?
Speaker 2come back here, right, don't be silly, come back inside what's going on with the Atlanta Policeanta police department, because you know this goes back to the cooper case and all the stuff that they got away with. Girl, I don't know. But atlanta, come on now yeah.
Speaker 1so according to those police, the couple's relationship was full of abuse and yusef had previously been arrested and accused of beating Athena. They further explained that he had also threatened to shock her with a stun gun the day she gave birth to their son. There's another article that says he actually did so. I don't know if he did it or he didn't do it, man, but he at least threatened to on the day she gave birth.
Speaker 2ladies, ladies, do not. Do not listen to a man when he says I will change if he has done something bad to you. Leave, please leave, because I I have gone through the situation and I was in it for years and like it's never going to get better, right Ever, don't do it, run, run. Yes, please.
Speaker 1Well, let me add this for you. In a 2015 article by WXIA, yousef told them I've never touched a woman in my life until Athena.
Speaker 2Until Athena, never in my life.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's bullshit Right.
Speaker 2I'm calling it. What about her? Triggered you to lay your hands?
Speaker 1on her and use a stun gun while she was giving birth to your son? Well, not, not just that. Yeah, according to wsbtv, athena's family believe that you, yusef, obviously is very capable of hurting her, and at the time of the 2017 article, he was in jail due to accusations of not just robbery but for also beating and strangling his current girlfriend. So he's in there, accused of beating and strangling his current girlfriend, had done things to Athena that he was accused and arrested for. So is he going to blame her?
Speaker 2but never in his life, yeah it was because of her I started doing this, so now I'm going to do it to another one, right?
Speaker 1so now we're going to continue the pattern that athena started because that was her fault. I've never, I've never touched a woman before that. Yeah, that's cool, do I think that there was aggression on both sides? Sure, there's nothing that says Athena ever beat him, though, right? So keep your hands to yourself.
Speaker 2Yep, keep your hands to yourself on both sides. It's like crazy, obviously like we've said.
Speaker 1Throw a pan of cookies in a spatula.
Speaker 2I didn't mean to.
Speaker 1Don't do that either no. It'll still get you in trouble, right? Obviously, like we've been saying over and over and over again, athena's family also does not believe that Athena would have ever walked out on her son, even if she was walking out of her relationship, right?
Speaker 2And not come back for four days.
Speaker 1Yeah, to get him aisha explained this to nbc, saying quote I have no doubt that she walked outside to cool off from their argument. But where would she go? It was the middle of the night, nothing was open and she didn't have a car. She would have never. Just walked away from her son. It just keeps going back to that, Like that boy was her, you know.
Speaker 1Her world, yeah, yeah everything Like she was literally leaving everything, leaving that kid, and nobody believed she would ever do that. Athena's sister believes someone knows something somewhere. She finds it hard to think someone has kept this dark secret to themselves this whole time. She's created a Facebook page called Missing Athena Curry. She also has a website dedicated to her sister's case, which you can find a link to via the Facebook page. Aisha eventually adopted her nephew King, after he spent some time living between their families, so he was living between his grandparents on his dad's side and then also family members onena's side of this, and so, um, but at some point aisha was able to that's, get custody of her nephew stable home life so there's tons of pictures of him, including some homecoming pictures for freshmen homecoming stuff.
Speaker 2I can't wait to see him.
Speaker 1Yeah, they're, they're all over his, all over the facebook for his mom and and it's really sweet that she always posts these things like she's talking to her and being like you know, look at him.
Vegas Adventures with Mom
Speaker 1You would be so proud. You know that's so sweet and I'm sure she would be. Yeah, and he looks so much like his mom and, according to Aisha, even though King does not remember his mother, if you want to know what Athena was like, then you should spend some time with her son. Aisha makes it a point to tell King everything about his mom, which is great, but she's like he has her personality and she says and it's a strong one. But as she continued to explain, I get a little glimpse of athena and king. All the time. He has her fearless spirit and physically I notice little things like he has her little nose and even her feet. She had very flat feet and his feet are just like hers.
Speaker 1Oh, and probably has like her mannerisms and stuff too, without even like I know, just like just from picture, like the different pictures I've seen of her and then seeing pictures of him, like on that facebook page when I saw like the homecoming stuff and whatever, and when he smiles, I mean he, he looks just like her.
Speaker 1Oh so, at the time of the article published by nbc news in 2020, her sister explained nine years later, we have no answers. At this point, I don't believe she's alive, but I pray every day that we will find out what happened to her. When athena disappeared, she was five foot eight inches tall and weighed 150 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. She is an african-american woman, very beautiful african-american woman, and she had a piercing in her nose and her lower lip, so she's cool right, absolutely she had a tattoo that said king care on her left arm, as well as a bow wrapped around that same arm.
Speaker 1On her right wrist was a rose and the word Rocky. She also had a music note on the left side of her neck and a tribal symbol on top of her left hand.
Speaker 2So all things Right. She has some cool tattoos then.
Speaker 1Yeah, very distinguishing marks.
Speaker 2And my thing is, like you know they were at his apartment. If you've ever lived in an apartment, even if they're like Everybody can hear you fighting, even if they're really nice apartments and they're like more soundproof, you can still hear people fighting.
Legacy and Appeal for Information
Speaker 2Oh yeah, so You're not you're keeping your neighbors up if y'all are arguing at three o'clock in the morning, right? So the neighbors, the ones above you, yeah, somebody heard something, somebody knew something. So yeah, did they see her, you know? Did somebody see her storm out of the apartment? Did somebody see her, you know? Or walking in the parking lot or hear loud noises like somebody was trying to. You know, do something to her. Yeah, so like somebody out there knows something absolutely I.
Speaker 1I firmly believe the same thing they're just afraid to say anything, for whatever reason. Not sure what the reason is, but you know, yeah, just like I will say not all snitches, get stitches.
Speaker 2Exactly Not all of them. You can snitch and be okay, yeah.
Speaker 1I mean, it's just like insane and sad that you know here we are in 2025. So what's that? It's? It was may 27th, so we're not quite to the 14 year mark, but we're really close, yeah, almost there.
Speaker 2We're about to roll into april so she's.
Speaker 1She's been gone quite a long time, so so obviously, at this point I want to say that if anybody has any information, please call the Atlanta Police Department Missing Persons Unit at 404-546-4235. Or you can call the Atlanta Police Crime Stoppers at 404-577-8477.
Speaker 1Hopefully somebody says something at some point because her family deserves to know her son. Most importantly, her son deserves to know what happened to his mom. And if, I mean, her family doesn't think that she's alive, but if, by some weird circumstance, she is like something happened and she's got like some amnesia or something, yeah, doesn't even remember who she is like, who knows?
Speaker 2right, like somebody's heard something or seen something. So absolutely and you know. If you're in a situation where you're being abused or something like that has happened, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline. It's 800-799-7233. Or you can text BEGIN to 88788. So that way you know if you are unable to get on the phone, because somebody's always there listening to you. You can text.
Speaker 1Yeah, like your situation where somebody was always at work with you you weren't even allowed to go to work by yourself for crying out loud Like he was somewhere when you were there.
Speaker 2Lurking Yep.
Speaker 1Been there, done that.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's crazy crazy also something I want to just bring up because I did. I consistently look for people of color to try to help get that stuff out, because what I find is whether they're missing, murdered, like that. It is so hard to find information, like you will find an article here and there and it's all because their family reached out to someone and, you know, did something that you can read about, so that you know this person, you know you get to hear about this person or whatever. But there are so many instances where I will look up something and it'll have their name, their date of birth, the date they went missing, and sometimes it'll say whoever went missing from a bar and blah, blah blah, or their home and blah, blah blah, and that's it yeah, there's no like story to it.
Speaker 2But also then you got to look into police reports. Are they really reporting everything? Are they taking the statements down that people are saying, because sometimes that gets skipped over too.
Speaker 1And it's yeah, even in the simplest of situations like my daughter's car accident right, where they took the statement of the other person right and it's in the police report and hers is nowhere to be found.
Speaker 1Like crap, like that constantly happens and I don't think it's OK at all. Nope, like people just being marginalized. She, in her instance, I said it's because you're young and the other people involved in this car accident were not. Yep, they were older people. Obviously. The only, the only people here that are telling the truth are the ones that are not, you know, still in their teen years, right, she's 19 and they're in their 50s, so yeah, of course the 50 year old's telling the truth right, and the teenager was at fault, which she was not no, she was not currently.
Speaker 1The insurance company is because they're tired of having to go back and forth between everybody, and that happens with a lot of young people. Yeah, it does, and so they're claiming mutual fault. But we requested for them to get some camera footage because we can't pick it up ourselves. They won't let us. Yeah, funny, funny. So yeah, fun times. We're like, don't mess with me. I have a true crime podcast.
Speaker 2Exactly I'll put you on my true crime podcast. I have footage, yeah, but it is. There's a lot of stories that have people of color, like you said, and information is missing.
Speaker 1So I've tried to dig and find stuff yeah, it's hard because it doesn't matter how much you dig, as many places you can find. I'm like if I find something that says a family member said whatever, then I start digging in the family member trying to, trying to figure something out where can I find more information about what happened to this person? And it's so sad so it's like I almost feel like just compiling a bunch of those and being like let me tell you this person's name.
Speaker 1And then I'm just going to post a million pictures.
Speaker 2There you go. We'll just be like the missing persons thing and just put a bunch of pictures which I've been trying to post weekly.
Speaker 1Randomly A missing person. But heck, even those have more information than some of the stuff that I've been trying to research.
Speaker 2So we'll have to start. We'll have to start pulling some from those sites and, just, even with the small amount of information, start posting, because you know it's disheartening.
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Speaker 1It is, it really is, and that was a good case though, and I hope you know somebody can hope somebody gets some help from it, somebody can help them, but also that this, this story, helps you realize. Maybe I shouldn't be in this relationship, maybe I shouldn't be in this situation. Let me do better for myself and get out of here and my kids.
Speaker 1Yeah, especially if kids are involved. Yep, you're important. Yes, those babies that don't have no choice but to be wherever you are are even more important. Yep, yep. Well, hopefully everyone enjoyed this. Use the word heavy, like you did.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was a heavy episode, this heavy episode.
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