Vanished Voices, The Overlooked
Silence can be louder than any scream. Vanished Voices is a true crime podcast that dives into the cases of the missing and the murdered whose stories were buried or ignored. They are echoes, whispers, and warnings from those who can no longer speak for themselves. Through deep research and heartfelt storytelling, this is where the silence is broken, and the vanished are finally heard.
Episodes
27 episodes
Who Gets Remembered? Evelyn Hernandez and the Media Divide
In May 2002, 24-year-old Evelyn Hernandez vanished from San Francisco just days before giving birth to her second child. Her 5-year-old son, Alex, disappeared with her. Months later, Evelyn’s partial remains were found floating in the Bay, her ...
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Vanished: The Night Tyarra Williams Disappeared
On January 7, 2016, nineteen-year-old Tyarra Williams stepped out of her apartment in Greensboro, North Carolina to visit a friend nearby. It was supposed to be a quick visit — just a short walk across the apartment complex. She told her boyfri...
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Jermain Charlo: Missing from Missoula
On the night of June 15, 2018, 23-year-old Jermain Charlo — a young Indigenous mother and a citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes — was seen in downtown Missoula, Montana near the Badlander bar. Surveillance footage...
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Two Hours, No Trace: Najah Ferrell
On March 15, 2019, 30-year-old Najah Ferrell left her home in Avon, Indiana in the dark of the early morning—heading to her third day of orientation at a new job that was supposed to help her build a better future for her kids. She had five chi...
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Silenced in San Antonio: The Murder of Cecilia Huerta Gallegos
In July 2019, 30-year-old mother of four Cecilia Huerta Gallegos vanished without a trace from her San Antonio home. Security cameras inside the house captured her entering the bedroom she shared with her husband, Reyes Gallegos — but never com...
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Rocelyn Gabriel: Lost in the Cold in Portage la Prairie
On a frigid January night in 2014, 20-year-old Rocelyn Gabriel — Ojibway, bright, full of plans — vanished into the blizzard in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. Hours later, she was found behind an industrial recycling depot, barely alive, wearing...
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The Last Login: The Disappearance of Jalesa Chantell Reynolds
On February 22, 2010, 18-year-old Jalesa Chantell Reynolds followed her normal routine in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. She attended class. She visited the local library. She logged into Facebook.Then she logged off — and never came hom...
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Vanished in Laveen: Cynthia Acevedo
On August 15, 2019, 39-year-old Cynthia Acevedo was seen walking near a cemetery in Laveen, Arizona, within the Gila River Indian Community. She never made it home.Two weeks later, when Cynthia’s mother reported her missing, investigator...
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The Battleground Search: Rita Papakee
In January 2015, Rita Janelle Papakee was last seen at the Meskwaki casino in central Iowa. What should have been an ordinary night ended in silence. Days passed. Then weeks. And before urgency ever took hold, a mother, sister, and community me...
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A Kindness Betrayed: The Disappearance of Kristyn Richerson
In May 2018, 51-year-old Kristyn “Krash” Richerson packed her red Toyota pickup for Rocklahoma — a music festival she loved. She never arrived. What began as a weekend of excitement unraveled into a haunting mystery involving confli...
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Unsolved in Nevada: Anna Marie Scott
In the Nevada desert outside Reno, a burned vehicle was discovered. Inside the trunk was the body of Anna Marie Scott.Anna was a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, and her death was both violent and deliberate. Her car had been set...
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End of the Road: The Disappearance of Emmilee Risling
Emmilee Risling was a college graduate, a traditional dancer, a devoted mother, and a tireless advocate for Native women in crisis. Enrolled in the Hoopa Valley Tribe with deep ties to the Yurok and Karuk peoples, she spent her life giving back...
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Holding Space: A Holiday Message from Vanished Voices
This week, Vanished Voices is pausing for the holidays.Instead of a full case, we’re holding space — for the people who are still missing, for the families who continue to wait, and for the stories that deserve patience, care, a...
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A Van in a Wheat Field: The Disappearance of Sara Nicole Graham
On the morning of February 4, 2015, 18-year-old Sara Nicole Graham left her home in Fairmont, North Carolina, to go to work. She never arrived.Hours later, her father’s white Chevrolet Astro van was found locked and abandoned in a wheat ...
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Can You Please Hurry?
When 25-year-old Keyona Griffin whispered into a 911 phone call that someone was trying to kill her, she gave her name, her location, and begged for help. “He’s trying to kill me… he already killed my auntie— can you please hurry?” But...
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Blanket of Silence: The Murder of Lakota Renville
In October 2005, 22-year-old Lakota Renville — a quiet, compassionate young woman from the Sisseton–Wahpeton Oyate tribe — was found murdered and discarded in a vacant lot in Independence, Missouri. Wrapped in carpet padding and a distinctive s...
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Cold Case Cracked - The Murder of Robin Lawrence
This week on Vanished Voices, we bring you a special crossover episode from Crime Clueless, another true crime podcast from our Not Today Studios. Crime Clueless is hosted by Jenna, who is joined by her sister co co-hosts, all completely new to...
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Unsolved on Chicago's South Side: The Cases of Wright, Gulley, Bohanan, and Ward
Between 2016 and 2017, four young Black residents of Chicago Lawn — Joanna Wright, Marlo Gulley, Chante Bohanan, and Kenosohn Ward — disappeared or were killed within just 15 months of each other. All were last seen or found within blocks of th...
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Vanished on the Highway: The Unsolved Disappearance of Cara Marie Cox
In early May, 2022, 41-year-old Muscogee (Creek) Nation member Cara Marie Cox set out from Seminole, Oklahoma in her boyfriend’s semi truck, leaving behind her bright-green Honda Del Sol. Her car was found abandoned at a Love’s Travel Stop off ...
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What Happened to Henny Scott?
Fourteen-year-old Henny Scott disappeared on a freezing December night near Lame Deer, Montana. Twenty days later, her body was found just 200 yards from where she was last seen. Officials called it hypothermia. Her family says that’s not the f...
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To Know Her Was to Love Her: The Story of Keeshae Jacobs
On September 26, 2016, 21-year-old Keeshae Jacobs texted her mom to say she’d arrived safely at a friend’s house. She ended the message with “I love you.” That was the last anyone ever heard from her. In this episode, we fo...
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Her Name Was Sonya Ivanoff
In August of 2003, nineteen-year-old Sonya Ivanoff walked home through the quiet streets of Nome, Alaska — a college student, basketball player, and proud Inupiaq woman with her whole life ahead of her. Two days later, her body was found on the...
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Still Missing: Laverda Sorrell
On the night of July 4, 2002, 44-year-old Laverda Sorrell, a Diné mother of three, celebrated her 15th wedding anniversary with dinner in Gallup, New Mexico. Later that night, her husband said he dropped her off at her workplace in Fort Defianc...
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