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Every day, people vanish without a trace. Strange disappearance delves into these chilling true stories, exploring the baffling cases that defy explanation and leave more questions than answers. From unexplained...
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Every day, people vanish without a trace. Strange disappearance delves into these chilling true stories, exploring the baffling cases that defy explanation and leave more questions than answers. From unexplained vanishings to missing persons, we meticulously examine the facts, theories, and the enduring mysteries surrounding those who simply disappeared.
Strange disappearance is your daily deep dive into the unknown, offering a compelling blend of investigative journalism and narrative storytelling. We go beyond the headlines to uncover the human element behind each case, respecting the gravity of every missing individual and the impact on their loved ones. Prepare for thought-provoking discussions and unsettling details as we confront the perplexing nature of unexplained disappearances.
New episodes arrive every single day, Monday through Sunday, promptly at 7:00 PM. Each installment provides a fresh perspective on unsolved mysteries and missing persons cases, giving you a consistent source of gripping content. If you're fascinated by true crime, unsolved disappearances, and the dark side of human experience, this podcast is for you.
Tune in to Strange disappearance and join us in searching for answers where none seem to exist. Subscribe now and never miss a single perplexing story.
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Strange disappearance is your daily deep dive into the unknown, offering a compelling blend of investigative journalism and narrative storytelling. We go beyond the headlines to uncover the human element behind each case, respecting the gravity of every missing individual and the impact on their loved ones. Prepare for thought-provoking discussions and unsettling details as we confront the perplexing nature of unexplained disappearances.
New episodes arrive every single day, Monday through Sunday, promptly at 7:00 PM. Each installment provides a fresh perspective on unsolved mysteries and missing persons cases, giving you a consistent source of gripping content. If you're fascinated by true crime, unsolved disappearances, and the dark side of human experience, this podcast is for you.
Tune in to Strange disappearance and join us in searching for answers where none seem to exist. Subscribe now and never miss a single perplexing story.
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26 SEP 2026 · The Chair That Waited: Why Angela Never Returned
The centerpiece was not a mistake - it sat in Angela Sullivan’s chair with her napkin unfolded, her wine poured, and her name card propped against the glass, while her car remained in the parking lot and her purse stayed on the front seat. What happened between the wedding photos at 4:15 PM and the last phone signal at 4:58 PM that December 7, 2019 - and why did someone place flowers in her seat as if to mark an absence to come?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the greeting line at Saint Catherine’s to the reception at Holloway Pines Event Hall, tracing Angela’s last known movements, the vendor records that pointed to one man, and the evidence that led investigators to a cistern eleven miles east of town; could a delivery receipt, a four-second Wi‑Fi ping, and a moved centerpiece be the architecture of a crime?
Person: Angela Sullivan
Date: December 7, 2019
Location: Holloway Pines Event Hall
Person: Jason Doyle
Status: Person of interest
- Angela was photographed in the greeting line at Saint Catherine’s at 4:15 PM on December 7, 2019.
- Angela’s phone registered its last active signal from the Holloway Pines parking lot at 4:58 PM.
- Table seven, seat fourteen held a glass-based floral arrangement placed deliberately in Angela’s reserved spot.
- Jason Doyle, age 47, owner of Doyle Utility Services, had accessed Holloway Pines through the vendor corridor for service calls in March 2018 and August 2019.
- A septic contractor found something investigators feared beside an unused cistern eleven miles east of town sixteen days before Christmas. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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25 SEP 2026 · The Name Tag That Sentenced Him: Missing After Fourth-Grade Trip
A laminated name tag made by a nine-year-old daughter was found dry on a wet path 53 days after the father who wore it vanished; his phone was turned off five minutes after a four-minute work call at 1:58 p.m. on October 15, 2011 - how did a single school name tag become the crucial clue to a disappearance that ended in murder?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline from the Delvane Nature Center field trip to the discovery in Sutter Marsh and the subsequent investigation, tracing the movements, the missed counts, and the evidence that tied a routine day to a violent end. What happened in the hour between that phone call and the buses pulling away?
Person: Thomas Romano
Date: October 15, 2011
Location: Delvane Nature Center / Sutter Marsh
Status: Deceased; body found buried 53 days later
Case: Missing after school field trip; head trauma
- At 1:58 p.m. Thomas Romano made a four-minute phone call to Hamlin Supply confirming a parts order.
- Romano was wearing a laminated name tag reading "THOMAS ROMANO, GRADE 4, MRS. PETLEY'S CLASS" made by his daughter and wore it all day.
- School buses left at approximately 2:15 p.m.; the three-count protocol tracked 23 children and did not include a parallel adult headcount.
- Romano's phone was manually turned off at 2:03 p.m., five minutes after his last outgoing call; it did not move again and was 18 miles from his home.
- A walker found the laminated name tag on a gravel path at Sutter Marsh 53 days later; the tag was dry while the surrounding gravel was wet, and the lanyard had been cut cleanly. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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24 SEP 2026 · She Walked to the Restroom - Found Folded Clothes, No Woman
A woman left an ER bay at 8:00 PM and vanished; the next morning a tote bag was found standing upright in an 18-inch gap with her folded clothes, keys, wallet and planner perfectly dry despite a 31°F night - who arranged such a deliberate scene and why? What did that dry clothing, the placement of the bag, and the spiral planner hidden inside really mean for Gail Nelson's fate?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Gail Nelson walked out of her mother’s ER bay to the discovery of the bag at dawn, laying out the physical evidence and the unanswered question that drove the investigation: how was a woman who never left loose ends removed and then meticulously recreated in a tote bag?
Person: Gail Marie Nelson
Date: October 7, 2003
Location: Garfield Heights Medical Center, Portwell, Ohio
Age: 28
Investigator: Detective Richard Duncan
- Gail Nelson signed in with her mother at 7:14 PM and left the bay to find the restroom around 8:00 PM, never returning.
- A canvas tote was found wedged upright in an 18-inch gap between a dumpster and a cinder-block wall at the east loading dock the next morning.
- Inside the tote were a cream cardigan, dark jeans, white socks and a bra - all folded on original creases and showing no outdoor dirt.
- Additional items in the bag included car keys with a blue fob, Gail Nelson’s wallet with ID, a cracked cell phone, and a spiral planner.
- The night temperature was 31°F; the bottom of the bag showed condensation darkening while the clothes inside were completely dry. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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23 SEP 2026 · The Boat Came Back Empty - What Hid Patricia Dempsey's Last Hours?
A fourteen-foot aluminum boat drifted past a county grader at 10:47 AM on September 4, 2011 with a folded rain jacket, a warm thermos, two fishing rods, and a dead cell phone-yet its owner, 54-year-old Patricia Anne Dempsey, was nowhere to be found. Who staged that ordinary-looking scene so deliberately that a treated, dry-lined boot three days later proved someone had planted evidence rather than lost it by accident?
In this episode, we present the timeline from Patricia leaving Granger Road at 5:40 AM to the boat spotted at 10:47 AM, the immediate search, and the puzzling forensic detail that shifted the case toward staging and intent - could the neatness and those precise choices be the key to her last hours?
Person: Patricia Anne Dempsey
Date: September 4, 2011
Location: Aldermere River / Granger Road launch
Status: Missing, boat recovered unattended
Case: Staged evidence indicated by treated boot lining
- Boat sighted drifting unattended at 10:47 AM by Sherry Olson, a grader operator.
- Last notebook entry dated September 4, left at 5:40 AM noting "Bass moving near the north flat. Flat calm."
- Items in boat: folded rain jacket on the tiller, warm thermos, two fishing rods, open tackle box, dead cell phone.
- Volunteer Phil Acosta found an olive-green size 9 pull-on boot tangled in branches 60 yards from the channel edge on September 7.
- State lab found the boot's interior lining treated with a silicone-based hydrophobic compound, indicating it was placed dry into the river. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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22 SEP 2026 · The Left Shoe on Shelter Creek Road: Six Years Buried Truth
A single white canvas sneaker with a teal stripe sat alone on a concrete slab in August 2019 - six years after that slab was poured and six years after a twenty-two-year-old named Cheryl Powell vanished on a summer evening. How did a shoe show up years later to reopen a case that had sixty-one reports and a receipt that sat unnoticed in a file?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline, the people who last saw Cheryl, and the physical traces that remained in the investigation, asking how small details like a pair of shoes, a stamped receipt, and a ping from a cell tower can change everything.
Person: Cheryl Powell
Date: August 8, 2013
Location: Dunnfield Street / Paulson Avenue Community Center / Shelter Creek Road
Investigator: Detective Eric Parker
Physical Trace: receipt for industrial trash bags and 50 pounds of hydraulic cement
- Cheryl Powell was 22 years old when she left her second-floor apartment at 6:47 PM on August 8, 2013.
- Her phone pinged a cell tower two blocks from the apartment at 7:02 PM and then produced no further signals.
- Cheryl had attended Thursday game night for 156 consecutive weeks and had never missed once.
- A white canvas sneaker with a teal stripe was found on a concrete slab in an overgrown lot on Shelter Creek Road in August 2019.
- A receipt in the case file recorded a cash purchase the morning after her disappearance for industrial trash bags and 50 pounds of hydraulic cement at a hardware store on Merchant Avenue. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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21 SEP 2026 · Glasses on a Post, No Footprints: The Calloway Disappearance
A pair of wire-framed bifocals sat lenses-up on a fence post at the eastern edge of Calloway Reservoir, dry despite six inches of rainwater pooled at the post’s base and no footprints in the surrounding mud-sixty yards from the nearest trail. How did Todd Burke’s glasses get there with no tracks leading to or away from them, and what did that silence hide beneath eleven feet of dark water?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Todd’s last confirmed sighting at a barbecue to the discovery at the reservoir, tracing the people, places, and objects that shifted the investigation-his three handwritten tortoise-feeding notebooks, a prepaid anonymous phone call, and eyewitness accounts that place him miles from his truck. Which of these clues points toward what really happened to Todd?
Person: Todd Burke
Date: July 18, 2017
Location: Calloway Reservoir, eastern edge
Status: Body recovered beneath eleven feet of water
Event: Pair of wire-framed bifocals found dry on fence post with no footprints nearby
- Todd kept three handwritten notebooks logging every feeding for his sulcata tortoise, Pepper.
- Neighbor Helen Pratt fed Pepper at 6:20 PM on July 18, 2017, after Todd failed to return and did not answer calls.
- The last message from Todd was a text at 2:14 PM on July 18, 2017: "heading out for a bit. talk soon."
- Witness Doug Parrish saw Todd on foot outside Millhaven Food Mart the evening of July 17, 2017, about 1.5 miles from Todd’s parked gray Nissan pickup.
- On July 18, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Todd received a 4 minute 12 second call from a prepaid phone purchased cash 14 months earlier at a pharmacy three blocks from where Parrish saw him. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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20 SEP 2026 · The Packed Suitcase, The Open Door, and the Missing Sweet Tea
A familiar porch ritual is gone: Frances Hughes’s glass of sweet tea vanished, the front door stood four inches ajar, and a pair of bifocals lay half-buried in the flower bed with the left arm snapped off-tiny details that signaled everything was wrong. How did a 62-year-old woman with $63 in her bank account, an untouched car in the carport, and a 12-day supply of blood-pressure meds disappear while a large travel suitcase and passport were missing?
In this episode, we walk through the moment Lori Vickers called police and Detective Philip Weaver began cataloguing the scene at 41 Millhaven Road, laying out the items found and missing and the contradictions that puzzled family and neighbors. What do the packed burgundy Samsonite, the open carport door for 45 minutes, and DNA beneath fingernails ultimately reveal?
Person: Frances Hughes Hughes
Date: June 11, 2019
Location: 41 Millhaven Road
Age: 62
Investigator: Detective Philip Weaver
- Sweet tea that Frances kept on the porch railing every morning was missing on June 11, 2019.
- Front door was ajar four inches and the latch was not caught.
- A pair of bifocals with both lenses intact and the left arm snapped off was found half-buried in the impatiens mulch beside the front steps.
- A medium burgundy Samsonite roller suitcase and a passport were missing from the house; a navy overnight bag and a birth certificate in the fireproof box were not touched.
- Carport side door was observed open for approximately 45 minutes on Sunday morning between 7:00 and 8:15 by neighbor Doug Fenner. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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19 SEP 2026 · The Upright Sneaker: How a Single Shoe Broke Millhaven's Night
Fear tightened around a single clean, white canvas sneaker found standing upright in a dry drainage channel at 7:20 a.m. on a Tuesday in May - size seven, thin green stripe, laces tied - and the person who owned it, 24-year-old Judith Boyd, was three weeks from submitting her thesis and nowhere to be found. How did an undamaged shoe, tied and balanced with no signs of struggle, end up alone on that path?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Judith's last confirmed text at 12:52 a.m., the conflicting witness account that routed the search north, and the discovery that reframed the entire investigation. Which detail that surfaced during the three-week inquiry changes everything about that night?
Person: Judith Boyd
Date: May 7 (text at 12:52 a.m.; shoe found at 7:20 a.m. on a Tuesday in May)
Location: Millhaven Community Church drainage channel
Status: Missing (investigation lasted three weeks)
Witness: Pete Ingram (front porch account later described as uncertain)
- Judith was 24 years old and three weeks from submitting her environmental science thesis.
- Last confirmed contact: text at 12:52 a.m. reading "grabbing water be right back."
- GPS placed Judith's phone within 30 feet of the back door of the Dunmore Street house when the text was sent.
- Dawn Weber found the sneaker at 7:20 a.m.; Officer Kevin Pruitt photographed it before it was touched.
- The sneaker was size seven, white canvas with a thin green stripe, laces tied, clean and upright with no scuffs. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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18 SEP 2026 · The Empty Shoe at Sutter Creek: How Monica Vanished Between Doors
A single size-eight work shoe, upright and dry, was found in a corrugated culvert half a mile from any path - with no footprints leading to it. Detective Shannon Jones followed a trail of precise gaps: a camera offline for 16 days, a service door propped open six times in Monica Vogel’s outbound hour - what happened in the twelve steps between her car and her front door?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline, the physical clues, and the access records that frame Monica Vogel’s disappearance, and we track the few concrete anomalies that point to a person who knew the building and the schedule. How did one shoe end up sheltered from rain while everything else stayed where it belonged?
Person: Monica Vogel
Date: April 7 (last seen), April 9 (shoe found)
Location: Garfield Terrace, Sutter Creek drainage easement
Status: Missing; case progressed to a confession after 26 days
Detective: Shannon Jones
- Monica Vogel was 48 years old and had worked eleven years overnight at Dellard Medical Center.
- Monica left work at 6:14 a.m. and used her debit card at a grocery at 6:29 a.m.; she was gone by 6:41 a.m.
- Her Subaru returned to the driveway around 7:00 a.m.; keys, phone, purse, grocery bag with bread and dish soap remained at home.
- A single women’s canvas work shoe, size 8, marked “M. Vogel” on the heel tab, was found at 7:00 a.m. on April 9 in a culvert with dry interior and no approach prints.
- Dellard Medical Center’s east wing service entrance camera had been offline since March 22 (16 days) and the service door had been propped open on six separate mornings between 5:30-6:30 a.m, in the six weeks before April 7. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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17 SEP 2026 · The 181-Mile Slip: How a Trail Register Became a Murder Map
A hurried entry in a trail register and a Subaru odometer would become the only clear tracks in Tracy Walsh’s disappearance: she signed the Cutter Hollow log at 8:50 AM on March 8, 2019, but never walked the trail, and her car gained 181 miles in sixteen days. How did a blank emergency-contact line and a 181-mile arithmetic gap turn a routine morning into a murder map?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from Tracy’s timestamped photo and register entry to the abandoned Subaru and the river discovery, following the concrete clues that shifted the search from the ridge to the Gesner River. What do the miles, the gray pickup, and the boot in the willows actually add up to?
Person: Tracy Walsh
Date: March 8, 2019
Location: Cutter Hollow trailhead; Gesner River Notch
Vehicle odometer: 81,422 miles on Feb 28; 81,603 miles on Mar 15
Found evidence: size seven Merrell boot with sock and foot inside
- Tracy signed the Cutter Hollow trail register at 8:50 AM on March 8, 2019, leaving the emergency contact line blank.
- Her mechanic recorded the Subaru odometer at 81,422 miles on February 28, 2019.
- Sergeant Denise Rice impounded the Subaru on March 15, 2019, noting the odometer at 81,603 miles - an increase of 181 miles in sixteen days.
- A fisherwoman found a size seven Merrell boot with the sock and foot still inside in the willows at the Gesner River Notch on March 12, 2019, and called 9-1-1.
- Witness Pat Hensley reported seeing a woman at the Cutter Hollow trailhead speaking to a man in a gray pickup on the morning of March 8, 2019. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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Every day, people vanish without a trace. Strange disappearance delves into these chilling true stories, exploring the baffling cases that defy explanation and leave more questions than answers. From unexplained...
show more
Every day, people vanish without a trace. Strange disappearance delves into these chilling true stories, exploring the baffling cases that defy explanation and leave more questions than answers. From unexplained vanishings to missing persons, we meticulously examine the facts, theories, and the enduring mysteries surrounding those who simply disappeared.
Strange disappearance is your daily deep dive into the unknown, offering a compelling blend of investigative journalism and narrative storytelling. We go beyond the headlines to uncover the human element behind each case, respecting the gravity of every missing individual and the impact on their loved ones. Prepare for thought-provoking discussions and unsettling details as we confront the perplexing nature of unexplained disappearances.
New episodes arrive every single day, Monday through Sunday, promptly at 7:00 PM. Each installment provides a fresh perspective on unsolved mysteries and missing persons cases, giving you a consistent source of gripping content. If you're fascinated by true crime, unsolved disappearances, and the dark side of human experience, this podcast is for you.
Tune in to Strange disappearance and join us in searching for answers where none seem to exist. Subscribe now and never miss a single perplexing story.
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Strange disappearance is your daily deep dive into the unknown, offering a compelling blend of investigative journalism and narrative storytelling. We go beyond the headlines to uncover the human element behind each case, respecting the gravity of every missing individual and the impact on their loved ones. Prepare for thought-provoking discussions and unsettling details as we confront the perplexing nature of unexplained disappearances.
New episodes arrive every single day, Monday through Sunday, promptly at 7:00 PM. Each installment provides a fresh perspective on unsolved mysteries and missing persons cases, giving you a consistent source of gripping content. If you're fascinated by true crime, unsolved disappearances, and the dark side of human experience, this podcast is for you.
Tune in to Strange disappearance and join us in searching for answers where none seem to exist. Subscribe now and never miss a single perplexing story.
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