Six days before she disappeared, 21-year-old Hyun Jong “Cindy” Song posted a short poem on her Penn State web page. It was built on contradictions — sad but happy, hurt but fine — and she titled it “under construction.” On Halloween night 2001, a friend dropped Cindy off at her apartment outside State College, Pennsylvania,
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Vanished Voices | Episode companion post On the afternoon of April 17, 2019, a young woman stood crying on an upper level of an apartment parking garage in Old East Dallas. She asked a passing resident if she knew whose car was next to them. The resident didn’t. She held the door open, but the
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A Vanished Voices companion post In the early hours of July 20, 2013, a 25-year-old Cree woman fell from the 31st-floor balcony of a downtown Toronto condo. Police called her death suspicious. More than a decade later, her family still has no answer to the question at the center of it: how did Bella Laboucan-McLean
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A Vanished Voices companion piece On December 12, 2021, 23-year-old Lauren Smith-Fields was found dead in her Bridgeport, Connecticut apartment after a first date arranged through Bumble. Her death was ultimately ruled an accident. But the story of what happened after she died — how her case was investigated, who was and wasn’t held accountable,
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A Vanished Voices companion post On the afternoon of June 28th, 2021, Lauren “El” Cho walked away from a bus parked in the California desert. She didn’t take her phone. She didn’t take water. She didn’t take food. Within ten minutes, she was gone — and despite an extensive search involving K9 units, aircraft, and
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A companion piece to this week’s Vanished Voices episode. On the evening of August 18, 2010, a 20-year-old mother named Amber Tuccaro got into a car with a man she’d never met, on a gravel road just outside Edmonton, Alberta. She was never seen alive again. What sets her case apart from so many other
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A companion piece to this week’s Vanished Voices episode On the evening of November 8th, 2021, a doorbell camera outside a home in the 4800 block of North Kenmore Road, on the northeast side of Indianapolis, captured a 24-year-old woman walking out to a truck idling at the curb. She got in. The truck pulled
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Kanika Powell did everything right. That’s the detail that makes this case so difficult to sit with. So often, when we cover a story on this show, there’s a moment where you can point to something — a warning sign ignored, a risk taken, a door left unlocked. With Kanika, there isn’t one. She checked
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