And Then They Were Gone

In April of 2019, 26-year-old Prisma Reyes’s life was in a bit of an upheaval. The single mother had ended a tumultuous relationship, gotten let go from her job, started a new one, and was apparently trying to rekindle a romance with her ex. Things were changing in her life so quickly that her family wasn’t aware of many of the details. What they did know, however, was that she was absolutely devo...

This week, we have an episode from our Darkcast Network friends, Crime Diner . They're telling the tale of The Night Witches. During World War II an all-female group of military aviators of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment was terrorizing Nazis under the stealth of the night sky. These women were nicknamed the Night Witches. They had nothing to lose and everything to gain Cindy goes full-on Rus...

Imagine the abject fear a parent would experience after their 11-year-old child has been missing for over three weeks. No one has heard from her, no one has seen her. You’d be climbing the walls, right? Begging investigators and the public to help you find her? That’s what usually happens, but not in the case of Madalina Cojocari. Madalina went to school as normal on November 21, 2022, but she did...

99% of missing people in America are found. But then there’s the 1%. Some of the unfound get extensive news coverage, community support, or even an episode of Disappeared. Some, however, get forgotten; their cases barely investigated before being put on a shelf to collect dust. Even though Danielle Bell was only 14 years old when she went missing in 2001, she falls into the latter category. When D...

Steve Cozzi went missing from his Largo, Florida law office on March 21, 2023. On March 26, plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was arrested for his murder. In this week's episode, we're exploring the history between Cozzi and Kosowski, and going over the timeline of the case. We're also delving into the evidence that led to his arrest. Steve Cozzi has still not been found, and his family...

One early morning, a woman heads off for work. She leaves her home in Heworth, York, England at the same time and takes the same route she’s been taking for weeks, ever since her car broke down. But on the morning of March 19, 2009, 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence didn't make it to her destination. Police are confident that she left her home that morning, but something happened in the 1.5 miles b...

Steven Cozzi went missing from his law office in Largo, Florida on March 21, 2023. On Friday, March 24, 2023, it was announced that he had gone missing under "suspicious circumstances." Host Kona Gallagher was friends with Steve in high school, so we wanted to get his information out there as soon as possible to help publicize the case and find witnesses, intending to bring Steve home. Unf...

“This is a tragedy, but it’s not a crime.” This quote is from Captain Jeff Ferry, the lead investigator searching for missing Texas college student, Jason Landry. Jason, a student at Texas State University, left his apartment late in the evening on December 13, 2020, to return home to Missouri City, Texas for a quick visit. But Jason never made it home. Shortly after midnight, his car was found cr...

4-year-old Codi Bigsby was reported missing on January 31, 2022, when his father said he woke up and found his son’s bed empty. A search immediately ensued in their Hampton, Virginia neighborhood, and police took Codi’s father, Cory, down to the station for questioning. This interview turned into a brutal interrogation that spanned days and led to Cory being arrested on multiple charges. Are polic...

On January 29, 2011, Bethany Decker called into her waitressing job to see if she could work the evening shift. She never made it to work. Her estranged husband, Army National Guardsman, Emile Decker, was in Virginia on leave but was due to ship back to Afghanistan just days later. Her boyfriend, Ronald Roldan, claims that he saw her that afternoon at their apartment, but has no idea where she wen...

21-year-old Bethany Decker was a young mother and a wife to an Army National Guardsman stationed in Afghanistan. In 2011, she attended college full-time at George Mason University in Virginia and waited tables to make ends meet. Bethany was busy and her husband was away, so it wasn’t unusual for her family to go a while without hearing from her. But when weeks passed with no word, they began to gr...

After starting our podcast in 2020, we’ve covered over 100 unsolved missing persons cases. In some, there have been huge updates that we’ve been able to do bonus episodes on. In others, there has been nothing but silence. Today, we’ll go back through our entire archive and talk about the cases that have been making progress since we last spoke about them. They may be more minor updates, but every...

We're coming out with a book! Listen for more information about that and season 4. This week, we're bringing you an episode of Misty Mysteries. This episode covers the 2021 disappearance of Bryan "Vladek" Hasel. Bryan "Vladek" Hasel was last seen at the apartment complex he lived at with his dad in East Orlando Florida. The last he was seen was on November 15th, 2021, but h...

Sergeant Jill Evans is a small-town cop in Wales with an impressive job record and a less-than-impressive record in her love life. After three engagements, two divorces, and one affair, she’s beginning to worry that love is only true in fairy tales. That is until she meets: Dean. He’s a wealthy beauty entrepreneur with his own range of toiletries. Girl meets boy. Boy meets girl. They kiss and fall...

We're on hiatus, but please enjoy this podcast version of a Youtube show that Kona was recently on. You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/91mQvYTAVrE In this episode, we're ᗯIᑎIᑎG ᗩᑎᗪ ᑕᖇIᗰIᑎG with Kona of @ATTWGPOD and Elle of @elleterskelter9529 in our new True Crime series. Today's video features the holiday crime stories of JonBenet Ramsey, Joyce Meyer Sommers (the Christma...

"If only they had some sort of GPS monitor on them.” In the case of a person who vanishes without a trace, it’s only natural to wish for some magical tool that could just tell you where they were. As we learn with the case of missing Houston, Texas teenager, Alexander “AJ” Silva, sometimes even that’s not enough. AJ had been arrested in early 2021 and was required to wear an ankle monitor whil...

This week we're bringing you an episode from one of our DarkCast Network friends: Hands Off My Podcast. Host Jasmine Castillo covers crimes against underserved communities. This episode tells the story of Colten Pratt, a missing Indigenous man from Winnipeg, Canada. Colten's last confirmed sighting was on November 6, 2015, and his family has been fighting ever since to get his name out the...

Robert Hoagland was reported missing from Newtown, Connecticut in 2013. He was found dead in Rock Hill, New York, in December 2022. We covered Robert's disappearance and his shocking ending. Now, we've learned new information on Robert's life in Rock Hill, where he had been living as Richard King for the past nine years. What has Robert been doing? Where was he working? We find out all...

For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. Jonelle’s face had been on milk cartons nationwide. Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every le...

Richard Hoagland was a successful family man who lived with his wife and two sons in a suburb outside of Indianapolis, Indiana. On February 10, 1993, he called his wife from work and told her he was sick and heading to the emergency room. He never came home again. For over 23 years, his wife Linda and their two sons wondered about his fate. But in 2016, a bizarre story emerged that proved Richard...

They say hindsight is 20/20. On July 28, 2013, 50-year-old Robert Hoagland, a husband and father of two living in Newtown, Connecticut, had bagels with his son, mowed the lawn, gassed up his wife's car, and disappeared. Friends and family have been dissecting his last moves for years, trying to find clues as to what happened to Robert. Was he a victim of violence? Did he harm himself? Did he s...

We’ve all heard of people who have used children as pawns in a divorce. Maybe they’re fighting on visitation or child support payments because they don’t want to give their soon-to-be ex what they want. But in some extreme cases, the animosity and need for control can be destructive. Charles Vosseler needed to be in charge. He needed to decide where his two sons, 3-year-old CJ, and 2-year-old Bill...

November 20, 2022 marked both Transgender Day of Remembrance and the 10-year-anniversary of Sage Smith's disappearance in Charlottesville, Virginia. Sage is still missing, but her case has been classified as a homicide. The man she was supposed to be meeting that night, Erik McFadden, has also been missing since shortly after her disappearance. We are re-releasing our two-part episode on Sage...

November 20, 2022 marked both Transgender Day of Remembrance and the 10-year-anniversary of Sage Smith's disappearance in Charlottesville, Virginia. Sage is still missing, but her case has been classified as a homicide. The man she was supposed to be meeting that night, Erik McFadden, has also been missing since shortly after her disappearance. We are re-releasing our two-part episode on Sage...

On July 27, 2021, 5-year-old Michael Vaughan’s father went to go check on Michael’s younger sister and order a pizza. He was out of the room for 15 or 20 minutes, but when he came back, his little boy was gone. Police in Fruitland, Idaho, along with other agencies, launched a massive search, but no trace of the boy was found. Over a year and a half went by, until seemingly out of nowhere an arrest...