Missing Persons Podcast
About the hosts:
Missing Persons is co-hosted by Mike Morford and Jess Bettencourt
About the show:
At any given time, there are 90,000 missing persons, and that's just in the U.S. This podcast explores some of these cases including interviews with a family member of the missing person, an advocate for the case, or an investigator trying to find them.
New episodes publish every other Saturday
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Latest Episodes
Episode 81 Kenneth Ray Weaver
37 year-old Kenneth Ray Weaver, who went by Kenny, vanished in December 2000. He was last seen on Christmas Day, December 25th, when a friend dropped him off at another friend's home in Pocola, Oklahoma, a town that borders Fort Smith, Arkansas.
When he went missing, Kenny's family got the run around by police in both Arkansas and Oklahoma, and he wasn't officially reported missing for years, and when he finally was, he mysteriously kept popping into and out of the database of missing people.
During the time Kenny's family was fighting to keep his case in front of police, they did their own digging into his case and encountered several different troubling rumors about what happened to Kenny; all of them centering around being killed over a debt.
Almost 23 years later, Kenny's family is still searching for answers. In this episode, Kenny's sister Becky discusses the frustrating & troubling aspects of Kenny's case.
Episode 80 Jamie Grissim
Sixteen year-old Jamie Grissim vanished in Vancouver, Washington on December 7, 1971. She attended school that day at Fort Vancouver High School, and planned to walk home after school. She told her foster mother she would be home shortly after 1pm that day after school, but she never made it home. Immediately, Jamie's younger sister Starr, who was extremely close with Jamie, knew that something was wrong. It wasn't like Jamie to not come home.
Starr and Jamie's foster mother tried to report Jamie missing, but were told by police that they had to wait a full 30 days. In May, 1972, Five months after she went missing, Jamie's purse, ID, and some other belongings were found beside a road in the Dole Valley area of Clark County, northeast of Vancouver. Jamie herself was never seen again.
Authorities initially believed Jamie was a runaway, but she is now believed to be the first victim of a suspected serial rapist and killer, Warren Leslie Forrest who has been linked to attacks and murders of other young women in the same area during that timeframe.
Episode 79 James ‘Jamie’ Valdez
47 year-old James Valdez, who went by Jamie, vanished from Booneville, Arkansas in June, 2021 following an argument with his wife. His Blue Chevy Equinox was found near a swimming hole in Sugar Grove, Arkansas, and although there was no sign of Jami, some of his belongings including a medical card were found on the ground nearby. A closer examination of the vehicle revealed that there was a rip in the seat, and the engine had been tampered with. In an effort to look for clues, his family accessed his Icloud account and it revealed that Jamie's phone last pinged in an area that was underwater at the time Jamie vanished. While there have been no confirmed sightings of Jamie, there were unconfirmed sightings after him after he vanished. There is also another woman named Thorina Watson who vanished in the same area, and while there is no confirmed link to Jamie's case. police have looked into a possible connection. Meanwhile, various rumors have swirled leaving Jamie's family desperate for answers. Jamie's sister Shawn discusses his case in this episode.
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