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 93 Still Missing; A Re-Release of Episode 50 Our Most Mysterious Cases So Far
From the Missing Persons 'Still Missing' Vault of episodes, this week's episode is a re-release of Episode 50; Our Most Mysterious Cases So Far.
To commemorate the 50th episode of Missing Persons, hosts Jess & Mike look back at the first 49 episodes and each pick out their top 5 most mysterious cases to recap, and discuss in more depth.
Episode 92 Mary Jane Croft Van Gilder Update Part 2 of 2
In part 2 of our update on the Mary Jane Croft Van Gilder case, we talk once again with Detective Adam Turner of the Shelby, OH police department who solved this case. He discusses what went into solving the case and what questions remain unanswered.
Episode 91 Mary Jane Croft Van Gilder Update Part 1 of 2
Mary Jane Croft VanGilder went missing in 1945. We originally covered her case in episode 8 of Missing Persons. She had left her family in WV to escape an abusive relationship. She traveled to OH where she took a warehouse job, and routinely sent letters and war bonds home to her children. In February, 1945, she filed for divorce. The following month, she quit her job and vanished. Her family had searched for her ever since. Decades after she went missing, Detective Adam Turner was tasked with trying to do what seemed impossible- figure out what happened to Mary Jane decades before when she vanished. It was an uphill battle, but against the odds, through hard work and refusal to give up, Detective Turner solved the mystery. He found out that Mary Jane Croft Van Gilder had started her life over as Mary Jane Sebren. She possibly re-married, and then had additional children. She lived the rest of her life without either of her 2 families knowing about the other before she passed away in 1990.
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