082 - The Vanishing of Andrew Gosden

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

On September 14th, 2007, fourteen year old Andrew Gosden pretended to go to school, waited for his parents to leave and then snuck back in. He packed a few items, changed his clothes, pulled all the money he could from an ATM and hopped on a train to London. By the time his family knew he was gone he’d been missing for hours.

When it was discovered that Andrew had gone to London, no one could imagine why. The brilliant math student with perfect attendance had suddenly broken away from his normal life and disappeared into the busy streets. For twelve years now his family and investigators have had two questions: Why did Andrew leave and where did he end up?

In a case that has captured the attention of millions, and a teenager whose face has been seen coast to coast across the UK and the world at large, so many questions remain and so few answers have been found.

What happened to Andrew Gosden, why did he leave and is it possible he's still out there somewhere?

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0:00.0	On the morning of September 14, 2007, 14-year-old Andrew Gosden hopped a train from Donkaster
0:15.8	station riding nearly two hours into the heart of London.
0:20.5	Surveillance cameras show the young man walking up from the track through the station and
0:25.4	ultimately exiting onto the street.
0:28.2	These are the last confirmed images of Andrew.
0:31.8	The Gosden family discovered that Andrew was missing that evening when he wasn't in his
0:36.5	room.
0:37.9	Subsequent phone calls provided the troubling news that Andrew had never attended school
0:42.5	that day, and by the time it was known that he'd gone to London, valuable time had been
0:47.6	spent and days wasted.
0:50.4	For many, the question of why Andrew went to London is almost as compelling as what became
0:56.2	of him.
0:57.9	For the last 12 years, the Gosden family and police have tried to find the answers, and
1:03.0	with each new possibility have been met only with dead ends and broken leads.
1:08.8	Speculation is thick around Andrew's disappearance, with some believing the teenager took off on
1:13.9	his own and others wondering if perhaps he'd been coaxed into a situation from which he
1:19.3	could not escape.
1:21.3	What happened to Andrew Gosden?
1:23.8	Did he choose to leave on his own with plans he never revealed?
1:28.1	Was he drawn into London by someone he believed he could trust?
1:31.9	Or was this a case of a teenager cutting school for a fun day off and sadly finding himself
1:37.7	on the wrong side of foul play?
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