140: [Alison Duiker] A Reflection of My Mother
What Came Next
Broken Cycle Media
4.4 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Alison Duiker is an educator, author, mother, and survivor from Ohio. Her life was upended days before her fifth birthday when her mom, Lonene, went missing. Over the last forty-four years, Alison has worked diligently to bring awareness to her mother’s cold case, as well as to make change for other families with missing loved ones. The Broken Cycle Media team is honored she was willing to share her and her mother’s journey with us, and we deeply encourage our audience members to help enact Lonnie’s Law by signing Alison’s petition linked in the episode notes.
A Daughter's Journey: ...and Story of Resilience:
Erie Silent Club: https://www.facebook.com/ESC3044
Justice for Lonene FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/285829136570490/
Petition: Grant Families of Missing Persons access to Police files after a period of 20 years: https://www.change.org/p/grant-families-of-missing-persons-access-to-police-files-after-a-period-of-20-years
For a list of related non-profit organizations and other resources that can help, please visit http://www.somethingwaswrong.com/resources
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| 0:03.3 | What Came Next is intended for mature audiences only. |
| 0:08.0 | Episodes discuss topics that can be triggering, such as emotional, physical, and sexual violence, animal abuse, suicide, and murder. |
| 0:17.2 | I am not a therapist, nor am I a doctor. |
| 0:20.6 | If you're in need of support, please visit something was wrong.com forward slash resources for a list of non-profit organizations that can help. |
| 0:29.8 | Opinions expressed by my guests on the show are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of myself or broken cycle media. |
| 0:38.4 | Resources and source material are linked in the episode notes. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you so much for listening. |
| 1:13.6 | Thank you so much for listening. Alison Diker is an educator, author, mother, and survivor from Ohio. Her life was upended days before her fifth birthday, when her mom, Launineen, went missing. |
| 1:20.6 | Over the last 44 years, Allison has worked diligently to bring awareness to her mother's cold case, |
| 1:31.4 | as well as to make change for other families with missing loved ones. |
| 1:37.4 | The Broken Cycle Media team is honored she was willing to share her and her mother's journey with us, and we deeply encourage our audience to help enact Lonnie's Law by signing Allison's petition, |
| 1:43.9 | which is linked in the episode notes. |
| 1:52.3 | My name is Allison Diker. I live in Cleveland, Ohio, with my husband and my three children. |
| 2:04.3 | They are the loves of my life, all of them. |
| 2:19.8 | I'm so grateful to have them. I grew up with a very fractioned family, so my ultimate blessing and goal in life is the family that I have and am lucky enough to be a part of. |
| 2:28.5 | This will be my 26th year of teaching and I am an author. I wrote the book, A Daughter's Journey and Story of Resilience. It tells the life of my mother, of myself, what happened to her, what is happening now to find her, and my life growing up without her. |
| 2:43.3 | Her name is Lonine, and she actually got her name from her grandfather whose name was Lonan. |
| 2:49.5 | For short, they called her Lonnie. She was born in the |
| 2:55.5 | Medville, Pennsylvania area, and then they moved to Youngstown, Ohio. She was actually the first child |
| 3:04.0 | to my grandparents, and she was born deaf. They didn't realize she was deaf until she was a little |
| 3:11.3 | older. My great grandmother had said to my grandmother, Maxine, she can't hear. You need to get her ears |
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