183 - The Disappearance of Star Boomer
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
On the afternoon of February 23rd, 1999, Star walked into Uncle Mike's, a local dive bar in Kansas City, Kansas. Observing an argument between an apparent couple, Star stepped in to protect the woman. Moments later, she was assaulted by the man's friend before he hustled out the back door.
Sometime later, Star's attacker returned and in full view of more than a dozen witnesses, Star was beaten unconscious before being dragged out to a waiting car. She was never seen alive again. Based on witness testimony, two men were charged with second degree murder but the charges would be dropped when not one of the witnesses was willing to testify as to who attacked Star nor what they did with her afterwards.
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| 0:00.0 | Here in the UK we sell amazing products and services the whole world once. |
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| 0:21.0 | So if you make it in the UK, why not sell it to the world? |
| 0:25.0 | For free help from the UK Government visit great.gov.uk |
| 0:39.0 | 39-year-old star Boomer was making strides towards a better future. |
| 0:43.0 | Mother to a young son and in the midst of a divorce, she was studying hard to obtain her GED so she could start her own business. |
| 0:51.0 | Sadly just days before she was set to take the test, she would vanish, though perhaps not so mysteriously. |
| 0:58.0 | On a cool Tuesday afternoon in February of 1999, star walked into a local dive bar. |
| 1:05.0 | Slowly sifting her drink, she wasn't planning to stay long, but when she never made it home, friends and family were worried. |
| 1:12.0 | This was unlike her to be out of touch and they knew almost immediately that something had to be wrong. |
| 1:19.0 | Detectives began where star had last been seen, Uncle Mike's bar in the Turner section of Kansas City. |
| 1:25.0 | Quickly they would come to discover that star hadn't merely disappeared. |
| 1:29.0 | She'd been the victim of a violent crime. |
| 1:32.0 | More than a dozen witnesses saw what happened and who had been responsible, yet they kept their silence either too afraid to speak up or too ambivalent to care. |
| 1:42.0 | With star's disappearance random, the result of a violent bar encounter, was a man who later murdered his own wife responsible, |
| 1:50.0 | or had 13 bar patrons cowardly chosen to protect two violent felons with a history of disturbing crimes, instead of standing up for star when she needed them the most. |
| 2:01.0 | This is Trace Evidence Episode 183, the disappearance of star boomer. |
| 2:14.0 | Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco. |
| 2:18.0 | Today we examine the disturbing disappearance of star boomer, before getting into the case, just a few notes about the show. |
| 2:26.0 | Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders and disappearances. |
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