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The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

187. No Body Murder and the Case of Michael "Monkey" Vaughan

The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs

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True Crime

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When five-year-old Michael "Monkey" Vaughan went missing in July of 2021, police were confident that they'd find him soon, hopeful that he'd only wandered off. But now, four years later, prosecutors are pursuing murder charges against one of Michael's neighbors. We discuss.

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1:05.7

I'm Alice and I'm Brett.

1:08.4

And this is the prosecutor's legal briefs. I'm your host, Alice, and I'm joined as always by my neighborly co-host Brett.

1:43.5

Hello, neighbor. How are Brett. Hello, neighbor.

1:44.7

How are you?

1:45.3

Hello, neighbor.

1:46.0

I hope that you are the neighbor like Mr. Rogers wants us to be and not like the neighbor

1:52.7

in a very sad case that we're going to talk about today, that of the abduction and murder of Michael Vaughn, who was just a five-year-old when he was

2:04.5

taken, and he's still not found to this day. So there's no body yet. But notice I did say

2:10.0

abduction and murder. Yes, because there's no body, but apparently there is a crime and there

2:15.0

is a prosecution that's going to happen in this case.

2:18.5

And so we wanted to talk a little bit about it in the idea of nobody crimes.

2:24.8

Like how do you prosecute those cases?

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