196 - The Disappearance of Pamela Tinsley
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 21 May 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On a warm, lazy Sunday afternoon, nineteen year old Pamela Tinsley decided to take a ride down to one of her favorite Oklahoma City spots -- Lake Overholser. She'd had a rough few weeks and really needed a break from the hectic rat race of life. She never could have imagined that she wouldn't make it back home.
According to friends at the Lake that day, Pam accepted an offer from a man she didn't know. He's drive her a ride around the lake on his motorcycle and then drop her right back off where he found her. Pam agreed, but neither was ever seen again.
For more than twenty years investigators believed that Pam had been abducted by this lone, unknown man until an anonymous caller changed everything. Quickly the view of detectives shifted from this stranger to the people who last saw Pam alive -- her so-called friends and roommates who may have had a reason to want to see her gone.
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| 0:00.0 | There you are on the train and you see someone harassing a woman. |
| 0:06.0 | What do you do? |
| 0:07.0 | I'll check if she's okay and ask if she wants to report it. |
| 0:10.0 | I'll ask the directions to distract him. |
| 0:12.0 | I'll tell someone who works at station. |
| 0:14.0 | His mind mate, I'll tell him to stop. |
| 0:17.0 | There are many ways you can safely tackle violence against women and girls. |
| 0:21.0 | If you think it's wrong, act on it. |
| 0:24.0 | Find out how at gov.uk slash enough. |
| 0:27.0 | If someone is in danger call 999. |
| 0:39.0 | On a warm spring afternoon in April of 1986, |
| 0:43.0 | 19-year-old Pamela Don Tinsley took a short drive down to Lake Overholzer, |
| 0:49.0 | one of her favorite spots to get away from the stress of life and enjoy a relaxing day by the water. |
| 0:55.0 | She could never have imagined that she'd never make it back home. |
| 0:59.0 | According to Pam's friends who were present that day, |
| 1:02.0 | she hopped on the back of a motorcycle with an unknown man for a ride around the lake, |
| 1:07.0 | from which she never returned. |
| 1:09.0 | For investigators, it was a difficult case. |
| 1:12.0 | Had Pam been abducted by the unknown motorcyclist, |
| 1:15.0 | or had she run off with him intentionally, |
| 1:18.0 | there was never any doubt for her family |
| 1:21.0 | who believed that if Pam could have made it home, she would have, |
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