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Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Florence Okpealuk is not the first Alaska Native to go missing from Nome. Seventeen years prior, Sonya Ivanoff was reported missing by her roommates and was found murdered. The crime has forever left a mark on the relationship between the community and the local police department. Payne arrives in Nome and learns that not much has changed since Ivanoff's tragic end. He connects with journalist and Alaska Native, Alice Qannik Glenn, who shares how the story inspired her journalism and changed the way she viewed the world. Follow the show on Instagram: @upandvanished Subscribe to Tenderfoot+ for ad-free listening, exclusive bonuses and early access starting on 2/23. {apple.co/upandvanished} To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Up and Vanished in the Midnight Sun is released every Friday and brought to you absolutely free.
0:07.0	But for ad free listening, exclusive bonuses and early access starting next week.
0:13.0	Subscribe to Tenderfootplus at tenderfootplus.com or on Apple Podcasts. You're listening to Up and Vanished in the Midnight Sun, a production of
0:27.5	tenderfoot TV in association with Odyssey. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the individuals
0:35.2	participating.
0:37.2	This podcast also contains subject matter which may not be suitable for everyone.
0:42.4	Listener discretion is advised. You haven't found the body, they haven't found the body, they haven't found anything.
1:02.0	The evidence is gone.
1:04.0	You sure about that?
1:07.0	She was supposedly last seen with this guy.
1:12.0	They found her things in his tent. I don't know the guy's name. Where the guy went,
1:19.8	I don't know. But he's not here. No.
1:23.0	He's not no.
1:24.0	He left.
1:25.0	I don't know where he went, but I do know that if I was an investigator,
1:32.0	my... If I was an investigator, I'd be on his ass like stink on shit. Do d'An-Dun-Dun-Dun-D-D-Dun-D-D-D-Dun-D-D-Dun-Dah-Dun-Dah-Doh-Dun-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dun-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah-Dah d'an-Dah d'Dah d'an d'ah d'ah d'ah d't'ah d't' Welcome to season 4 of Up and Vanished in the Midnight Sun.
2:07.0	I'm your host Payne Lindsey. My producer Mike and I had finally touched down in Nome, Alaska, where Florence Ocpialic disappeared on August 31st, 2020.
2:24.0	She was last seen on West Beach, where freelance miners like to set up camp.
2:28.8	The airport in Nome is tiny, and there's no Uber or Lyft, just a single cab company that loads up as many people
2:35.3	as they can in their 12 passenger van.
2:38.3	I was in a completely different environment.
2:40.9	And before I could even get my bearing straight, I was interviewing a gold miner who'd been living
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