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Stolen Lives True Crime

249: Re-release: Adji Desir

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.0636 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The unsolved disappearance of 6-year-old Adji Desir

This is a re-release with sped up audio and gaps of silence removed. I found this painful in editing it out so I appreciate you all listening back then when I was very new and still learning! Hopefully this will get more ears on the episode.

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Research and script writing by Ali

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Here on Stolen Lives, we discuss brutal and heartbreaking crimes against children.

0:05.6

Themes may include child murder, torture, and sexual domestic and child abuse.

0:10.9

I do try my best to remain respectful for the babies in these stories, and leave out unnecessary

0:15.7

details that honestly, none of us need to know to understand the frustration of why and how

0:20.5

this ever happened.

0:22.0

However, if you find any of these themes triggering this podcast may not be for you.

0:27.4

Listen, our discretion is advised.

0:37.2

Six-year-old Adjidessa came from a hard-working family, who lived in a close-knit community

0:43.4

in the Mokkali, Florida, which is near the Florida Everglades.

0:47.8

Everyone knew Adji and the other children were protective over the mentally disabled little boy.

0:53.9

So how did Agi, a boy with a capacity of a two-year-old,

0:57.9

disappear from this gated community one January afternoon 12 years ago?

1:02.8

How did he escape through fences and dense brush when people were out in their yards,

1:07.7

yet no one saw anything, and Adji has never been seen again. This is

1:12.9

Adji's story. He was playing in his grandmother's front yard and literally just disappeared. Look

1:19.5

at that sweet little boy there. And now we know that he went outside to play with his friends

1:23.4

around 5.15 in the evening. And when his grandmother went outside to check on him, he was gone.

1:28.3

The other children he was with say, all of a sudden, they just noticed Adjie wasn't there.

1:34.3

The family searched for about two hours before calling the police at 7.15.

1:39.3

Police spent a week searching that area. They used sonar they came up with nothing

1:44.5

Ajie's family is from Haiti and as you can imagine his mother is just heartbroken

1:49.6

I'm crying every day I don't ever sleep I got a little bit sit I got I wanted a

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