314: Tropical Vacation Turned Deadly: The Mysterious Disappearance of Robyn Gardner
Serialously with Annie Elise
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4.7 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Gary Giordano arrested for the suspected murder. |
| 0:03.0 | Robin Gardner. |
| 0:04.0 | He said all the people are think you guilty. |
| 0:06.0 | A 35-year-old Maryland woman now presumed dead. |
| 0:09.0 | The American tourist who vanished in Aruba more than a month ago. |
| 0:12.0 | Why was Robin who hated to swim snorkeling with Gary Giordano the day she disappeared? |
| 0:18.0 | 50-year-old Giordano says it all began as a snorkeling trip in Aruba. |
| 0:22.6 | I feel in my heart that something happened at this person's hand. |
| 0:27.6 | We weren't drinking heavily. She was walking. I was walking. We were a sober couple. |
| 0:31.6 | Where's Robin? |
| 0:33.6 | Where is she? You know, you were the last one to see her. Where'd she go? Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly. I'm going to be. What happened August 2nd that day with Robin Gardner? |
| 1:07.0 | Where's Robin? |
| 1:08.0 | Where is she? |
| 1:09.0 | You know, you were the last one to see her. Where'd she go? |
| 1:11.4 | She's missing, and two days later, you're inquiring about, you're not trying to collect, but you're inquiring. |
| 1:17.7 | Why would you do that and she's still missing? |
| 1:19.3 | Aruba, a tropical escape known for its white sandy beaches and crystal clear waters, the kind of place where people go to unwind, reset, and forget about their |
| 1:29.3 | problems. But in the summer of 2011, that dream was shattered for 35-year-old Robin Gardner. |
| 1:37.4 | Now, Robin was on vacation in Aruba, but she wasn't alone. She was with a man that she had told her |
| 1:43.7 | boyfriend was just a friend. |
| 1:45.5 | But when the investigator started digging into her travel companion's story and also his past, |
| 1:51.7 | was this really a tragic accident? Or were they looking at the carefully covered tracks of something |
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