Welcome back to Missing. I am Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?

I'm doing fantastic today Tim. I'm very excited to present the second part of this two part

episode that we released last week. But before we get to that, what was not released today was your mood.

How are you?

I'm doing great. Thanks a lot for asking. Yeah, this was a fun night lance and we did air part one of this live fundraiser

that we recorded on Giving Tuesday. We aired it last week and so this is the second part. In this part, you will hear from

Belinda and private investigator Lou Barry. Belinda is the sister of Mike Montillo, who we recently covered on this podcast.

Mike was 55 years old when he went missing out of Collatin County, South Carolina on January 26th, 2020.

We also speak with PIs for the missing researchers Kathleen Studer and Erica Zapita, who have some great things to say and private investigator Andy Wyland, who's working on Phoenix

Colton's disappearance with his wife Ness. And then finally, we end the evening with Bruce Matlin and Aaron derogers of PIs for the missing.

We are currently sitting at just over $1,300 and for those who don't know if we reached the $5,000 goal by National Missing Persons Day, which is February 3rd of 2023, I will be getting a tattoo of the private investigations for the missing logo.

And I've been leaning towards getting this tattoo on my leg. I got a certain idea in mind for where it's going to go. It'll still be visible. I'm not going to hide it.

So people can rest assured that this isn't going to be a small hidden tattoo. I'm going to wear it proudly, but folks $5,000.

We got like a month and a half or something. I think we can do it, but we got a little bit to go. So come on. I need to get a tattoo.

And I really think you should actually get one of those eyeball tattoos, but we'll talk about that offline.

If you'd like to donate, you can go to investigations for the missing dot org or you can follow the links in the show notes. We'd really appreciate it. Those proceeds go directly, really directly to private investigators who are working pro bono and are really just working for expenses.

And one more thing before we get to this episode, I just want to highlight the importance of listening to these individuals who work with private investigations for the missing as not only investigators, but what Aaron does she coordinates a lot of the inner workings of the organization and is really brought a nice stable foundation to us Bruce Madeleine who founded it and people who have missing loved ones like Belinda.

So it is important that we hear all sides of this story. And Tim, I know you're an adult now and you don't believe in Santa Claus, but if Santa Claus did exist and he came down the chimney and you were like, I'm not going to do the typical trope and leave you cookies and milk.

I'm going to give you something better. Why would you give them?

Well, A, I do still believe in Santa Claus and B, I would send them right to missing dot supporting cast dot FM, which of course is missing premium. You get every single episode of missing ad free plus you get our weekly bonus show.

Well, that's fantastic. So that way, Santa can then fly around the world, delivering his toys, listening to every episode of our show without ads. He would be delighted.

Now, he probably shouldn't be texting or on social media or on his mobile device while he's flying his sleigh, but let's just say he gets a down moment and he's sitting on the roof while the reindeer's are getting their bearings together.

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