580 // Andy Puglisi w/ Melanie Perkins McLaughlin - Part 2

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Melanie Perkins McLaughlin about the disappearance of her childhood friend, Andy Puglisi, from Lawrence, Massachusetts on August 22nd, 1976. Melanie made an Emmy award winning documentary called, "Have You Seen Andy?". Check out the site here: ⁠https://haveyouseenandy.com/watch/⁠. Check out Melanie's excellent podcast, Open Investigation. Like and subscribe below: Official site: ⁠https://openinvestigationpodcast.com/⁠. Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4Sy0KXwSqQueq1GmjFDgKp⁠. Apple: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/open-investigation/id1757196345⁠. Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/openinvestigation⁠. Main podcast theme by Kevin Macleod. Check out his work at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://incompetech.com/⁠⁠⁠. Additional music by David Williams. See his work at⁠ ⁠⁠http://williamsflutes.com⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠. TT:⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠. FB:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠. X:⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠. Spotify:⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠. Youtube:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠. Apple:⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠. Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠. TT:⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠. FB:⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠. X:⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠ Spotify:⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠. Youtube:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠. Apple:⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing and please donate if you can: ⁠https://investigationsforthemissing.org/⁠. ⁠http://piftm.org/donate⁠. ⁠https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing⁠. ⁠https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/⁠. ⁠https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The We are back here in part two with Melanie Perkins McLaughlin to speak about the disappearance
0:40.4	of her childhood friend Andy Puglisi. And Andy disappeared from a swimming pool in Lawrence,
0:46.7	Massachusetts on August 22nd, 1976. Melanie has done extensive work on his disappearance, and it's extremely impressive. And as we
0:58.4	introduce the second part of this conversation, just want to remind you to listen to part one,
1:03.2	if you haven't yet, because we jump right into the topic of networks of pedophiles. So it's
1:10.5	right into the middle of this story. Right. And unfortunately,
1:13.2	that's just where the story takes us. We don't want to be talking about missing 10-year-olds
1:18.4	and pedophiles, but it's hard to avoid that, especially with the information that she's brought
1:24.8	to us. She's done an incredible job with this investigation. You'll hear
1:29.5	more of our thoughts in our final thoughts. I said at the top of the intro of the first episode of
1:35.3	this, just how important the work she's done is. And if anyone hasn't listened to part one, yes,
1:41.9	like you said, please go back and listen to part one. And we also said that we just needed to give it a breather in between the two parts so hopefully
1:48.4	everybody's ready for part two here yes and make sure to check out melany's excellent podcast
1:53.9	called open investigation and she mentions in the second part here that she's got a season
2:00.2	two that's coming soon to open
2:02.4	investigation.
2:03.4	So we'll have Melanie back on once that is out.
2:06.1	I would love to get deeper into that topic.
2:09.9	And also, Melanie's got a great documentary out there.
2:13.3	The documentary is called Have You Seen Andy?
2:15.8	And she mentions that she's currently looking for new distribution for the documentary.
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