641 // Sealed to My Abductor w/ Dawn McCarty - Part 1 of 2

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this new two part episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Dawn McCarty about her upcoming memoir titled Sealed To My Abductor. This is a wild journey of how Dawn was abducted from her father by her estranged mother. This is part one of two. Follow all of Dawn's work: https://linktr.ee/dawnmccarty. IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamdawnmccarty. YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b2nZ6h4Rbg. Sealed to My Abductor links: https://linktr.ee/UnsealedPress. Check out Quince: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://quince.com/MISSING⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. 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/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The in this new episode we we speak with New Friend, who we recently met at CrimeCon 2025.
0:44.5	Her name is Don McCarty.
0:46.8	Lance, she's an author, and she's written the upcoming book, Sealed to My Abductor, that we speak with her about in this conversation.
0:56.2	And boy, this is a riveting topic.
0:59.0	What do you think of this conversation?
1:00.6	Well, I'm so glad that we're finally able to connect with Dawn and get her on the show to
1:04.3	talk about her life, her experience, something that she's been dealing with and battling
1:09.1	for years and years.
1:11.1	I did not know the extent of what had happened to her.
1:15.4	And I didn't know that this was even a thing that was as prevalent as it is, where parents can actually do this to their children.
1:26.9	Honestly, it was way more frightening and riveting than I expected it to be.
1:31.6	I don't know if you felt the same way.
1:33.0	Yeah, I did because we didn't read the entire book.
1:36.3	All we had was the prologue to go on and to sort of ask Don questions about it is wild.
1:43.5	She was abducted when she was four years old,
1:46.1	abducted by her biological mother and her mother's boyfriend. And this is a story that gets
1:52.6	into the Mormon religion very heavily and these topics of custody and family disputes. So I think
2:00.5	you'll enjoy it as well. Check out Don's other work. There
2:04.2	are links in the show notes to her other books. And you can find more of Don's work at sealed
2:10.1	to my abductor.com. And there's a lot of information in this conversation. So we are going to break
2:16.0	this up into two parts. Part two
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