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Stolen Lives True Crime

76: Oakley Carlson

Stolen Lives True Crime

Stolen Lives True Crime

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4619 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The haunting disappearance of 5-year-old Oakley Carlson

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0:00.0

December 5th, 2021.

0:12.8

Oakville Elementary School principal Jessica Swift would invite her child's best friend over for a sleepover.

0:20.1

Little did she know this sweet six-year-old would

0:22.5

share a story that would chill her to her core and start a snowball effect, which would result

0:28.1

in the discovery of a missing five-year-old girl. Neighbors who would report not seeing this child

0:34.3

in some time, with no official sighting of Oakley in almost a year.

0:39.5

Despite her parents being arrested of her crimes against her siblings, we still don't have

0:44.3

any answers as to what happened to this smiley, happy, adorable little girl.

0:49.2

This is Oakley's story.

0:51.8

And trying to shine some light on this case.

0:54.5

It was one year ago today when Sheriff's deputies went and did a welfare check for Oakley

1:01.6

and found she was missing.

1:03.4

Since then, her biological parents have not cooperated with investigators, making the

1:07.8

search for her even more challenging, some troubling details from detectives during interviews with the couple's other children. Oakley's six-year-old

1:15.5

sister saying her mother told her not to talk about Oakley and that, quote, she had gone out

1:19.8

into the woods and had been eaten by wolves. Now, Oakley's former foster mother says she's still

1:25.7

looking for answers.

1:35.3

Oakley Lynn Carlson was born December 6th, 2016, to parents Jordan Bowers and Andrew Carlson.

1:38.8

Oakley would be the youngest of three children for the couple.

1:43.7

They already had a four-year-old boy and a one-year-old girl at the time Oakley was born.

1:49.1

Unfortunately, these kids were born into a toxic and abusive situation.

1:54.2

Bowers and Carlson had a methamphetamine addiction, and there was a number of reports of violent abuse towards each other.

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