A CHILD VANISHES IN NEW MEXICO: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ANDREW ESCOBAR
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Eleven-year-old Andrew Oliver Escobar was finally settling back in with his father in Albuquerque. Re-enrolled at his old elementary school, he was playing chess, learning . Then, on June 25, 2023, Andrew went to his mother's for a court-ordered weekend visit. He never came back.
In this first episode of our new season, we examine Andrew's disappearance and the painful reality facing families when a child is taken by a parent: that the system is rarely built for them. Andrew is now fourteen years old. His father has never stopped searching.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the first episode in our latest season featuring missing persons across the United States. |
| 0:05.9 | The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee zone. |
| 0:10.0 | All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. |
| 0:14.3 | There is brief mention of an allegation of child abuse in this episode. |
| 0:18.5 | So, listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:27.9 | This is the fall line. Over the past two years, we've continued to connect with grassroots |
| 0:35.9 | activists and advocates across the United States, |
| 0:39.6 | but most especially in New Mexico, where we have formed strong bonds with both families and |
| 0:45.2 | organizers. We were approached by one such group, Anties for Justice, to cover several cases |
| 0:51.5 | and connected with the families of the missing. |
| 0:58.7 | Because of their work, you will hear coverage of two different missing persons this season, |
| 1:01.4 | along with more case coverage from Montana. |
| 1:06.2 | To cover today's case, we should start in the city of Rio Rancho. |
| 1:12.2 | That's where 11-year-old Andrew Oliver Escobar was last seen, back in June of 2023. |
| 1:20.0 | Though he was living with his father and stepmother in Albuquerque, he'd made the short trip to Rio Rancho to spend the weekend with his mother. |
| 1:28.4 | It should have been a routine visit. Rio Rancho is in the Albuquerque metro area, and close enough that Andrew could travel back and forth easily. |
| 1:35.3 | On June 25th, Andrew went for one of those short trips, and he hasn't been seen since. |
| 1:40.4 | It has been nearly three years, and today, Andrew is 14 years old. |
| 1:45.2 | Unlike many of the cases we've covered on the fall line, we know exactly what happened to Andrew. And his father, Juan, knows too, and that has made the search for him even more agonizing, |
| 1:51.6 | because he is absolutely certain that his son is out there in one of a few states close to their |
| 1:57.6 | home in New Mexico. And yet, despite effort on every level, personal, legal, |
| 2:03.1 | and criminal, Juan cannot reach him. That's because Andrew was taken by his own mother, then known |
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