Aaron Watkins

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Watkins was just 18 years-old when he vanished from New Jersey on November 11, 2007. Aaron had a tough childhood going from a home with his mother and siblings into foster care and eventually being adopted by a very strict, religious family. Before he disappeared, he was struggling to figure out where he fit in this world and who he belonged with. On November 11, 2007, he made a series of phone calls to those close to him and then the Jeep he was driving was found abandoned on the Driscoll Bridge. What happened to Aaron? Did he jump that day? Did take off and start over somewhere else? Did someone make his disappearance look like a suicide? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:10.0	I only care that Aaron's pounding. I don't even care if Aaron doesn't ever want to talk to us.
0:15.0	All I care about is that he's okay or not.
0:19.0	And that if he is okay, he can go on about his life, however he chooses.
0:25.0	We just want to know that he's alive. If he's not alive, then he needs to be pounding but the rest. That's all I'm asking.
0:34.0	You know, you just need someone to talk to. You're there until I said. There's a very warmhearted person.
0:42.0	I don't think they did anything. I think they could take included that he probably jumped in that with the end of it.
0:50.0	Hello and welcome to episode 61 of The Vanished.
0:56.0	18-year-old Aaron Watkins disappeared on November 11, 2007.
1:03.0	The vehicle he was driving was located abandoned on the Driscoll Bridge, which spans the Raritan River and connects Woodbridge, New Jersey to Saraville, New Jersey.
1:12.0	The waters below were extensively searched, but no trace of Aaron has ever been found.
1:17.0	Unfortunately, many people have jumped to their deaths off the Driscoll Bridge, but their bodies have been found.
1:24.0	Did Aaron kill himself on November 11, 2007, and his body just wasn't located?
1:30.0	Did he fake his own death in order to start a new life, or did someone want to make it look like Aaron committed suicide?
1:36.0	We will explore these questions and much more. This is Aaron's story.
1:42.0	The Vanished River
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2:02.0	Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape.
2:10.0	And found me Rob Briden on my podcast.
2:14.0	In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.
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