Acacia Bishop

The Vanished Podcast

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

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On May 25, 2003, 18-month-old Acacia Bishop was kidnapped from her great-grandmother's home in Salt Lake City, Utah. Acacia’s grandmother took the toddler and ran while Acacia’s great-grandmother left the room to put her vacuum away. This was not the first time that Acacia was taken by her grandmother. This time, she took Acacia to Idaho where they spent the night in a motel. The following day, the pair was spotted by witnesses playing by the Snake River. That was the last known sighting of Acacia Bishop. Authorities believe that Acacia drowned in a botched murder/suicide attempt that day, while some of her family believes it was an elaborate ruse and that Acacia was given to another family to raise.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Acacia Bishop, please call Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office at 801-743-7000.

You can follow Acacia’s case on social media at Acacia Bishop Missing Child.

For more information on psychologist, Dr. Taft, please visit his website or Facebook page.

This episode was co-researched and written by Marissa Jones and Erika Gwynn. To find more of Erika's work, please check out her podcast at https://www.apexandabyss.com.

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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.
0:06.0	Music.
0:25.0	She is a sweetheart. We'd take her outside and we have teeth in the backyard and ducks.
0:31.0	We've had them since, well, they've just reproduced from 1946 on up to present day.
0:38.0	We've kept them going. And the first word that was said and she learned was duck.
0:46.0	Because we got ducks out there and bird. So she knew duck and bird.
0:52.0	She just could run around the back lawn and she'd point a lot of the birds and the geese and the ducks.
1:00.0	And she'd just play and she was just a playful little girl. I mean, she was 19 months old.
1:07.0	And at that time that's about what they did. And I just watched her grow up.
1:14.0	On May 25, 2003, just days before she would have turned 19 months old,
1:21.0	a Sacy Abishup was at her great-grandmother's house in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1:26.0	A Sacy's great-grandmother was babysitting her while her parents attended a wedding rehearsal.
1:32.0	Throughout the day, a Sacy was helping her great-grandmother Linda clean and vacuum in the kitchen.
1:38.0	One of her favorite things to do. A Sacy's grandmother Kelly Jean Laudmell was also at the house that day.
1:45.0	At around 6 p.m., Kelly took a Sacy from the home when her great-grandmother Linda left the room.
1:51.0	Kidnapping the toddler. This was not the first time that Kelly had taken a Sacy without permission.
1:58.0	She had once taken her and hid her from her parents in the basement apartment where Kelly had been staying.
2:04.0	Kelly and Sacy's mother Kasey had a very strained mother-daughter relationship.
2:09.0	Due to Kelly's history of drug abuse, her mental health struggles due to her diagnosis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and her violent tendencies.
2:19.0	Kelly was frequently unable to afford her medications.
2:23.0	And often struggled with the vicious cycle of balancing her mood and thoughts and then abruptly not being able to do so.
2:31.0	On this day in May, when Sacy was abducted, Kelly took a Sacy to Idaho Falls, Idaho.
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