Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus

content and conversation.

It's not easy to disappear, but it used to be, used to be there were no driver's licenses,

no credit cards, no internet to digitally track your every move.

Even birth certificates weren't a fact of life.

There were no social security numbers, no law enforcement databases,

to store your fingerprints or your DNA.

It was just your name and the place you hailed from.

This is a story about a woman disappeared.

But before she went missing, she went big, really big, big enough to make you wonder.

Did she vanish on her own?

Or did someone else make that decision for her?

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

True, weird stuff.

Kansas was an estate in 1857 the year she was born.

It joined the Union in January, 1861, just a few months before the first shot was fired in the American Civil War. Alfred Addis was a Confederate sympathizer, a slave owner, and photographer. He lived

with his wife and two children in Leavenworth, Kansas, the very first city to ever be incorporated

in the state.

Leavenworth was a place with a split personality.

On the one hand, it was where the pro-slavery law and order party was founded.

On the other, it lent its name to the Leavenworth Constitution, the most radically abolitionist of all the constitutions proposed

in Kansas. And something that isn't so well known is that Leavenworth had a secret, a network

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