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Amanda Fravel: The Ultimate Puzzle

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Lee Fravel was an 18 year old living in LasVegas, NV. In 1985. she had moved there from California due to a turbulent home life. On Friday the 13th of June, 1986, Mandy left her apartment to get a paycheck from her job. She never reached her destination. She was never seen again. Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/amanda-lee-fravel NAMUS: https://namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/8239 Websleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/nv-amanda-fravel-20-las-vegas-june-1986.61681/#post-13101976 If anyone has any information regarding the disappearance of Amanda Fravel, please contact Las Vegas Metro at (702) 229-2907. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, websites, and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Amanda Lee Fravel was an 18-year-old living in Las Vegas, Nevada.

0:04.0

In 1985, she had moved there from California due to a turbulent home life.

0:09.0

On Friday the 13th of June, 1986, Mandy left her apartment to get a paycheck from her job.

0:16.0

She never reached her destination.

0:18.6

She was never seen again. I'm a Denzel and this is unfound. I'm going to do. So, I'm often asked by friends, by the audience during the live show and Wednesday nights by listeners privately

1:06.1

what got me into this

1:08.3

Unfound taking an interest in missing persons cases, etc.

1:13.4

When I answer I feel like I let these people down because I'm not sure my response is really that

1:18.0

interesting or unique.

1:20.3

As I've said many times, I am one of of you I do this for the same reasons all of you listen

1:26.7

It's a combination of us wanting to help people along with our love of mysteries and and we like to find solutions.

1:34.6

For me personally, I got to the point where I decided, why work on crosswords or word jumbles

1:40.4

or whatever?

1:41.8

Why waste time with those when there are so many real world mysteries?

1:45.6

Well today, Unfound has a family that needs your help, your problem solving abilities,

1:54.8

because you're going to hear about a woman who went missing and the former roommate who could be a person of interest in her

1:58.7

disappearance. In fact we could call this a minimum information problem, because the family believes the roommate

2:05.8

was using an alias in 1986.

2:08.6

We are not sure of the exact address where they lived at the time, and the roommate hasn't been seen since. Can we find

2:16.4

him and solve the ultimate puzzle? And now summary of the case, this is brought to you by my friend Megan Goodsight Charlie Project.org.

2:29.0

In addition, I have to mention that Megan introduced me to today's guest.

2:34.0

Mandy Frevel spent her formative years in California.

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