"And they drove away"

The Daily Crime

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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This month, 33 years ago, 19-year-old Susan Swedell stopped at a gas station on her way home from work after experiencing car trouble. She was last seen getting into a man's car, which left in the direction of her home. Aaron Adelson, who has covered this story for KARE 11 in Minneapolis, Minn., talks about the search for answers that has now stretched on for over three decades. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.1	Even 32 years later, Christine wanted to say she didn't run away, and that matters to them.
0:08.4	They feel like something happened.
0:11.7	She's hopeful that she's still alive.
0:14.1	For Vault Studios, I'm Reed Redmond.
0:16.9	You're listening to The Daily Kron.
0:23.8	January 19, 1988.
0:27.1	A blizzard is blowing through the suburbs of Minneapolis in St. Paul, Minnesota.
0:31.5	And snow is piling up as 19-year-old Susan Swaddell drives home from her job at Kmart.
0:37.9	She's almost made it back to her family's home in the tiny suburb of Lake Elmo.
0:42.7	When she notices something is wrong with her car and pulls off at a gas station.
0:47.3	19-year-old Susan Swadale was on her way home from work in Oak Park Heights.
0:52.0	Witnesses say she stopped at a gas station about a mile away from her home in Lake Elmo.
0:57.2	It's from this gas station in the middle of this snowstorm that Susan Swaddell would vanish.
1:02.8	Susan Swaddle is still missing.
1:04.7	We must share her story so we can bring her home.
1:07.3	Every single day feels like a living hell without her. We are not letting go.
1:14.2	Aaron Adelson, you covered this story for Kara Levin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. First off,
1:18.9	thank you for taking some time to share this story with us. Absolutely, my pleasure.
1:22.8	So, Aaron, introduce us to this story. Who was Susan Swardell? And what do we know about
1:27.2	the circumstances
1:28.4	surrounding her disappearance in 1988? Yeah, she's a young girl about to turn 20. It was January
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