Andrea Cotten
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
17-year-old Andrea Cotten disappeared from Corsicana, Texas, in late January of 2004. In 2021, a local resident reached out to us about Andrea- the only missing person in Corsicana. So we started doing research and looking for people who knew her, and would talk to us. We learned that Andrea’s story was far bigger, more scandalous, and stranger than we could have imagined, all with Andrea, not yet an adult but not seemingly considered a child, at its center. There were stories that Andrea was last seen leaving in a truck with two men and other stories pointing to her own family.
If you have any information about Andrea’s disappearance, please call the Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol division in Corsicana at (903) 872-5633. You can also contact the Texas Department of Public Safety Missing Persons Clearinghouse at 1-(800) 346-3243.
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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. |
| 0:17.0 | I thought one picture of her. She looks kind of like my sister. |
| 0:21.0 | Andrei had, she had born here when she was young. I've never seen a picture where she had pretty born here. |
| 0:28.0 | I just still have heard her voice. Well, she's still that sweet little innocent child. |
| 0:35.0 | I'll take responsibility for my part of it because I wasn't there. |
| 0:39.0 | It was selfish, but it was my form of freedom because I wanted to do what I wanted to do. |
| 0:46.0 | I didn't have any bills to pay. I didn't want to be a bad influence on it. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, that's another reason for me not to be around. |
| 0:54.0 | We're just lost children. I know that's probably what I am. I'm an hour-grown lost kid. |
| 1:01.0 | It was the winter of 2004 when two pretty young women went missing. |
| 1:06.0 | Their cases were eerily similar, despite occurring thousands of miles away from each other. |
| 1:11.0 | They vanished in the dark of night, both in rural areas. |
| 1:15.0 | Each young woman was struggling. There were allegations of alcohol misuse, and they had both been in legal trouble. |
| 1:22.0 | Their futures had the potential to be bright and successful, but their sudden disappearance |
| 1:27.0 | has brought those prospects to a halt. |
| 1:30.0 | One of these women would have every second leading up to her disappearance scrutinized |
| 1:34.0 | an examin' over the next 18 years. |
| 1:37.0 | Intellivision shows, podcasts, books, and other media. |
| 1:41.0 | She's one of the most well-known missing persons in the true crime realm to this day. |
| 1:45.0 | And the other woman, well, we can promise you've never heard of her until today. |
| 1:50.0 | Amarissa and from Wondery, this is Episode 343 of The Vanished. Andrea Cotton's story. |
| 2:21.0 | Before we get started, just a quick disclaimer. |
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