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I think my dad was involved in some way. I just don't know how I think it's as fun possibly that my mom is alive.

I just don't know how I feel about it. I just don't know how I feel about it.

I'm sorry because you've ever been looked for her because of me. And he still doesn't do that.

So that hurts from a father who you think like he doesn't love you enough to even help you find your mom that hurts a lot.

There are so many possibilities that have gone through my head that I don't have any evidence or enough evidence to back up.

Any evidence is just all what I think based on what I've been told by him essentially.

So I just don't think she lives anymore.

On June 20th, 2019, 51-year-old Angela Green had an argument with her 18-year-old daughter, Ellie, who had just finished her sophomore year of college and completed a study abroad program in Italy.

The argument came to its conclusion when Angela told Ellie to leave the family home in Prairie Village, Kansas.

Ellie left and hasn't seen her mom since. In fact, no one has seen Angela Green in the 16 months since Ellie left the home that day.

This story is one filled with a series of strange events, with odd twists that may or may not have even taken place at all.

I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 248 of The Vanished, part one of Angela Green's story.

Hi, I'm Sarah Hagi, co-host of Wondery's podcast, Scample Insers. In our recent two-part series, Three Weddings and a Funeral, we dive into the story of a German con man who built an entire life on fake names, lies, and schemes, and the unlikely true-kind twist that brought this decades-long charade crashing down.

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Angela Green was a native of China, who moved to the United States to marry her husband Jeff Green. After they met in China and kept in contact after he returned to the US, Angela and Jeff had one child together, a daughter named Ellie, who Angela dedicated her heart and soul into raising.

We spoke to Ellie for this story, and we asked her to share with us who her mother is.

She's absolutely amazing and super kind. She was born in China and came over here in her 20s, and then she married my dad, had me a couple years later, and basically poured her life into me.

And I was the only child. I got all of the attention, but it's a good and the bad. She didn't have a job, so she took care of me full time, took me to and from school almost every single day, took thousands and thousands of pictures of me.

She spoke English and she stayed English when she was in China and in college, but she wasn't completely fluent, so we ended up talking mostly in Mandarin, so I now know Mandarin fluently, which is really cool actually.

Now, she also is a bit of a tiger mom, and she pushed me very hard academically, and I took piano and violin lessons, but I'm glad she pushed me very hard now.

I am a very strong work ethic because of it, and I also drive after her even. Like the way she would present people with gifts, or she would always trade food and flowers with my neighbors, and just like all the different life lessons.

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