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On Thursday, September 22nd, 2022, a 25-year-old woman left her apartment building in Salinas, California.

She looked like anyone else going to work that morning.

But she wasn't wearing the right clothes,

and she wasn't leaving at the right time. Aralee Garcia never made it to her job that morning.

Later that same day, her car was found more than an hour away with her phone, keys, and wallet

left behind. When police arrived, they found no indication of anything, not foul play,

not self-harm, and not a voluntary disappearance, just a car that was miles away from where it should

have been, and a young woman who broke her daily routine. Now, over three years later, her family

is still trying to piece together what happened

that September morning. When a person goes missing, there's a special kind of pain in the not

knowing. I want to tell the stories of those who never came home. Today, I want to tell you the

story of Arlie Garcia. I'm Kona Gallagher.

And I'm Ethan Flick.

And this is, and then they were gone. Welcome back, everyone. Thank you for joining us once again. I'm Kona. And I'm Ethan.

And we're the husband and wife team behind this podcast. Each week, I tell you the story of an unsolved missing person's case. Ethan doesn't know anything about the case going into the episode and is here to provide his reactions and questions

in real time, hopefully asking some of the same ones you have at home. So this case is,

it's so frustrating. There are so many tantalizing questions, but basically no answers.

Are you also, like, purposely finding cases that seem to be extremely similar to other cases that we've...

All of the abandoned cars, right?

Usually it's men, though.

Very few women leave behind a car like that.

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