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Well, maybe she was just away getting away from it all. It was just all too much.

I stuck with that for a long time. Even today, like, I love to believe and I still for a long time, felt like she was just gone.

She met someone or she's lost the state. Because I do the grander you don't want to assume the worst.

And there's no evidence. There's no evidence that I'm aware of. I have seen no hard facts or evidence.

I mean, how did someone just up and disappear? For me, it feels like she almost just disappeared into an air.

On the evening of December 12, 2003, 23 year old Becky Marzo went out with friends to a local club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

While at the club, her phone kept ringing and her boyfriend was angry. He wanted Becky to come home, but she wanted to spend the night with her friends.

So she decided to turn off her phone. One of her friends asked if she wanted to go home, but Becky said no, she wanted to stay.

When her friend dropped her off later that night at the home she shared with her boyfriend, no one knew that they'd never see Becky again.

Nearly 20 years later, her friends and family are still looking for answers about what happened to the young woman who was missed out on her entire life, and those of the ones she loved most.

I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 398 of The Vanished. Becky Marzo's story, part one, escape.

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Before we begin today's episode, we wanted to warn you that Becky's story contains graphic discussion of intimate partner violence. Please take care while listening.

Becky's younger sister Katie was the first person to reach out to us about covering Becky's story. She told us that there were a variety of factors that led her to contact us. This is what she shared when we spoke with her.

I was a kid when my sister went missing. And then after the first five years, I started my own family, my own life. I became an adult. My mom was the only one really pushing to solve my sister's case.

She ran into a ton of roadblocks with Milwaukee PD. So the last couple of years, I've really liked gotten involved with my sister's case and with other family members that are going through the similar thing as me.

And so two years ago, I reached out to the Milwaukee Police Department, and I wanted to learn what was going on with my sister's case. And at that time, I was told that there was no detective on the case.

So I got kind of frustrated and I'm like, where do I go from here? I want to know what's going on with my sister's case. I feel like I have that right. And then more recently, I was working with Michelle, Marcia, and she runs the clearinghouse for the state of Wisconsin for the missing.

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