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Bonnie and Jeremy Dages: Follow The Money

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Bonnie Lee Dages was an 18 year old from Lithia, FL. She loved horses and had a 4 ¼ month old son, Jeremy. On April 28, 1993, she and her son came home from getting her van cleaned. Bonnie then told her roommates she and Jeremy were going out. They were never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/In-Memory-of-Bonnie-Lee-Dages-102777126427162/?hc_location=group Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/bonnie-lee-dages NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/5644 Doe Network: http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/773dffl.html If you have any information regarding information on the disappearance of Bonnie and Jeremy Dages, please contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office at 813-247-8660. Unfound supports accounts on Podomatic, iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. And at Paypal: [email protected] --that is also the email address. --The Websites: unfoundpodcast.com. --triblive.com/news/unfound --Merchandise: --The books at Amazon.com in both ebook and print form. --don't forget the reviews. --shirts at myshopify.com/unfound-podcast. --cards at makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Bonnie Lee Dagus was an 18-year-old from Lithia, Florida.

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She loved horses and had a 4-and-a-half-month-old son, Jeremy.

0:07.0

On April 28, 1993, she and her son came home from getting her van cleaned.

0:12.0

Bonnie then told her roommate she and Jeremy were going out.

0:15.0

They were never seen again.

0:19.0

I'm a Denzel and this is unfound. I'm going to do. So, Follow the money. You've probably heard the saying. It got into our lexicon from one of my top 10 films of all time,

1:06.0

All the President's Men. The story of how Woodward and Bernstein worked through a maze of lies and campaign finance paperwork to bring down President

1:15.7

Nixon.

1:16.7

The ironic part?

1:18.9

In real life, Deep Throat, the Confidential Informant, never used that line.

1:24.0

A screenwriter came up with it as a way to explain to movie goers what Robert Redford and Dustin

1:29.2

Hoffman would be doing in the film.

1:31.8

Hey, Hollywood never allows the facts to get in the way of a good story.

1:35.0

The funny thing about money though is that it doesn't seem to be a popular motivator for people to go missing.

1:41.0

And rarely following the money will get us

1:44.0

where we need to go in solving a disappearance.

1:47.4

We know the main reasons for these cases,

1:50.0

relationships, drugs, jealousy, to cover up some other type of crime.

1:55.0

Money, not so much, although there are exceptions.

1:59.0

The recently solved Mike Williams case, for example.

2:03.4

Yet today, we possibly have one of these unique cases, although you're going to hear about

2:08.9

other more standard possibilities.

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