Brian Vargo

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

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🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Sometime in March 1976, 20-year-old Brian Vargo vanished from Austin, Texas. He had unenrolled from all of his classes at the University of Texas at Austin at the end of February, just a few weeks prior to his disappearance. He indicated in his application to unenroll that he intended to return to classes in the summer quarter of 1976. However, Brian seemingly vanished into thin air and has not been seen or heard from since. His story is one of soul-searching and a young man who seemed to be looking for an independent identity as an adult, finding his own way in life. Whether or not he ever achieved that goal and what happened to him remains a mystery.

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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.
0:18.0	She was asking questions like, what's being done with Brian? Are you calling Brian?
0:26.0	Are you doing this? Are you going to shoot? Ask my grandfather questions and he was, I'm taking care of it. I'm taking care of it.
0:32.0	And so that's just the way things work for that generation. To me, it's a perfect storm of what happened in the 70s.
0:40.0	With all of the murdered missing cases, it came about at a perfect time when parents were in the older parents especially don't ask questions,
0:51.0	but you let your kids do what they want kind of thing. They need to go find themselves.
0:57.0	The hardest part was actually getting information because my family as a coping mechanism just kind of was like, okay, it doesn't exist anymore.
1:10.0	And it's been almost 50 years and my grandmother's 100 now.
1:16.0	Some time in March of 1976, 20-year-old Brian Vargo vanished from Austin, Texas.
1:24.0	He had unenrolled from all of his courses at the University of Texas at Austin at the end of February, just a few weeks prior to his disappearance.
1:34.0	He indicated in his application to unenroll that he intended to return to classes in the summer of 1976.
1:42.0	However, Brian seemingly vanished into thin air and has not been seen or heard from since. His story is one of soul searching.
1:50.0	An young man who seemed to be looking for an independent identity as an adult and finding his own way in life.
1:56.0	Whether or not he ever achieved that goal and what happened to him remains a mystery.
2:01.0	I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 410 of The Vanished. Brian Vargo's story.
2:11.0	The seaside town of Amble is cold grey and run down. So when a wild dolphin appears, it's the miracle everyone's been waiting for.
2:35.0	Some believe Freddie has healing powers, others that he's an alien, everyone wants to swim with him.
2:47.0	Until one day someone is accused of taking things way too far.
2:55.0	Alan Cooper committed an act of allude, obscene and disgusting nature.
3:00.0	A tabloid scandal leads to a court battle that grips the whole country.
3:05.0	By behaving in an indecent manner with a bottle nose dolphin.
3:10.0	From Wondery and Blanchard House, I'm Becky Milligan and this is hooked on Freddie, a tale of friendship, rivalry and a bizarre accusation that spirals completely out of control.
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