Brianna Vibert Part 1: Everyone Had Something to Hide
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 25 May 2026
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Summary
Just after midnight on July 15, 2017, 24-year-old Brianna Vibert walked into a Marathon gas station near her home in Flint Township, Michigan. She was visibly upset and had a cut on her arm. The clerk working that night recognized Brianna because she often came into the store. Brianna told him that she had gotten into a fight with her boyfriend and was looking for a ride.
A short time later, a man driving a red Pontiac Aztec pulled into the parking lot. According to the clerk, it appeared Brianna didn’t know the man, but she asked him for a ride anyway. At first, he declined and drove away. But after leaving, he changed his mind and returned to the gas station to pick her up. Around 1 AM, Brianna left with the man and disappeared into the night.
Two days later, on July 17, 2017, Brianna’s family reported her missing to the Flint Township Police Department. By then, they had already begun piecing together parts of Brianna’s final known movements. They learned about the unknown man in the red Aztec and discovered that, roughly 30 minutes after leaving the gas station, Brianna had contacted a friend she sometimes stayed with after arguments with her boyfriend. Brianna asked if she could spend the night there. The friend agreed, but Brianna never arrived.
As investigators retraced Brianna’s movements, the case quickly became more complicated. Surveillance footage revealed additional stops after Brianna left the Marathon station. Her belongings later surfaced in strange places. Witness accounts shifted, timelines stopped lining up, and investigators were left trying to determine whether the people surrounding Brianna were withholding information about her disappearance or hiding something else entirely.
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| 0:00.0 | I've never been in his position, but he lawyered up pretty early. |
| 0:13.4 | I think the police weren't buying his phone story, and he lawyered up real quick. |
| 0:17.6 | So I don't know that anybody's ever been able to ask him the questions like, |
| 0:21.4 | what were your conversations? I don't think we knew. We were not thinking 10 years down the road. |
| 0:27.7 | We're thinking we want to find her right now. We weren't thinking you're never going to see you again. |
| 0:31.6 | We're thinking, where the hell are you at? To have that gap in time and have it on a place that doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:39.3 | And I had so many weeds I chased down people I was suspicious of. |
| 0:44.3 | Just after midnight on July 15, 2017, |
| 0:49.3 | 24-year-old Brianna Vibert walked into a marathon gas station near her home in Flint Township, Michigan. |
| 0:55.9 | She was visibly upset and had a cut on her arm. The clerk working that night recognized Brianna |
| 1:01.3 | because she came into the store often. Brianna told him that she had gotten into a fight with her |
| 1:06.3 | boyfriend and was looking for a ride. A short time later, a man driving a red Pontiac Aztec pulled into the |
| 1:12.8 | parking lot of the gas station. According to the clerk, it seemed obvious that Brianna didn't know the man, |
| 1:18.6 | but she asked him for a ride anyway. At first, the man declined and drove away. But after leaving, |
| 1:25.0 | he changed his mind and returned to the gas station to give Brianna a ride. |
| 1:29.2 | Around 1 a.m., the two drove off together into the night. Two days later, on the afternoon of July 17th, |
| 1:35.6 | 2017, members of Brianna's family walked into the Flint Township Police Department to report |
| 1:41.2 | her missing. They had been contacted by Brianna's boyfriend, who said |
| 1:45.4 | she had been missing since the early morning hours of July 15th. Before they went to the police, |
| 1:51.0 | they had already begun piecing together parts of Brianna's final known movements. They had learned |
| 1:56.2 | about her visit to the Marathon gas station, that she had left with an unknown mail, and that roughly 30 |
| 2:01.8 | minutes after leaving the gas station, Brianna had contacted a friend she had stayed with in the past |
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