Case Continued: Ruth Egnoski - Open Secrets
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Last month, we shared Ruth Egnoski’s story with you. It was a complicated story to piece together from newspaper archives and what people could remember so many decades later. It felt as though there were many holes in the story that we may never get to fill in due to the passage of time. We couldn’t even nail down what year Ruth vanished.
We had submitted several record requests to the Delavan Police Department. Unfortunately, at the time that episode was produced, we had not heard anything. We decided to go forward with production because sometimes we never hear back, despite open records laws requiring a response within a specified period of time.
Less than a month after our episode aired, we were shocked to receive a large police file from the Delavan Police Department. The information in this file fills in many gaps in the story and answers many questions we had a month ago. What we learned while reading those files was shocking.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Ruth Egnoski, please call the Delavan Police Department at 262-728-6311.
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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 | It's always been in the family that Ruth ran away with a married man at 18 and was never seen again. |
| 0:28.0 | That was just always the family lore. |
| 0:31.0 | They tried to pin it on my grandpa and literally didn't have anything. |
| 0:35.0 | I mean, they dug up the old house where the family used to live. |
| 0:40.0 | I mean, they harassed my family. |
| 0:42.0 | This is like where my grandparents kind of grew up. |
| 0:46.0 | It's just the area where they both kind of grew up. |
| 0:48.0 | They moved out of the town. |
| 0:50.0 | I never had a conversation about this with my grandpa. |
| 0:53.0 | We kind of pretended it wasn't happening. |
| 0:56.0 | And in the fact that he was more arrested, it was like, OK, we all need to move on. |
| 1:02.0 | Last month we shared Ruth Ignosky's story with you. |
| 1:06.0 | It was a difficult story to piece together. |
| 1:08.0 | From newspaper archives and what people could remember so many decades later. |
| 1:12.0 | It felt as though there were many holes in the story that we may never get a chance to fill in due to the passage of time. |
| 1:20.0 | We couldn't even nail down what year Ruth vanished. |
| 1:23.0 | Maybe it was 1964, maybe 65 or 66. |
| 1:27.0 | No one could remember for sure. |
| 1:29.0 | We had submitted several record requests to the Deleven Police Department. |
| 1:33.0 | But unfortunately, at the time that episode was produced, we hadn't heard anything. |
| 1:38.0 | We decided to move forward with production because sometimes we never hear back. |
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