Case Update: Ebby Steppach

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

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

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

We first brought you Ebby's story back in March of 2017. Ebby's mom, Laurie, told us about her frustrating journey to have her daughter's case investigated properly. At the end of our original episode, there was a new team looking into her disappearance. Laurie was hopeful. A little over a year later, there would be a major break in the case when detective Tommy Hudson decided to search areas of the park where Ebby's car had been found. Areas that her family had been told were searched previously. That was when they discovered Ebby's remains just 60 feet from where her car had been found. In this update, Laurie is joining us again to discuss how Ebby was found and where her case stands today.

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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.
0:15.0	We first covered Ebby's story on March 17th, 2017.
0:20.0	To refresh your memory, we will play the original episode first with the update after.
0:25.0	If you remember this story well, you can fast forward to around the one hour mark where the update begins.
0:44.0	She sounded disoriental. She told him she was messed up.
0:49.0	But she did know she was in her car and didn't know where she was.
0:54.0	That's the last time anyone has ever talked to her.
1:04.0	I try to look at the things that will help other people at the cost of me not having my daughter.
1:11.0	And there are a lot of things that have happened, had it not been for my daughter, that no people wouldn't know about.
1:20.0	Hello and welcome to episode 69 of The Vanished.
1:27.0	The last time that anyone heard from 18 year old Ebby Steppick was on October 25th, 2015.
1:34.0	The day before she had contacted her stepfather about going to the Little Rock Police Department with her to report an incident that had happened at a party, but she never ended up meeting with him to go.
1:44.0	On the 25th, her brother spoke to Ebby on the phone and reported that she sounded confused and disoriented.
1:51.0	She couldn't tell him who she was with or where she was.
1:56.0	This is the last time that anyone heard from Ebby.
1:59.0	Several days later, Ebby's 2003 Volkswagen Passat was found in a park with her keys, her phone, contacts, make up, and other belongings that friends and family believe that Ebby would not have left behind.
2:11.0	The car had been left running but had since run out of gas and the battery was dead.
2:16.0	Ebby was quickly labeled as a runaway and it took eight months for the Little Rock Police Department to take her case seriously.
2:23.0	How much evidence was lost over those eight months? This is Ebby's story.
2:47.0	I'm Candace Dillon, host of the podcast Killer Psychie and in our newest season, we dissect the thoughts and behaviors of the most violent figures in history.
2:56.0	Follow Killer Psychie on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast or you can listen early and add free by joining Wondery Plus on Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.
3:07.0	Leading up to Ebby's disappearance, she had gone through one of those rebellious phases. I think most of us went through one of those phases during our own teen years but we learned our lessons, moved on, and dreaded going through that phase again someday with our own children.
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