Case Update: Johnathan Hamilton
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
We first aired Johnathan Hamilton's story in a two-part series in October of 2017. At the time, we left off with Johnathan's case considered suspended. The Bastrop Police Department believed that they had run down all of the leads, and there was nothing else left to investigate. They believed that Johnathan wasn't in Bastrop. Investigators told Angie that Johnathan wanted to leave his life behind, he was capable, and likely getting insulin from charity programs. Johnathan's mother, Angie, persisted and never gave up fighting for her son. Something didn't seem right about this. She didn't think Johnathan would have left for this long without contact, and she didn't have a single shred of proof that he ever left the town of Bastrop. In the end, Angie was right. Jonathan wasn't living on the streets of Austin, he hadn't made it to Mexico, he wasn't getting insulin from a charity. Something did happen to Johnathan Hamilton in Bastrop, Texas. Four years after Johnathan disappeared, a man swimming at a park in Bastrop made a gruesome discovery, which shifted the focus of this case right back to Bastrop, Texas, and that night back in May of 2015 when this all began.
If you have any information regarding the death of Johnathan Hamilton, please contact the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office at (512) 549-5100. You can follow Angie’s quest for answers on Facebook at Justice for Johnathan Lee Hamilton.
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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. |
| 0:14.0 | We first brought you Jonathan Hamilton's story in a two-part series in October of 2017. |
| 0:21.0 | To refresh your memory, we'll play the original episodes first. |
| 0:25.0 | We have remastered and condensed these two episodes for time. |
| 0:28.0 | If you remember this story well, you can fast forward to around the one hour and ten minute mark where the update begins. |
| 0:46.0 | I don't know what to think. I don't know what to believe. |
| 0:50.0 | None of this makes sense. There's too many individuals telling different stories. |
| 0:54.0 | Including law enforcement, somebody knows what happened. |
| 0:58.0 | Jonathan mattered to us. He still matters to us. |
| 1:02.0 | We love him. We miss him. This is not right. |
| 1:09.0 | Well, we're over two years later and there's no sign of him. |
| 1:14.0 | And generally, we can find something. |
| 1:17.0 | 26-year-old Jonathan Hamilton left his home in Houston, Texas on May 2, 2015. |
| 1:25.0 | Two days later, he showed up in Bastrop, Texas, which is just a couple hours away from where he was last seen in Houston. |
| 1:32.0 | He abandoned his vehicle and had best-by-parking lot. It had run out of gas. |
| 1:37.0 | Several people in the town of Bastrop, including the police, interacted with Jonathan that day. |
| 1:43.0 | And then, he simply vanished off the face of the earth. |
| 1:45.0 | In this first part of Jonathan's story, we're going to dig into the days leading up to his disappearance, |
| 1:51.0 | up until the last time he was reportedly seen on May 4. |
| 1:55.0 | This is one of those cases that will leave you wondering, guessing, coming up with theories. |
| 1:59.0 | It's truly a mystery. I'm Rissa, and this is episode 95 of The Vanished, part one of Jonathan Hamilton's story. |
| 2:21.0 | Before we really get into the details surrounding Jonathan's disappearance, there are two really important things you should know about him. |
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