Case Update: Tyress Gipson
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
On August 22, 2020, 18-year-old Tyress Gipson disappeared from Jacksonville, Texas. Tyress had left home to go hang out with friends but never returned. His family immediately knew that something wasn't right. Tyress was a bright young man with his whole life ahead of him. This wasn't like him. Who would have wanted to harm Tyress? It wouldn't be long before several suspects were identified. When we first aired Tyress Gipson's story in 2021, four people had been arrested in connection with his disappearance. In early 2023, one of those individuals went to trial. But did the prosecution have enough evidence to prove their case? Tyress' mom, LaVance, joins us again to discuss what has transpired since our original episode aired.
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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 brought you Tyree Skipsen's story in January of 2021. |
| 0:20.0 | At that time, four individuals had been arrested in his case, but none had been tried. |
| 0:26.0 | As of this update in April of 2023, one of those individuals has gone to trial, and the other three have not. |
| 0:34.0 | To refresh your memory, we're going to play the original episode first, with the update at the end. |
| 0:40.0 | If you remember this story well, you can fast forward to around the one-hour mark where the update begins. |
| 0:46.0 | I went back and was looking through his photo app, and this just was like, I just still cannot believe I didn't see my child in 106 days. |
| 1:02.0 | And you know, I can't believe that people just are just sitting in jail with so much evil in their heart that they don't feel like I deserve to know who my kid is. |
| 1:12.0 | Sometimes I have a dream, like I feel like, oh, that's just a dream. This didn't really happen. |
| 1:18.0 | So I do when I wake up and realize that it's reality. It's like a slow, overbearing sadness that just falls upon you. |
| 1:28.0 | And then, you know, since I have a relationship with the Lord, which I am so thankful for because I would not have ever been unmated as far with my son missing. |
| 1:38.0 | Nobody's children are perfect. No human walking on this earth is perfect. We're going to make mistakes. And if we don't make mistakes, then we should have been going on with the Lord. |
| 1:49.0 | What is God going to do with a perfect person down here? |
| 1:53.0 | On August 22, 2020, 18-year-old Tyree Skipson left his Jacksonville, Texas home that he shared with his mother, stepfather, and sisters. |
| 2:03.0 | His intentions were to go hang out with some friends and possibly go to a party. But none of Tyree's friends saw him that evening. And he never came back home. |
| 2:14.0 | Tyree's family reported him missing immediately and began searching for him on their own. |
| 2:20.0 | But details would soon emerge that were far more horrific than anyone could have believed. |
| 2:26.0 | I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is Episode 266 of The Vanished. Tyree Skipson's story. |
| 2:35.0 | Tyree Skipson's story. |
| 2:51.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah. And I'm Syrte. And we are the hosts of A Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 2:57.0 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 3:00.0 | From Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders, and our recent rundown of The Murdoch Saga. |
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