Case Update: Zachary Kennedy
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
We first brought you Zachary Kennedy's story in January of 2018. Zachary disappeared from Long Beach, California, on October 22, 2017. He was at the home of an acquaintance, Scott Leo, when his phone activity suddenly stopped, and the phone powered down. Scott Leo later stated that Zachary left on foot that night, but he was never seen or heard from again. Six months after he had vanished, police made a gruesome discovery. We all thought that justice would be swift, but we were wrong. It would be two more years before charges were filed against Leo. Join us for an update with Jeff Kennedy and the family attorney, Karen Gold.
UPDATE: In March of 2022, Scott Leo was found guilty of drug charges in relation to Zachary’s death and sentenced to a maximum of 6 years and 8 months in state prison.
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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 | This episode originally aired on January 13, 2018. |
| 0:20.0 | To refresh your memory, I will replay the original episode with an update at the end, |
| 0:25.0 | including a new interview with Zachary's father, Jeff. If you remember this story well and don't need a refresher, |
| 0:32.0 | you can fast forward to around the 30-minute mark where the update begins. |
| 0:37.0 | Every time I park on somebody, I'm second-deafs in everything that they tell me, |
| 0:51.0 | because I'm getting frustrated here because everything's in California. |
| 0:57.0 | Really upset that these people aren't being truthful and are hiding something. |
| 1:04.0 | And people are hurting. This family deserves answers. |
| 1:10.0 | Rolling press with his detective, I mean he's, he at least tries to contact me every day, |
| 1:18.0 | he'll try to call me or if not, because I mean sometimes I beat him to the punch. |
| 1:23.0 | I always say that I'd best be hearing, but like a lot of age, he won't be best with me as well. |
| 1:30.0 | 31-year-old Zach Kennedy disappeared from Long Beach, California on October 22, 2017. |
| 1:39.0 | Zach had been at a friend's house that day and sent a text message to his partner John that afternoon, |
| 1:44.0 | asking if he wanted to go to dinner later that evening. |
| 1:47.0 | No one has seen or heard from Zach since. |
| 1:51.0 | His friend claims Zach left on foot that evening, but didn't know where he was going, |
| 1:55.0 | or even what direction he headed when he left. |
| 1:58.0 | Zach was known to always be on his phone and his partner became concerned after he was unable to reach him. |
| 2:04.0 | Assuming that Zach was with some other friends, he contacted them and was shocked to learn that no one had seen or heard from Zach for days. |
| 2:12.0 | After calling around to hospitals and jails with no luck, he decided to file a missing persons report. |
| 2:18.0 | What happened to Zach Kennedy on October 22, 2017? |
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