Chris Turner - Part 2
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Chris Turner disappeared from Las Vegas, Nevada in August of 2016. You heard Chris's story in Episode 83. Many people listened and decided to come forward with information. Three days after Part 1 aired, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department decided to close his case without making contact with Chris. Warning: this episode contains language and subject matter that may be offensive to the LGBT community.
AUGUST 2020 UPDATE- On August 4, 2020, Chris Turner’s family was notified that his remains had been recovered and identified via DNA testing. “Christopher's remains were found. I will give more details when we get them. Thank you to EVERYONE who helped us in the last four years. Please give my family privacy at this time. -Dawn (Chris’ Mother).”
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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. |
| 0:16.0 | But she lied, and it caused me some case to be closed. |
| 0:22.0 | So many people, after part one, have vanished, hit so many people came forward. |
| 0:32.0 | People are angry. They're angry at me in some case. And all these people calling detectives, |
| 0:38.0 | like, how can you close the case? Like, how do you close it when we have all this evidence? |
| 0:45.0 | I don't think she realized that Chris has kind of a crazy mom, and I'm not stopping. |
| 0:52.0 | Like, I'm not... I'm not gonna stop. I'm... everything that she says does. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm gonna contradict with the truth. |
| 1:03.0 | 393 days. That's how many days 23-year-old Chris Turner has been missing from Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 1:10.0 | You heard his story in episode 83, and now you'll hear what's come to light since that aired back in July. |
| 1:17.0 | In part one, you heard from Chris's mom, Dawn. She told us how Chris's girlfriend had been telling many different stories about the last time she saw him. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, her stories have continued to change, and just days after the podcast aired, the police department closed Chris's case. |
| 1:32.0 | Dawn has been left still searching for her son with no assistance from law enforcement. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Marisa, and this is episode 89 of The Vanished, part two of Chris Turner's story. |
| 1:56.0 | The Vanished, part two of Chris Turner's story. |
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| 2:59.0 | If you haven't listened to the first episode about Chris, I suggest that you pause this here and go listen to that first. |
| 3:05.0 | To give you a very brief recap, Chris went missing in August of 2016. His girlfriend, Nikki, has told different stories about him leaving on the morning of August 6. |
| 3:16.0 | She stated that he went to a carpenter's union to look for work, and in another story, she said he left with a Bible. |
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