Christopher "Cole" Thomas
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
22-year-old Cole Thomas had taken a break from college to work a construction job and earn some money. During the fall of 2016, he traveled from his home in Florida to work on a job in Minnesota. Right before Thanksgiving, a couple of co-workers that he had recently met asked Cole to drive them to North Carolina, presumably to spend the holiday with their families. Cole agreed to drive them but what he didn’t realize was that the people he thought were his friends, weren’t friends at all and that he was headed straight into danger that would cost him his life.
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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. |
| 0:07.0 | Music. |
| 0:22.0 | There's so much that I can tell you, you know, most parents I know that's been in this situation that I'm in. |
| 0:28.0 | They keep the word out there and they keep them alive and they don't want to be forgotten. |
| 0:33.0 | But not only have I done all that, along with having my autistic son and everything else that goes on in our life, I've also been part of the investigation the whole time. |
| 0:45.0 | I've non-stop. |
| 0:47.0 | Since that time, I've been 100% in the investigation as much as I can be. |
| 0:55.0 | We have found out so much information, you know, like any parent would, I'm just not going to stop. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm going to keep pushing and I want to help other people at the same time. |
| 1:08.0 | It eases my pain knowing I could help somebody else. |
| 1:12.0 | It's places I'm going through and people tell me all the time that I'm the strongest person they know, but I don't always feel that way. |
| 1:20.0 | In this case here, I know my son was murdered. |
| 1:23.0 | 100% without a shadow of a doubt. |
| 1:26.0 | 22-year-old Cole Thomas, a Florida native, had been working construction jobs around the country with a friend from home and was on a project in Minnesota. |
| 1:38.0 | He was on a break from intense pre-med studies at his university and wanted to make some money. |
| 1:45.0 | On the week of Thanksgiving in 2016, Cole and some of his co-workers that he had met on the Minnesota project headed down to North Carolina, presumably to have Thanksgiving dinner with the family of one of his co-workers. |
| 2:00.0 | However, that never happened. |
| 2:02.0 | And Cole has not been seen since November 25, 2016. |
| 2:08.0 | This story is filled with mysteries, twists, shady characters, and so many unanswered questions. |
| 2:14.0 | I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is Episode 228 of The Vanished, Cole Thomas's Story. |
| 2:38.0 | The End |
| 2:42.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
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