Christopher Winkler

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

19-year-old Christopher Winkler disappeared from Burlington, Wisconsin on February 16th, 1987. That evening, a friend had stopped by Chris’s home and noticed that Chris seemed to be nervous and sweating. Later that night, Chris knocked on a friend’s door looking for help but his friend’s grandfather told him to leave. After that, Chris vanished. Do you know what happened to Chris Winkler? If you have any information, you can contact Crime Stoppers at 888-636-9330 or the We Help the Missing Anonymous Tip Line at 866-660-4025. You can follow Chris's case on Facebook at Help Find Missing - Christopher James Winkler.

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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.
0:18.0	They did tell us that they seized the wood shipper. I mean, this is the kind of stuff they told us they did with them that they just numbered him.
0:25.0	In putting them in a wood shipper and they fed them to pigs.
0:33.0	19-year-old Christopher Winkler disappeared from Burlington, Wisconsin on February 16, 1987.
0:40.0	That evening, a friend had stopped by Chris's home and noticed that Chris seemed to be nervous and sweating.
0:47.0	Later that night, Chris knocked on a friend's door looking for help, but his friend's grandfather told him to leave.
0:52.0	After that, Chris vanished.
0:56.0	Chris's mom went to great lengths to search for her son after he disappeared, but she since passed away not ever knowing what happened to her son.
1:04.0	Several years ago, Chris's nieces picked up where their grandmother had left off.
1:09.0	Their hope is that they can find Chris and finally put him to rest. They've been hearing tales of drugs, motorcycle gangs, and organized crime.
1:17.0	Chris's family believes that his disappearance is somehow related to a burglary that occurred a few months earlier.
1:24.0	There was a dangerous web of people surrounding Chris leading up to his disappearance.
1:29.0	What happened to Chris Winkler on February 16, 1987? Someone out there knows the answer to that question.
1:36.0	Do you hold the key to solving this mystery?
1:39.0	I'm Marissa and this is Episode 88 of The Vanished, the Christopher Winkler story.
2:10.0	Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.
2:24.0	In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan, and Dame Harriet Walter. And that's just a few.
2:35.0	We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer. It's terrific conversation,
2:42.0	reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.
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3:06.0	At the end of the last episode, I said that this week I would be covering in case from Hawaii.
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