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She's probably under some sort of control. If she's alive, because nobody's heard from her, none of her old friends, her phone is dead, her phone's dead. They've pinged it, they've done everything.

I've called companies 18 to see if it was sold. If somebody picks it up, put it under another number, nothing.

So it's obviously broken or something. She basically disappeared after the 20th. She no one's heard from her, no one's spoken to her, no one's seen her.

In September of 2017, 18-year-old Karina Susser went missing. In the years prior to her disappearance, the Bloomsberg Pennsylvania native lost all interest in school.

Her grades began to slip and she would have had to have gone to summer school in order to graduate. But Karina had different plans. She dropped out of Bloomsberg area high school and set her eyes towards the future.

She wanted to move in with her aunt who lived in Massachusetts in 2018, due to the fact that her and her mother Sabina were not getting along.

However, this move would never happen. A few months before Karina went missing, she had met a man by the name of Giovanni Puguerro.

Giovanni told Karina that he would be able to help her get a place to stay in New York City. In August of 2017, Karina picked up and went to the Big Apple.

She only took her cell phone and ID with her. She left all of her other belongings behind. It wouldn't be long before Karina disappeared and she's believed to have been the victim of human trafficking.

I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 183 of The Vanished. Karina slussers story.

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The Vanished is a family of two children.

The Vanished is a family of two children.

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