Dakota Lee Stump

The Vanished Podcast

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

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On October 10, 2016, 19- year-old Army Pvt. Dakota Stump disappeared from Fort Hood. Army officials believed that Dakota had just taken off but his family believed that was not something Dakota would do. He had always been very responsible. What followed was a bizarre set of circumstances that has left his family with more questions than answers.

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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	The cut is wanted to be military since he was seven years old. I mean, a lot of children, they
0:25.0	changed their career path. Well, Dakota never did. Seven years old decided he was going in the
0:32.0	military and that never, ever changed. I mean, it was just something that he wanted to do.
0:39.0	So, you know, I still love the military. I love our soldiers and I want to protect them.
0:47.0	I feel like they're not protected right now, and especially at four hoods, something's going on.
0:56.0	We longed Dakota to the military, you know, it was an opportunity for him to grow up and become a man, you know,
1:03.0	to mature, they expected him back. We still knew that he could possibly die and, you know, a skirmish overseas.
1:11.0	But we never expected that he would come up missing and then we would be treated so poorly and lend information about his death
1:17.0	would be hidden from us.
1:26.0	On October 10, 2016, 19 year old Army Private, Dakota Lee Stump, disappeared from the Fort Hood Army base
1:34.0	where he was stationed in Texas. Not much was done by military officials to find Dakota because they considered him a wall.
1:41.0	They believed that he'd left on his own and returned home to Indiana.
1:45.0	When they did ping his phone, Army officials gave Dakota's family the ping locations in Indiana,
1:51.0	which sent them on a wild goose chase trying to find him. Later, the Army would change their stance and say that Dakota had been on base all along.
2:00.0	There are many mysterious circumstances surrounding Dakota's disappearance, and his family and friends are wondering what really happened to him and who they can trust.
2:09.0	The ever evolving story that Army officials have told just doesn't quite add up.
2:14.0	Is this a case of incompetence or something else entirely?
2:18.0	I'm Marissa, and this is episode 104 of The Vanished, the story of Dakota Stump's disappearance.
2:49.0	Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.
3:02.0	In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walton.
3:13.0	And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.
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