Darwin Vest (King of Hearts, Idaho)

The Deck

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True Crime

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🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On a quiet summer night in 1999, a 48-year-old man disappeared after what appeared to be a normal night out with friends in the sleepy town of Idaho Falls, Idaho. Darwin Vest, known to many as “spiderman” thanks to his unparalleled knowledge of spiders, left a local bar around 1 a.m. on June 3, 1999 — then seemingly vanished into thin air. For more than two decades, his case has haunted the residents of Idaho Falls as theories surrounding his case range from a tragic fall into the nearby river to something far more sinister.

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0:00.0	Our card this week is Darwin Vest, the King of Hearts from Idaho.
0:08.8	On a summer night in 1999, Darwin, a quirky intellectual who was obsessed with studying
0:14.4	spiders, decided to go out to the bars with some friends because he had just gotten some
0:18.7	amazing news.
0:20.6	But after his final night cab, Darwin wondered out the side door of a bar and into a dark
0:25.4	alley, triggering a mystery that no one in 23 years has been able to solve.
0:31.9	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.
1:01.9	It was late on Friday, June 4, 1999, and Eric Senif had just gotten back to his house
1:14.2	in Idaho Falls, Idaho when he saw a red light blinking, indicating a new message on
1:19.7	his answering machine.
1:21.5	Eric had been gone all day because he and his wife had went to Salt Lake City, Utah,
1:25.0	to see the phantom of the opera on Broadway.
1:27.5	Instead of staying overnight in the city, they drove the three hours back home to Idaho after
1:32.2	the performance.
1:33.2	Man, Ben, expecting any calls that day so even though it was late, Eric went ahead
1:37.7	and played the message, which was from his friend Darwin's mom Margaret Vest.
1:56.9	Margaret told Eric that her 48-year-old son, Darwin, had not been home in nearly two days
2:01.5	and she was sick with worry.
2:03.6	You see, Darwin still lived at home, so he saw his mother nearly every day.
2:08.2	This whole time she'd been holding out hope that Darwin had gone to Utah with Eric and
2:12.2	had just forgotten to mention it to her.
2:14.2	But Eric told Margaret that he hadn't seen Darwin since Wednesday night when they had
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