David Gipson Smith

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

🗓️ 10 November 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

28-year-old David Gipson Smith left his home in Pilesgrove, New Jersey on August 5th, 2017. He drove to Catonsville, Maryland where he met up with a friend. When plans with that friend didn't quite work out, she introduced him to a second woman who claims to have dropped David off on an undeveloped piece of property in Lisbon, Maryland. She supposedly left David there with no food or water and didn’t return to check on him for days. When David's family failed to hear from him for several days, they began to piece together his last known whereabouts. When they got to the property in Maryland, there was no trace of David.

If you have any information regarding the whereabout of David Gipson Smith, you can call their tip line at 856-381-1357, you can also call the Howard County Police Department at 410-313-STOP or send an email to HCPDCrimetips@Howardcountymd gov. You can follow David's case on Facebook: Missing: David Gipson Smith.

UPDATE 3/23/18- News Release: Body found in woods last month identified as missing person David Gipson Smith.

Howard County police have been notified that the remains of a body found in Allegany County in late February are those of David Gipson Smith, 28, who was reported missing from Howard County in August 2017.

Smith’s remains were discovered Feb. 25 by hikers in Green Ridge State Forest in Flintstone, Md. His cause of death has been ruled undetermined by the state medical examiner. He was identified through dental records. Authorities are unable to confirm his time of death.

Smith disappeared August 6 after coming to Maryland from his home in New Jersey to visit an acquaintance. When he didn’t return home by Aug. 12, his family notified police that he was missing.

Investigators do not have information about the circumstances of Smith’s death. Anyone with information should contact police at 410-313-STOP or [email protected].

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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	It just doesn't make sense. You know, there's death. We desperately need help.
0:24.0	It would be the way that I put it for people who are going to take his missing, serious.
0:36.0	Yeah, there's no question that, you know, there still are some outstanding questions about this situation.
0:45.0	Some of the timeline issues, you know, is we're trying to think our way through that.
0:50.0	You know, where there's still open-ended questions for us.
0:53.0	And I will say this too, that one of the things we've been most grateful for is that we have people who are in law enforcement here in our community who have served at a very high level and understand these investigative procedures.
1:07.0	So they've been kind of surrounding us and kind of coaching us with regards to some of these situations.
1:13.0	And so, yeah, I think frustration, you know, for us. And for them is kind of across the board about how this is being navigated.
1:25.0	28-year-old David Gibson Smith left his home in Pilesgrove, New Jersey on August 5, 2017.
1:33.0	He drove to Caitan'sville, Maryland where he met up with a friend.
1:37.0	Plans with that friend didn't quite work out because she had made other plans for that day, so she introduced him to another friend in the area.
1:45.0	This second woman claims to have dropped David off at an undeveloped piece of property in Lisbon, Maryland that was owned by her uncle.
1:52.0	She supposedly left David there with no food or water and didn't return to check on him for days.
2:00.0	David's family began to worry when they didn't hear from him for several days, which was out of character for him.
2:05.0	They started to piece together his last known whereabouts, but when they got to the property in Maryland, there was no trace of David.
2:12.0	This is a very bizarre case and nothing makes much sense.
2:16.0	What we do know is that David has now been missing for months and his family is desperate for answers.
2:23.0	I'm Marissa and this is episode 99 of The Vanished, the story of David's disappearance.
2:30.0	Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.
2:58.0	In this series of Briden and I talk to among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.
3:08.0	And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.
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