David Waggoner

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

🗓️ 9 July 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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David Waggoner was just 23 years old when he disappeared from Pasadena, Texas. I spoke with his sister, Diana, who has never given up the search for her brother. Some of the suspects include Sheriff "Humpy" Parker and the notorious serial killer, Dean Corll aka "The Candy Man." This episode also features Phil from History Personified. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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.
0:13.7	There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about him and say a prayer and I keep asking God, please
0:20.8	somehow please let me have answers about David and
0:24.8	and then I tell myself whether there must be some reason why I haven't gotten those answers yet.
0:30.7	So and I know I'm not alone. I'm sure there's a lot of people that say the same thing and go through
0:36.5	the same things that I'm going through but I've told my kids and I have I'm never going to give up as
0:42.7	long as I'm alive. I'm never going to give up trying to find out what happened to my brother.
0:48.6	Hello and welcome to the vanished. Tonight I will be discussing the disappearance of 23 year old David Wagoner.
1:00.7	I had the pleasure of speaking to David sister Diana for this episode. She has never given up
1:05.7	the search to find her brother. After speaking with her I was truly inspired by her dedication.
1:12.9	We do not have an exact day or time for when David disappeared because he was living alone in
1:18.0	an apartment in Pasadena, Texas at the time. What we do know is that he last spoke to his family on
1:24.1	October 9th 1971. My mother and dad lived in Pasadena when he disappeared. He had only been out of
1:33.9	the Marine Corps maybe a year if that long and he worked at a company but he quit his job. It was
1:41.4	very boring for David and he quit his job but when when my mom she hadn't heard from him for a
1:48.3	couple weeks so she went over to his apartment. His car was parked at the apartment. We went into
1:56.0	the apartment. It was just like he was coming back. There was there was change on the table money.
2:03.2	There was a box of open shells. Now when we knew he had a gun and he used to go target practicing.
2:09.3	The gun was gone. The only thing we could tell that was gone was that and the clothes on his back.
2:17.4	And about two weeks after she reported him missing the Pasadena Police Department.
2:24.8	Somehow and I don't know because I was living in Corpus Christi at the time but somehow
2:31.5	they got in touch with my mother and were told that David's motorcycle was found off of Highway 59
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