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The Vanished Podcast

Delano Wilson

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

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

4.515K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On August 27, 2014, six-week old Delano Wilson vanished from Indianapolis, Indiana. His father called 911 and told a story of how he was robbed at gun-point and the perpetrators took off with Delano. Extensive searches were conducted but no trace of Delano has ever been found. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:17.0

We have to recognize, folks, that the victim cannot speak for itself. The child cannot speak for themselves and too often I'm not sure how to take it for granted.

0:26.0

We have to remember that there are most precious resource. This is one that touched all our hearts and I am beating.

0:32.0

We've spent no resources. We put our mobile command posts in the field. You even saw our young recruit classes out there looking for evidence.

0:40.0

You saw our clergy marching marching for justice. When you made it very clear, this would not be up or read our screen.

0:45.0

So if you come here today to say that justice will be served, we say that justice will be served for this child.

0:51.0

We'll take the prosecutor again for the efforts, but the attorney continues. We have other children out there who will be in a soda in our community.

0:58.0

And we have the police department stand with the community and the prosecutors office will bring those in justice as well. Thank you.

1:09.0

Hello and welcome to episode 39 of The Vanished. I've gotten some requests to do an old-style episode.

1:17.0

So I decided that it would be a good time for it since we have had so many very emotional stories in a row.

1:23.0

Tonight I'll be covering the disappearance of six-week-old Delano Wilson from Indianapolis, Indiana.

1:36.0

I made a map for this episode which will be very helpful to look at while you're listening. You can find it at thevanishedpodcast.com.

1:43.0

Tanisha Perkins gave birth to Delano on July 15, 2014.

1:48.0

Leading up to Delano's disappearance, he was living with his parents Tanisha and Willie, his maternal grandmother Trina, and Tanisha's brother Romell.

1:58.0

At 12.02pm on August 27, 2014, the following call was made to 911 by Delano's father, Willie Wilson.

2:08.0

911 with the location of your emergency.

2:13.0

Yes, I'm on a hardy street and by chase, I just got a ride and someone took my daughter. I mean, my son.

2:24.0

Harding and where?

2:26.0

In Oliver.

2:28.0

Oliver?

2:29.0

Yes.

2:32.0

I'm laying in the middle of the street. Off Oliver, it's a size that's Henry.

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