Dennis Martin

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On June 14, 1969, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Spence Field along the Appalachian Trail, six-year-old Dennis Martin vanished during a Father’s Day camping trip — and he has never been found. How does a child disappear in the span of just a few minutes while adults are only yards away? Were critical mistakes made in those first hours? And what do we make of the reported scream… and the sighting of a man carrying something red through the woods? More than fifty years later, Dennis Martin is still missing — and the mountains are still silent. Please also consider supporting Coffee and Cases by joining us over on our Patreon page! Are you up-to-date on all our regular content?! Be a part of the C & C Fam by going to https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases to register! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's something about the wilderness that feels both comforting and unsettling at the same time.
0:04.9	People go to the mountains to escape noise, stress, and the weight of everyday life. Trails promise
0:10.8	quiet reflection. Campsites promise laughter around a fire. Parents bring their children there
0:16.6	believing it's one of the safest places to build memories, far from traffic, strangers, and
0:21.1	danger. But the wilderness operates by its own rules. It doesn't announce when something is about
0:26.2	to go wrong. It doesn't offer witnesses or security cameras. And when something disappears into the
0:31.4	forest, the silence that follows can swallow the truth just as easily as the trees can swallow the
0:37.1	trail.
0:42.3	Because when someone vanishes in a crowded city, investigators follow the evidence.
0:47.3	When someone vanishes in the mountains, sometimes there's no evidence at all.
0:53.4	On June 14, 1969, during what should have been a simple Father's Day camping trip in the Great Smoky Mountains,
0:54.9	a small boy stepped into the woods for what was supposed to be a harmless game with other children.
1:00.2	He was gone in minutes, and his name was Dennis Martin.
1:43.9	Music I'm going to be. I'm going to I'm going to I'm I'm I'm The I'm Welcome to coffee and cases where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold.
1:45.7	My name is Allison Williams.
1:47.6	And my name is Maggie Damron.
1:52.3	We will be telling stories each week in the hopes that someone out there with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement.
1:55.6	So justice and closure can be brought to these families.
1:58.4	With each case, we encourage you to continue in the conversation on our Facebook page,
2:02.8	Coffee in Case's podcast, because, as we all know,
2:06.2	conversation helps to keep the missing person in the public consciousness,
2:09.9	helping keep their memories alive.
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