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The Vanished Podcast

Donald Dugger

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

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

43-year-old Donald Dugger was last seen in Warroad, Minnesota in the early morning hours of August 11th, 2012. Don was a trucker and had just returned to his place of employment to return the semi he was driving. His plan was to then drive his car back home. Don called his sister and explained that there were people outside of his truck and that he was concerned. She heard Donnie ask “what do you want? I am trying to cooperate.” He then told her that he was going to call 911, which he did. Police responded to the scene but the people Don had seen weren’t there. They left after speaking with Don and later returned to see him loading his personal belongings into his car from the semi. That is the last time anyone saw Donald Dugger. His car was later found abandoned on an ATV trail inside Beltrami Island State Forest.

Over six and a half years later, Donald Dugger is still missing and his case remains unsolved.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Donald Dugger, please contact the Roseau County Sheriff's Office at 218-463-1421.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:22.0

If it was, follow play. Somebody knows something.

0:27.0

But I think that they have always kind of said that the police have always told us they have nothing concrete to point it towards follow play.

0:45.0

I just wish somebody do something. For his dad anyway, his dad 75 and to have an answer.

0:57.0

I'm just considering open until we find something to go on. At this point, we haven't had a ground shirt for the last or the first year of so investigation.

1:10.0

We still got people that live out there and that are on my positive stuff. They are constantly searching for clues that we can possibly come up with.

1:19.0

We can possibly come up with it on. There's nothing that we've fallen so far, but we're not giving up on that for sure.

1:31.0

43-year-old Donald Dugger was last seen in Warroad, Minnesota in the early morning hours of August 11, 2012.

1:40.0

Don was a trucker and had just returned to his place of employment to return the semi he was driving and his plan was to then drive his car back home.

1:49.0

Don called his sister and explained that they were people outside of his truck and that he was concerned.

1:55.0

She heard Don ask, what do you want? I'm trying to cooperate. He then told her that he was about to call 911.

2:03.0

Police responded to the scene, but the people Don had mentioned weren't there.

2:09.0

They left after speaking with Don and later returned to see him loading his belongings from the truck into his car.

2:16.0

This is the last time anyone saw Don Dugger. His car was later found abandoned on an ATV trail inside the Bell Traumy Island State Forest.

2:27.0

Over six and a half years later, Don is still missing and his case remains unsolved.

2:33.0

I'm Marissa and from Wondery this is episode 169 of The Vanished. Donald Dugger's story.

3:04.0

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3:15.0

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3:27.0

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3:35.0

At the time of his disappearance, Donald Dugger was single and living on his own in the Detroit Lakes area of Minnesota.

3:42.0

He was working for a trucking company that was located about three hours away in Warrode, Minnesota, close to the Canadian border.

3:51.0

In his free time, Don was known to be an avid hunter and fisherman. In the weeks leading up to his disappearance, Don was away on the road trucking for about three weeks.

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