Donald Erwin: Reversal Of Fortune

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Donald Lee Erwin was a 59 year old from Camdenton, MO, He was a Navy man and loved to tinker with electronics and machines. On December 29, 2013 he got up early as he usually did and headed down to the local store to pick up some cigarettes. He was never seen again. Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/JusticeforDonnieErwinMissingPerson/ NAMUS: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/23273/0/ Missing Veterans: http://www.missingveterans.com/2013/donald-lee-erwin/ Websleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?230242-MO-Donald-Erwin-59-Camden-29-Dec-2013&highlight=Donald+erwin If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Donald Erwin, please contact the Camden County at (573) 346-2243 Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. --thank you to the most recent contributors: Kee and Barb. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volume 1 and 2 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, and other websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Lee Erwin was a 59 year old from Camdenton, Missouri.
0:04.0	He was a Navy man and loved to tinker with electronics and machines.
0:08.0	On December 29th, 2013, he got up early as he usually did and headed down to the local store to pick up some cigarettes.
0:16.0	He was never seen again.
0:20.0	I'm Ed Denzel and this is unfound. I'm going to do.
0:33.0	So, If missing persons cases tell us anything, life can change very quickly and without warning and not to be a cynic but usually for the worse.
1:08.0	I mean we never suddenly get a new car in the driveway or a new house out of nowhere and that job promotion that we never
1:16.0	thought would get. On the other hand, car crashes, we get into them very unexpectedly.
1:24.0	Hospels will burn down that we're standing tall just hours before.
1:28.0	And our jobs, they're more likely to get unexpectedly downsized than anything else.
1:35.3	Reversal of fortune, at least from my perception, usually only spins in one direction.
1:46.2	I bring this up because this is what happened to Donald Irwin. He had a very quick change in the life he and his family were living and it
1:51.5	all started due to a bad hip that got replaced and got replaced
1:56.6	again then he lost his job because he couldn't walk then he lost his leg,
2:03.0	then his house.
2:05.0	Then ultimately he lost contact with the rest of his family
2:08.0	due to his disappearance.
2:10.0	Well today, we're going to try to stop what has happened in the Irwin family over the last 10 years.
2:17.0	We're going to try to get that reversal of fortune to spin in the other direction.
2:24.7	And now a summary of the case.
2:27.7	Donut Erwin got married to his high school sweetheart in the mid 1970s after getting
2:31.8	out of the Navy. From there he became a salesman and instructor for Mitsubishi,
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