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I remember being eight years old and hearing something outside my window and I look outside my window and it was him dressing all around a brown jacket, brown pants, running away from our home.

Upon further investigation going underneath there and looking, my dad has found the blankets, gear cam, this man was staying underneath of our home in the crawl space.

Talk about free people and I can still vividly picture it, seeing him running away like I guess he had just hung some underneath there or maybe just peeking the windows.

The police were notified and nothing came of that. Of course they tell us to put a trust pass in, order out on him but nothing.

Nothing to my knowledge has ever been done to this man, the person that they had right there in front of them that had evidence on my opinion stacked up against them, they never pursued him. And I just don't know why.

On the evening of February 24th 1995, 32-year-old Donna Gibson was at home in Louisa, Virginia with her husband and four young children.

Donna was sick that evening with a respiratory infection and chose to sleep on the couch. In the middle of the night her children thought they saw Donna asleep and went quickly back to bed. But just several hours later she had vanished.

Though there was no evidence that Donna had been engaged in a fight or struggle and no sign that anyone had broken into the home.

Donna didn't vanish without a trace and all signs have led her family to one person in the search for her more than 26 years later.

I'm Marissa and from Wondery this is episode 284 of The Vanished. Donna Gibson's story.

I'm Candace DeLong host of the podcast Killer Psychie and in our newest season we dissect the thoughts and behaviors of the most violent figures in history.

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Friday, February 24th, 1995 was supposed to be a quiet evening in the Gibson home. Donna had been sick and was sleeping on the couch so the sounds of her coughing didn't wake up her husband or children.

Donna's daughter Trisha originally reached out to us several months ago and asked us to cover her mom's story.

We spoke to Trisha as well as her sisters and we asked Trisha to walk us through what she remembers about that dreadful night more than 25 years ago.

I was only eight years old when she disappeared the night before which was the 24th. My sister and I, Marissa, we were supposed to clean our room and we ended up taking everything and throwing it on the bed and my mom was upset with us and she said,

well, you're not going to sleep until you clean that room. Well, my dad overstepped her and said, nope, they're going to sleep with me tonight.

So we slept with my dad, me and my sister did and my mom had already had plans to sleep on the couch in the living room because she had learned Jyvis.

She was in the living room asleep. We were only told opposite end of the house asleep. It's my dad in the bed. And of course Miranda was in there in her crib and then my brother was in his room, which was closer to the living room.

Anyways, I was the only one, suppose we were woke up before everybody else did the next.

I remember for some reason, I think it was around 6, 6, 30 in the morning and I peaked in the living room to see if she was awake because I was sneaking something during.

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