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The dead tasty, the last time I talked to him about a month ago, he said,

we still don't know any more than we did the day she disappeared. We still believe that somebody out there knows something and it's just not come forward.

Somebody would have seen something. Somebody would have seen her, spotted her, somewhere. She didn't disappear into thin air.

I just feel like in that location, I've never driven to their property and driven back and not passed a car. Now, it's not heavily traveled, but it is traveled.

They don't really know the whole truth, they just talk. They talk about really knowing the truth and don't know me. They didn't really see what all I went through and put up with.

But why would I go through all that and then just kill her up there? I suffered all through the whole matter. They just hear rumors and they think about who I used to be.

On January 21, 2020, 40-year-old Dorothy Yates McAathrin disappeared from her home in Vivian, Louisiana.

According to Dorothy's husband, Kevin, he saw her that day at their home and then he left to go look at a job. When he returned a couple of hours later, he couldn't find Dorothy.

However, he found a strange scene inside the home. There was a television remote control partially melted on the wood stove. Upon further inspection, he noticed plastic and other materials burning inside the stove.

There were clothes scattered around the house. It looked as though perhaps someone had left in a hurry. More than a year later, Dorothy's family feels like they are no closer to finding out what happened and are hoping that someone will come forward with a new lead.

Amarissa and from Wondery, this is Episode 304 of The Vanished. Dorothy Yates McAathrin's story.

I'm Candace Dillon, 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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When Dorothy disappeared more than 19 months ago, no one was quite sure what to make the scene left behind inside her home. They weren't sure if Dorothy had left on her own and would return, or if something more sinister had occurred inside the house that day.

But as the days were on with no word from Dorothy, her loved ones' concerns continued to grow. But just as with every case that we cover on the show, there's more to Dorothy's story than what occurred on that fateful day back in January of 2020, and the few clues that she left behind.

To help us understand what may have happened to Dorothy, we have to go back and take a look at her life. Who was Dorothy Yates McAathrin? We spoke to Dorothy's mom Martha, who told us about her daughter's childhood.

She was adopted as was her brother, and we got her when she was just about five days old. So she was beautiful child, really good. She was real good thing. She was definitely a mama's girl.

She just played her kid growing up, lots of friends. She attended a magnet school, and I went back to work about the time she was going into second grade at a different school. And she wanted to go to school with me.

And so the next year in third grade, she transferred to my school and finished that elementary school there. She went on to a magnet middle school and then chose to go to a neighborhood high school.

She was very active and soccer, and she played some softball. She ended up playing soccer year round all the way through high school.

You know, she's junior varsity cheerleader and she was give lots of different things at school, had lots of good friends.

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