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I Was Never There

Episode 1: What the Hell Happened to Marsha "Mudd" Ferber?

I Was Never There

Acast Creative Studios

True Crime, Drugs, Investigate, Crime, 80s, Mudd Farm, Bars, Marijuana, Society & Culture, Disappearance, West Virginia, Leisure, 70s, Counterculture, Marsha Ferber, Hippies, Commune

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

I Was Never There launches with the range of theories swirling around the disappearance of Marsha “Mudd” Ferber. We meet our hosts, Jamie and Karen Zelermyer and learn who they are in relation to Marsha's story, and why they've decided to try to find out what really happened to her now.

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I Was Never There is a Wonder Media Network production. It's hosted by Jamie Zelermyer and Karen Zelermyer. It's produced by Allie Wollner, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, and Liz Smith. It's edited by Jenny Kaplan and Liz Smith. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan, Jamie Zelermyer and Karen Zelermyer. Production assistance by Alesandra Tejeda. Our music supervisor is Sarah Tembeckjian. The theme music is "Take Me Home, Country Roads" performed by Brandi Carlile, courtesy of Elektra Records / A Low Country Sound, written by John Denver, Taffy Nivert, William Thomas Danoff.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're watching WBOI TV Clarksburg Fairmont.

0:08.0

This is News 12 at 11.

0:15.0

Marcia was last seen April 25th. All that was missing was her backpack. Her car was left at a parking

0:22.6

meter, belongings left in an apartment above the bar. The popular theory now among her friends

0:28.6

is that 47-year-old Marcia Ferber decided to leave her life behind. At least they hope.

0:34.6

Whatever happened to Marcia, I just can't fathom was in the context of a plan.

0:40.3

I can only guess that she's okay somewhere.

0:45.7

I hope.

0:51.4

It's been 34 years.

0:54.8

Nothing.

0:55.8

No body, no witnesses, no further clues.

0:59.6

What happened to Marcia is still a cold case, open for investigation.

1:04.8

And all of us who have loved her have lived our lives without her, without closure.

1:13.7

But this story is much bigger than one day in 1988. I always thought I knew Marcia, because in many ways our stories were the same.

1:22.4

But it turns out, I was wrong. I'm Jamie Zollermeyer, and that's my mom, Karen.

1:30.6

This is I Was Never There, Episode 1.

1:36.2

I hear the voice in the morning how she calls me,

1:42.4

Frady You reminds me of my home far away

1:49.0

Driving down the road

1:51.0

I get a feeling like I should have been home yesterday

1:57.0

Yesterday yesterday country roads

2:05.6

take me home

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