Episode 17 - Cloudia Leslie Wells

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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This episode of Thin Air features two very similar stories of women, both mothers, whose mental illness and addiction led them to live a life on the streets. For the past two decades, Robin Burton has been searching for her mother, Cloudia Leslie Wells, who she believes to be homeless and living on the streets in California. Robin has dedicated her life to finding her mother and helping others in similar situations.

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0:00.0	Thin Air is an independently produced podcast by Daniel Calderon and Jordan Sims.
0:09.0	Each episode focuses on an unsolved missing person's case from around the world.
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0:45.0	When Jordan and I started this podcast a little over a year ago, we didn't imagine our episodes taking on a particular theme or
0:55.8	attempting to accomplish a specific objective. However, as we've released now 16 episodes,
1:02.0	we've come to recognize a common element among many of the cases we've reported on.
1:07.0	Inevitably, the longer a case remains unsolved, the less attention it receives from authorities. This makes sense to me.
1:14.8	Trails go cold, evidence gets destroyed, people's versions of events get fogier, and
1:20.6	more muddled. However, it seems as if there is a particular group of
1:25.2	marginalized people whose cases go cold from the beginning, but of whom are all
1:30.0	around us. In 2015, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
1:35.6	announced that on a national scale homelessness was down by 2%, but in larger
1:41.4	cities like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, there were dramatic
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