Episode 235: The Disappearances of Alisha Smiley and Elyssa Vasquez

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On June 6th, 1985, 3-year-old Alisha Smiley went missing. She had been sitting on a bench outside the Omni International Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. Alisha is a black female with brown eyes and dark brown or black hair (which was braided and tied with lilac-colored ribbons). At the time of her disappearance, Alisha stood 3 feet tall and weighed about 30 pounds. She had her ears pierced and a little gap between her lower front teeth. Alisha was last seen wearing a red and white checkered sundress, white sandals with silver buttons, and gold earrings. If you have any information concerning Alisha Smiley’s case, please contact: The Atlanta Police Department at 404-853-3434 or 1-800-843-5678 the lost.

Elyssa Vasquez was 12 years old, when she disappeared after starting a new school in Clarkston, Georgia, on January 28, 2003. For years after Elyssa’s disappearance, she was classified by police as a runaway but now her case has been reclassified to an endangered missing child. At the time of her disappearance Elyssa was 12 years old, 5'1 and 117 pounds. She has brown hair, hazel eyes and is bi-racial (Latina and Black). She has one scar below her chin where she had four stitches and another round scar on her right shoulder. Elyssa also has pierced ears. She was last seen wearing a blue ski jacket with a white stripe down the center, dark blue jeans and white sneakers. Elyssa would also answer to her nicknames Lee Lee or Lisa. Today Elyssa would be 33 years old. If you have any information about Elyssa’s whereabouts you are urged to call the Dekalb County Police Department at 404-294-2519 f you have any information about Elyssa Vasquez or her disappearance, please contact NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) or the DeKalb County Police Department at 1-404-294-2519 or their Special Victims Unit at 770-724-7710.

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0:00.0	Well, what's up you guys? I'm Andrea and I'm Haley and you're listening to Inhuman a True Crime Podcast.
0:07.3	In 2020, 268,884 girls and women were reported missing in the United States, according to the National Crime Information
0:37.3	Center. Nearly 40% of those reported missing were people of color. In the state of Georgia, there's currently
0:47.4	a total of 250 missing persons and Atlanta is known as being one of the biggest hubs of sex trafficking
0:57.8	in the entire country. Oh, that's so terrifying. I know. Despondently, black girls and women are
1:05.8	reported missing at an unacceptably disproportionate rate each year. In light of the recent hoax by
1:16.6	I was just going to say that. Oh, I know. I wanted to shine a spotlight on two cases of missing
1:22.6	black girls whose cases did not get the media attention that Carly's case got, but they deserve
1:28.9	to have their stories shared in the exact same way. Yeah. I also want to remind everyone listening
1:36.0	that Carly's case should not deter you from taking the next report of a missing person of color
1:41.6	seriously. Both of these girls are considered missing and endangered and I just want to say this
1:49.0	before I get started because I know people are probably going to be disappointed with the lack of
1:54.2	information, but both of these cases have literally one news article about them. And initially,
2:03.4	I was only going to share one of the stories, but because I could not find any information on
2:09.2	this girl's disappearance, I thought, you know what, I'm going to share another case from the same
2:14.6	area of another missing black girl. And you know, even if it is the minimal amount of information,
2:22.5	both of these girls are still missing and they still deserve to have their stories shared. And
2:28.0	they're both of their cases are open and cold. And if we can ignite that interest and people
2:36.8	start getting interested and putting pressure on the, you know, investigators and the police
2:42.6	departments that are investigating these cases, if that's all I accomplished by sharing this,
2:48.3	then that is good enough for me. So yeah. Yeah, and I've never heard of either you told me the
2:55.3	names of these and I've never heard of either of them, which unfortunately doesn't surprise me,
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