Episode 281: Belinda Gay Blaniar: One Rough Town

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Ed Dentzel

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Belinda Gay Blaniar was a 33 year old from Arnold, PA. She had several brothers and sisters but had lived a tough life. In the early morning of June 21, 1996, Belinda walked out of her apartment to buy beer down the street. Witnesses saw her at a local bar then Belinda left. She was never seen again.Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/whereisbelindablaniarWebsite:https://missingbelindablaniar.wordpress.comCharley Project:https://charleyproject.org/case/belinda-gay-blaniarNAMUS:https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/10665?navIf you have any information concerning the disappearance of Belinda Blaniar, please contact the Arnold Police Department at (724) 339-9663.Unfound supports accounts on Pandora, Audible, Podomatic, iTunes, Spotify, iHeart, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Deezer, and YouTube.--speaking of YouTube, on Wednesday nights at 9pm ET, please join us for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions.--Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfounpodcast.--You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast--I also need to give a shout out to all the people who have monetarily contributed usingSuperChat during the Live Show on Wednesday nights.--thank you for watching and thank you for donating.--the email address: [email protected]:--The books at Amazon.com in both ebook and print form.--do not forget the reviews.--shirts at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com--or you can track down my assistant Heather in the Facebook Group.--playing cards at makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast--the website: the unfoundpodcast.com--And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Belinda Gay Blainer was a 33-year-old from Arnold, Pennsylvania.
0:05.3	She had several brothers and sisters, but had lived a tough life.
0:11.0	In the early morning of June 21, 1996, Belinda walked out of her apartment to buy beer
0:17.7	down the street.
0:19.6	Witnesses saw her at a local bar, then Belinda left.
0:24.2	She was never seen again.
0:29.2	I'm a dancer, and this is unfound.
0:59.2	Going back to my earliest memories of growing up in Leachburg, Pennsylvania, I can remember
1:10.5	in the late 70s my dad, my grandfather on my mother's side, my uncle, and others, talk
1:18.2	about this place that wasn't far away, only like 20 minutes by car.
1:24.2	They spoke of it in scary terms.
1:26.8	That is where the mob lives.
1:29.0	That often people went there and never came back.
1:33.2	That it was best that when I became an adult, to just avoid it.
1:38.5	Then when the 1980s rolled around, and I could drive, the reputation of this place was
1:44.8	still bad, but it had changed.
1:48.6	The mob had moved out, but the drug dealers and crime had moved in.
1:55.0	This was exacerbated by the steel mills in the area going under, causing desperation
2:01.1	and decay.
2:03.4	And I have to be honest, living in western Pennsylvania until 1998, I bet I only visited
2:11.4	that little city a couple of times, because it's reputation stuck with me.
2:17.5	Well today, with the disappearance of Belinda Blainer, we're going to that place, Arnold
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