Episode 366: Joel Akridge: The Dark Time

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Joel Akridge was a 53 year old from Columbus, GA. He had a learning disability and loved Hulk Hogan. On March 28, 2015, a Saturday, Joel went for his daily walk from which he normally returned a few hours later. Due to a unique set of circumstances, his family didn't notice Joel was not at home until 29 hours later. He was never seen again. Charley Project https://charleyproject.org/case/joel-akridge NAMUS https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/28496?nav Article https://www.wtvm.com/2022/03/28/search-continues-columbus-man-missing-7-years/ Map Analysis: https://youtu.be/JKFyMUiiAnw If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Joel Akridge, please contact the Columbus Police Department at (706) 653-3205. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: [email protected] --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Please join me on Monday nights at 9 p.m. Eastern on YouTube and Facebook for unfound
0:07.3	alive.
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0:15.7	now.
0:16.7	Thanks.
0:19.2	Joe Ackridge was a 53-year-old from Columbus, Georgia.
0:23.2	He had a learning disability and loved Hulk Hogan.
0:27.7	In March 28th, 2015, a Saturday, Joe went for his daily walk, from which he normally
0:34.2	returned a few hours later.
0:37.1	Due to a unique set of circumstances, his family didn't notice Joe was not home until
0:43.2	29 hours later.
0:46.6	He was never seen again.
0:51.9	I'm Ed Duncel, and this is unfound.
1:12.2	With every disappearance that unfound covers, we are reminded of the emotional and mental
1:17.6	toll all the guests and the rest of their families have endured over the past five,
1:24.2	ten, thirty, fifty years.
1:27.5	What maybe isn't as obvious is the physical and sociological toll that many of these people
1:33.6	have experienced as well.
1:36.7	Disappearance has cast a long shadow over everything in these people's lives.
1:42.3	It's like a night that has no day.
1:46.4	Although I have not done a study yet, I have to believe there is a causation and correlation
1:52.6	between disappearances and those families' divorces, heart attacks, early deaths, cancer,
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