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Episode 370: Donald Raye Atkins II: Trials and Tribulations, Pt. 2

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Donnie Raye Atkins II, Donnie to those loved him most, was a 35 year old from West Monroe, LA. He had recently gotten out of prison but seemed to finally be on the right track. In the late morning of September 2, 2018, Donnie allegedly got dressed in nice clothes and walked out of a friend's home where Donnie had stayed the night before. He was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missingdonnieatkins/ Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/donald-raye-atkins-ii NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/60168?nav Article: https://www.thenewsstar.com/story/news/2020/07/29/warrant-gives-details-west-monroe-murder-missing-person-case/5539004002/ If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Donnie Atkins, please contact the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office at (318) 329-1200. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, 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: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/

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0:00.0

This is part two of the Donnie Atkins episode, and please remember to support unfound at Patreon,

0:08.4

PayPal, or YouTube. Donald Ray Atkins II, Donnie to those who loved him most, was a 35-year-old

0:18.8

from West Monroe, Louisiana. He had recently gotten out of prison,

0:24.3

but seemed to finally be on the right track. In the late morning of September 2nd, 2018,

0:31.6

Donnie allegedly got dressed in nice clothes and walked out of a friend's home where Donnie had stayed the night before.

0:40.9

He was never seen again.

0:46.0

I'm at Denzel, and this is unfound.

1:08.0

But one thing that was not there was his phone, correct?

1:10.0

All right. Anything else that you can tell, as best as you can tell, that is missing?

1:15.5

Did you tell me something about maybe some shoes that are missing?

1:19.3

Does anybody have any idea if he really did walk off, what shoes he would have been wearing?

1:27.4

The shoes, so he... I brought my brother clothes.

1:33.3

So when I, he had two pairs of tennis shoes, his work boots, and there was a brown pair

1:43.3

of like dress shoes. So one of the tennis shoes we did not one set of the

1:50.0

there they were two pairs of Nike tennis shoes one they did not get they were not at Rob so I don't know

1:57.2

that means Donnie was wearing them or I don't know.

2:03.5

All right. Maybe he could have left them at Christie's. I guess we have a lot of different

2:07.5

possibilities there, right? Right. Okay. Given that Rob's stories that Donnie walked off

2:14.8

was Rob able to help you or anybody else describe the shoes

2:21.2

that Donnie was wearing?

2:25.3

No, I didn't.

2:27.7

The one encounter that I had with Rob, I didn't even think it never even crossed my mind to ask

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