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Unfound's first episode debuted on the first Friday of September 2016. Yes, seven years ago today.

During that time, this podcast has covered 303 disappearances. To recognize this anniversary, you get to hear the first interview I ever conducted.

Then after, I will reflect on some of the big moments in Unfound's history.

I'm at Dunsel, and this is Unfound.

On the phone now, I have Mrs. Mary Lau, the mother of Suzanne. Welcome to the show, Mary.

Thank you. Let's start with you just talking a little bit about Suzanne, what was going on in her life at the time.

Maybe a little bit about her upbringing, her education, her interests.

Well, Susie was born in April of 1978. Right from the beginning, we kind of knew she had a lot of intelligence.

My husband always said he could see that in her. And as she grew up, by the time she was about nine years old, she was writing poetry.

From writing poetry to wanting to, you know, she started to hear about computers.

And I think our first computer was a Tech with Instrument computer. And she really was fascinated with those.

And she, you know, really got into the computer area and, you know, eventually, you know, would take computers apart and rebuild them.

And how old would she have been at this time, a teenager?

Yeah, she was a young teenager, maybe 13, 14 years old. She was the only kid in school who actually knew anything about computers.

At the time in school, they were just getting one into the library. It's a fairly big school district, but, you know, the libraries in the different schools had one computer.

And if it would break down, nobody knew anything about computers, and they would call Susie to come and see if she could fix it, which she usually could.

And, you know, she really, she had people around her all the time just fascinated by the fact that she typed so fast, and she could, you know, bring up all sorts of information on the computer.

Where did you think that she got this from?

I have absolutely no idea.

It just seemed to come. And like I said, she was, you know, she was into writing poetry.

So she was using a typewriter and, you know, and then, of course, when a computer came around, she could, you know, type all that information out on the computer and, you know, save all her poetry that way.

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