Episode 474: ON HIATUS REPLAY -- Donnie Smatlak

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Donald David Smatlak was a 25 year old from North Versailles, PA. On Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006 he left his apartment to visit a friend in the neighboring town of Delmont. He never reached his destination and was never seen again. Charley Project Page: http://charleyproject.org/case/donald-david-smatlak Pittsburgh Post Gazette article: http://www.post-gazette.com/local/east/2006/02/10/Missing-North-Versailles-man-sought/stories/200602100208 If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Donnie Smatlak, please contact the North Versailles Police Department at (412) 823-1111 or (412) 473-3000. Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ AUDIENCE OUTREACH #StayHome #WithMe #AloneTogether Join in, subscribe and become part of the most professional, accurate and comprehensive missing persons program in the world! 1) Join the Unfound Facebook Page: http://bit.ly/unfoundfb 2) Join the Unfound Facebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/gr...... 3) Check out the Unfound books by Ed Dentzel on Amazon: http://bit.ly/unfoundpodcast 4) New podcast episodes every Fri at 2pm ET on Podomatic, iTunes and Stitcher 5) YouTube Live Show every Wed at 9pm ET on the Unfound Podcast Channel / YouTube 6) Unfound Think Tank live where we discuss each week's case with Ed every Sun 7 pm ET on the Unfound Podcast Channel / YouTube. Available for premium Patreon subscribers 7) Read up on Ed's blog about each case by subscribing to Patreon --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. Unfound supports accounts on Podomatic, iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. And at Paypal: [email protected] --that is also the email address. Please contact about missing person cases, press inquiries and speaking engagements. - MERCH --The books at Amazon.com in both ebook and print form. --don't forget the reviews. --shirts at myshopify.com/unfound-podcast. --cards at makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you. Images subject to fair use allowance. Images also acquired from CharleyProject.org, directly from the clients of Unfound Podcast or created by Unfound. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.2	north for sales pennsylvania on saturday january 28 2006, he left his apartment to visit a friend in the neighboring
0:41.8	town of Delmont.
0:43.4	He never reached his destination and was never seen again.
0:48.2	I'm Ed Denssel, and this is unfound.
0:52.7	Music And this is unfound. passing judgment it's part of our human nature isn't it i know it's a goal of the world to become a non-judgmental society, but it's
1:30.7	going to be hard to do when everybody, all seven billion of us, do it so easily. We meet
1:37.9	somebody, we automatically decide, do we like this person? Do we not like this person? We go to see a movie.
1:45.6	We either like it or we hate it.
1:47.4	Or maybe we're sometimes in between.
1:49.8	Music, sports, a new job, your next door neighbor, a hobby.
1:58.5	Just about anything that you do in your life, your brain automatically is trying to decide,
2:04.9	is that something good that I did? Is it something bad that I did? Can I do better next time?
2:13.2	And of course, we've seen a lot of that recently because this year was an election year.
2:18.5	We just had an election.
2:20.4	And some people judged the results as being pretty good.
2:25.0	And some people judged the results as being pretty bad.
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