Episode 503: Martha Lavonne "Marty" Evans: The Usual Suspects

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Martha Lavonne Evans, Marty to those who loved her most, was a 32 year old from Knappa, Oregon. She had two children and loved tattoos. On the night of Feb. 10, 1990, after a wedding reception in Knappa, her family believed Marty was headed to meet friends for drinks. Marty never arrived. She was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FindingMartyBenthinEvans Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/martha-lavonne-evans NAMUS: https://charleyproject.org/case/martha-lavonne-evans Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/2025/08/05/martha-marty-evans/ Map Info: https://youtu.be/KvJMHVhYx5M If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Marty Evans, please contact the Oregon State Police at (503) 861-0781. 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/ 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. #TrueCrime #MissingPersons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Martha Levan Evans, Mardi to those who loved her most, was a 33-year-old from Napa, Oregon.
0:08.5	She had two children and loved tattoos.
0:13.0	On the night of February 10, 1990, after a wedding reception in Napa, her family believed Marty was headed to meet friends for drinks.
0:25.4	Marty never arrived.
0:27.4	She was never seen again.
0:32.9	I'm Ed Dunsell, and this is unfound.
1:01.1	Disappearances may be vastly different from case to case, but one thing we are always trying to do is find the cause. Why did it happen? And if you've been listening to
1:07.9	unfound long enough, you know the cause can't take many forms.
1:14.5	Sometimes, maybe even often, humans are to blame.
1:20.1	Carlos Rodriguez for Zoe Campos.
1:23.3	Dennis Bowman for Andrea Bowman.
1:26.5	Tyler North's ex-wife and her boyfriend for Tyler North.
1:32.3	Yet drugs are also a common cause.
1:35.7	Robbie Hurt.
1:37.0	Jay Lushball.
1:38.5	Shanna Boydow.
1:40.4	Mental health.
1:42.1	Devin Bond.
1:43.6	Donald Irwin,
1:45.6	Ashley Linden, thankfully she was alive.
1:49.7	But we also might blame a disappearance on a badly designed road,
1:54.8	Esther Westenbarger, or even on the weather, Chance Engelbert.
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