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Episode 511: Corinna Paige Slusser: Trafficked

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

Corinna Paige Slusser was an 18 year old from Bloomsburg, PA. She was a cheerleader who loved the beach. On September 20, 2017, Corinna was at a hotel in Queens, New York City, exchanging messages with a man who was picking her up. She was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missingcorinnaslusser Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/corinna-paige-slusser NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/50450?nav Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/corinna-paige-slusser-trafficked/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Corinna Slusser, please contact the NYPD Detective Bureau Child Exploitation/ Human Trafficking Task Force at (212) 384-1000.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Karina Page Slusser was an 18-year-old from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

0:07.2

She was a cheerleader who loved the beach.

0:11.0

On September 20th, 2017, Karina was at a hotel in Queens, New York City,

0:18.1

exchanging messages with a man who was picking her up.

0:23.2

She was never seen again.

0:28.3

I'm Ed Denzel, and this is unfound.

0:33.3

Music Back when I was a novel writer, I learned a valuable lesson.

0:51.6

What was it?

0:53.5

Cliches suck. They show your readers that you're really not

0:58.1

using all your brain power to write the book that all of those people just purchased.

1:04.3

And your readers will take note. And I think I've brought that kind of thinking over to the

1:10.8

disappearance world with what

1:13.0

you've heard over the past nine years. I've questioned the dogma, we might call them cliches,

1:21.0

on the quality of dogs, the ability of private investigators to solve cases, the belief that once searches are done,

1:30.4

they don't need to be done again. And I can cite several other examples.

1:38.2

Well, with the disappearance of Corinna Slusser, I get to take on another topic that has become a cliche.

1:46.0

We all get to hear what it truly means to be trafficked.

1:52.4

And now a summary of the case.

1:55.7

Karina Slusser was raised in the eastern hills of Pennsylvania.

1:59.8

She had a small town upbringing where everyone

2:02.6

knew each other. She was a high school cheerleader and might have fit right in with the

2:07.8

actresses in the movie Bring It On. However, something changed in late 2015 and into 2016.

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