Episode 518: Donald "DJ" Hamaker: Holding Water

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Donald Hamaker, DJ to those who knew him best, was a 43 year old from Girardville, PA. He was a father who liked taking care of his mother. In the early morning of May 28, 2024, DJ and another man got a ride to a gravel pit to fish. DJ allegedly drowned in the water. He was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61568956539285 Video: https://youtu.be/CQCdIWAKjtw Charley Project: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/133523?nav Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/donald-dj-hamaker-holding-water/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of DJ Hamaker, please contact the Pennsylvania State Police at (570) 874-5300. 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	Donald Hamaker DJed to those who knew him best,
1:08.3	was a 43-year-old from Girardville, Pennsylvania.
1:11.9	He was a father who liked taking care of his mother.
1:15.8	In the early morning of May 28, 2024,
1:21.0	DJ and another man got a ride to a gravel pit to fish.
1:25.6	DJ allegedly drowned in the water.
1:30.4	He was never seen again.
1:57.7	I'm Ed Denzel, and this is unfound. Over the past nine years, we've been asked to analyze disappearances that seemingly occurred in rivers,
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