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Episode 87: Captive | The Tanya Kach Story Part II

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Join us as we discuss part two of a case that has completely polarized the town of Mckeesport, PA. In 1996 a 13 year old girl completely fell through the cracks of a broken system. This young girl’s disappearance goes relatively unnoticed until the body of another girl, who was from the same area and was the same age, was found in the town’s cemetery a few years later. In this episode there will be a lot up for debate. What is clear is that an economically depressed town, a complacent school and police department, as well as, for the first time, an uninterested media will come together to make the perfect disappearing act.


Sources:
Memoir of a milk carton kid. WorldCat. OCLC 754718762


Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode 87 part two of a true crime couple. I'm Kay and I'm John

0:05.9

So today because it's part two we really don't have any of that normal stuff in the beginning to go over with you

0:12.0

So we just thought we'd dive right into this episode. Are you ready? John? I'm ready. Let's do it

0:17.4

You seemed a little off

0:19.6

You ready to go I have to tell you the truth. I was daydreaming. I was kind of looking outside at our little property

0:24.2

We have out here. I know it was like you were one of my students. I was like, are you ready? I'm back in a way

0:28.4

Yes, I'm good. I'm here. So where we left off 14-year-old Tanya Cash had just confided in her father and his girlfriend

0:36.7

That the last time she had tried to run away, which is pretty frequently happening in her life

0:42.6

That her uncle on her maternal side had made a sexual advance towards her

0:47.9

Her father and his girlfriend told Tanya that they didn't believe her and they thought that she was just doing this for attention

0:56.3

Which is so sad. It's really sad and also like it's one of those things where it's like

1:01.8

You have to believe your child. Listen if you're a parent

1:04.8

I feel like you have to believe what your child is telling you kids just don't say those things out of like thin air

1:11.2

So I think that it's very obnoxious to think that she's lying. I think also too you need to take everything as an isolated

1:18.4

Incident like yes, we can all agree that at this point

1:23.1

Running away so often

1:26.2

Has made her seem to be is if she's having a she's a problem child because she really is having issues in school adjustment issues

1:34.4

Issues with her father's new girlfriend, but just because she is having trouble in other places in her life

1:41.0

Doesn't mean that she's lying about something like this exactly

1:44.7

So

1:45.8

Tanya is going to state that each time she ran away

1:49.1

It was really from her father's girlfriend rather than her father himself her father said that

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