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An entire family disappeared from Independence, Missouri, but it took five months for anyone to report it.

And then the police determined the parents were actually on the run and closed the case having never made contact with them.

It would take a family member doing her own investigation to get the case reopened.

I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines. Hello and welcome to today's episode of the 12 Days of Crime Lines where I cover 12 missing persons cases in the month of December. Last episode, I forgot

to mention that these will still be ad-free for Patreon, Supercast, and Apple subscribers, but they aren't going to be more than a couple hours early.

Part of that is just the workload, and I'm basically doing these as they get released.

But part of it is also how Apple shows premium content.

It makes it harder for everyone to find the episodes

if I flood it with ad-free stuff every other day. It works fine when I release it weekly,

but when I'm releasing multiple episodes a week, it makes it just too hard on the average

listener to find what they can listen to for free. So if you listen on Apple and you see

a paywall version of a 12 days episode pop up, just sit tight because the free ad-supported

version will be out in a few hours. So with that out of the way, today's case is an older one, and it is from the area I live in,

so I really wanted to cover it. It is one of the few I'm covering this month where I think

there is a high likelihood that at least two of the people we're talking about are alive out

there, and that means it needs more coverage and more awareness.

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