Girl Begs Mom to Come Home, Two Weeks Later Missing: Where is Andi Wagner?
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Elane Garcia, unhappy in Evansville Indiana, moves to Texas. She tries to convince her oldest daughter, Andi Wagner, to move with her, but she decides to stay in Evansville. The plan is for her to live with her grandparents, making it possible for Wagner to be near her father and younger sister.
After the move to Texas, Garcia and Andi keep in touch, often using Facetime, but Garcia says she starts seeing a change in her daughter. She seems tired all the time. Garcia pushes for her daughter to move to Texas to live with her. Wagner finally agrees. Garcia is excited and apparently so is Wagner who tells her friends and family about her relocation plan.
Two weeks before her mother is to arrive in Indiana to take her back to Texas, Andi Wagner goes to her grandparents’ house and packs a bag. Her younger sister, Alix Wagner, talks to her, but Andi Wagner doesn't volunteer much information about what she is doing, where she is going, or who she is with. Andi Wagner is only at the house for about 10 minutes, then leaves with a packed bag.
When Elane Garcia tries for several days to reach Andi by phone and fails, they reach out to the Evansville Police department and file a "missing person" report on August 12.
Wagner is described as 5 foot six, 115 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Andi has a mole near her upper lip and several tattoos. She has her mother’s name on her forearm, a small rocket on her left ankle and one with Roman numerals. She was last seen wearing an orange tank top and jeans.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Elane Garcia - Andi Wagner’s mother, Facebook: AnswersForAndi and Be Andi's Voice, www.gofundme.com/f/find-bring-andi-wagner-home
- Alan Bennett - Former Assistant District Attorney, Partner at Gunter, Bennett, and Anthes, gbafirm.com
- Dr. John Delatorre - licensed psychologist and mediator, specializing in forensic psychology, psychological consultant to Project Absentis: a nonprofit organization that searches for missing persons, resolutionfcs.com, Twitter, IG, and TikTok - @drjohndelatorre\
- Brian Fitzgibbons - Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security, leads his team of investigators specializing in locating missing persons, uspasecurity.com, Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security, Fmr. Marine and Iraq war veteran
- Ronnie - Founder of Brother’s Underwater Recovery, a search and rescue dive team (also searches on land), Helping search for Andi, YouTube & FB: Brother’s Underwater Recovery, TikTok: brothersunderwater
- Steve Mehling - Reporter at 14 News in Evansville, Indiana. (NBC Affiliate), www.14news.com, Instagram: @stevemehlingtv ; Twitter (x): @Steve14News
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:08.0 | How does a gorgeous girl in her early 20s just drop off the face of the earth and we have no idea what happened? I'm not buying that for one minute and I want |
| 0:28.7 | to know what happened to Andy Wagner? |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. |
| 0:36.3 | Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and on Series XM 111. |
| 0:41.6 | First of all, Andy Wagner last heard from on August the 6th. What happened? |
| 0:51.2 | Listen. |
| 0:52.2 | Elaine Garcia planned to come back to Evansville, Indiana to pick up her oldest daughter, Andy Wagner, |
| 0:57.2 | and take her back to Texas, where the two would live together. |
| 1:00.4 | Those plans have now changed, and Garcia has moved back to Evansville to search for her oldest daughter. |
| 1:05.3 | Andy Wagner was last seen weeks ago on August 6th and other than a text message that same day |
| 1:11.0 | Wagner has not had any contact with family members or friends. |
| 1:15.1 | Her mother is worried because Andy Wagner was extremely excited about the move to Texas. |
| 1:19.6 | Okay, you're hearing from our friends at crime online.com and with me right now an all-star panel to make sense of where is Andy? |
| 1:30.0 | Joining us is Andy's mother, Elaine Garcia. |
| 1:35.1 | Now, if you want to find her online, |
| 1:37.0 | you can go to Answers for Andy and B, Andy's voice. |
| 1:43.0 | Elaine, thank you for being with us. |
| 1:45.0 | Thank you for inviting me, Nancy. |
| 1:47.0 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm trying to figure out you going to Evansville to get your daughter I mean I'd go to the end of the earth to get my |
| 1:57.7 | daughter or my son Lucy or John David they wanted to come home the end of the earth. I would fight through chewing gum to |
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