Gorgeous Coed FAKES KIDNAP to Avoid Admitting SHE WON’T GRADUATE ON TIME
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Graduation was just a few days away for a 23-year-old Pennsylvania coed when she vanished.
Chloe Stein was last seen leaving her job at a Sonic restaurant in Hempfield Township. Her boyfriend received a text that night saying she was being pulled over, but she wasn’t seen or heard from again. Police issued a Missing Endangered Person Advisory for her.
Two days later State Police received a tip that Stein was at a home in Jeannette. She was found safe. She told police that she was abducted at gunpoint by a man in a mask and was later released.
It wasn't long before Stein admitted that she made it up, because she didn't want to admit that she wasn't graduating and in fact hadn't been going to school at all.
- Matthew Mangino – Attorney and Former District Attorney (Lawrence County, PA); Author: “The Executioner’s Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States;” Twitter: @MatthewTMangino
- Dr. Nicole Vienna - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in trauma and neurodevelopmental disorders), CEO: Vienna Psychological Group, Inc.; Instagram: @drnicolevienna, Facebook: @vienna_psych_group
- Bill Garcia - Private Investigator with "Bill Garcia Investigative Services;" Part of Search Team for Sherri Papini
- Trace Sargent- Search, Rescue & Recovery Expert; Podcast: "The Seeker’s Quest;" Facebook: The Seeker’s Quest
- Renatta Signorini - Staff Writer at the Tribune-Review in Greensburg, Pa.; Twitter: @byRenatta
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| 0:00.0 | A beautiful young Pennsylvania college co-ed goes missing in the middle of the night, or did she? |
| 0:23.0 | Take a listen to our friends at KDKA. |
| 0:25.4 | Police are investigating this young woman, Chloe Stein, who has been missing since last night 11pm. |
| 0:33.4 | And I just talked to her mother. |
| 0:35.4 | As you can imagine, she is just distraught, breaking down, just telling me she just wants answers. |
| 0:40.4 | And right now, state police are trying to do that. |
| 0:43.4 | They say they got a call this morning from Chloe's boyfriend, who said that he had communicated with her around 11pm last night, |
| 0:53.4 | saying that she was being pulled over. |
| 0:55.4 | Her mom said something was wrong with her headlight. |
| 0:58.4 | And at that point, the family never heard from her again. |
| 1:02.4 | Okay, just imagine this scenario. |
| 1:05.4 | Your girl is at school at college. |
| 1:08.4 | And suddenly, you find out that she's on the phone with the boyfriend, claiming she's getting pulled over. |
| 1:17.4 | And then she's never heard from again. |
| 1:22.4 | Now take a listen to Jennifer Barrasso. |
| 1:25.4 | 23 years old, that is Chloe Stein's age. |
| 1:29.4 | She was set to graduate from Penn State Greater Allegheny this weekend. |
| 1:34.4 | Her mother is desperate for answers. |
| 1:36.4 | She tells me that Chloe's boyfriend was the last person to communicate with her via text. |
| 1:41.4 | And it was her boyfriend and two friends who found Chloe's car earlier today, not far from where she worked. |
| 1:48.4 | Here's the timeline that we know. |
| 1:50.4 | Just after 10pm last night, Chloe's mom tells me her daughter finished working at the Sonic in Hemfield Township. |
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