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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

GORGEOUS MOM DISAPPEARS FROM OWN HOME: WHERE'S ECHO?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

After divorcing, Echo Lloyd moves 16 miles from her home to rural Edwards, Missouri. The property is remote. Kelsey Smith says her mother loves the quiet and begins planning renovations, cleaning up the landscaping, and deciding how to paint the house.

Kelsey visits her mother’s home with Mother’s Day gifts. Echo’s car is not in the driveway. Kelsey leaves a purple potted plant and a card asking Echo to call when she gets the gifts. Echo never does. After a week without contact, Kelsey returns.

The search for Echo Lloyd begins immediately when she does not answer the door. Kelsey walks around the home, knocking on the front and back doors, but gets no response. Echo’s car is now in the driveway. Walking around the property, Kelsey calls out for her mother but hears nothing. She notices a cracked back window and slides it open enough to climb inside.

Inside, Kelsey finds the home in disarray, which is unusual. Echo, who had OCD, kept everything in place. Her purse is under the nightstand with her wallet and ID inside. However, her car keys, pistol, and medications are missing. Kelsey reports her mother missing.

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • Kelsey Smith - Echo’s Daughter; Facebook: Bring Echo Home, Gofundme: Bring Echo Home: 
  • Wendy Patrick - California Prosecutor, President and Founder of Black Swan Verdicts, and Author:  "Red Flags: Frenemies, Underminers, and Ruthless People;" Host of ‘Today with Dr Wendy’ on KCBQ San Diego; X: @WendyPatrickPHD 
  • Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, and Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital; Voted My Buckhead’s Best Psychiatric Practice of 2022, 2023 and 2024
  • Barry Hutchison - former police officer and detective, owner & Chief Investigator Barry & Associates Investigative Services Kansas & Missouri  www.pibarry.com
  • Tim Miller - Founder, Texas EquuSearch; TexasEquuSearch.org 
  • Sherae Honeycutt - Emmy-winning Journalist, Public Relations Professional, Foster Care Advocate and Current Press Secretary and City Spokesperson for the City of Kansas City; IG: @sheraeloveskc; X: @sheraehoneycutt

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:06.4

A gorgeous mom disappears from her own home?

0:11.5

Where is Echo?

0:13.7

I'm Nancy Grace.

0:14.7

This is Crime Stories.

0:15.8

Thank you for being with us.

0:17.3

A Missouri mother disappears last seen at a local discount store. Her family desperate to find

0:24.2

Echo Lloyd. Mom, a four Echo Lloyd goes to a discount store, then comes home and is apparently

0:31.3

never seen again. That doesn't make sense. Listen, Kelsey Smith drops by her mother's home with Mother's Day gifts

0:40.0

Echo's car is not in the driveway Kelsey leaves a purple potted plant and a card the card has a

0:47.2

message for Echo to call when she gets the gifts echo doesn't after a week with no contact

0:53.0

Kelsey returns to her mom's home.

0:55.4

Highly, highly unusual for Mom Echo to go over a day without speaking to her daughter.

1:04.2

The daughter going to the home, banging, banging on the door trying to reach Mom.

1:09.1

Echo can't reach her. Take a look at this beautiful

1:13.4

mom of four. Echo Lloyd. Where is Echo? Joining me, Wendy Patrick, renowned prosecutor, author of

1:22.8

Why Bad Looks So Good, Second Book Reading People, how to understand people, predict their behavior

1:28.3

anytime, any place. She is the star of today with Dr. Wendy on KCBQ. Wendy,

1:35.6

Wendy, behavior evidence or routine evidence, not predictable as in routine, but evidence of your normal routine.

1:46.7

For instance, if the camera came to this seat and I was not in it, that would be breaking routine.

1:53.7

And that means something, Wendy, what does it mean?

1:58.1

It is powerful evidence of habit, of custom, of pattern of practice.

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