Gorgeous Texas Bartender, 21, VANISHES: Arrest Made
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 5 August 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
After a night out with friends, Madeline Pantoja returned home, then stopped responding to texts and phone calls.
One of Pantoja’s friends and a sibling went to her apartment, but the door was locked and no one answered. Midland police were called. Officers broke in and found Pantoja’s phone, keys and her dog inside. Her car was also still in the parking lot.
Information began filtering in from neighbors who heard arguing from both inside and outside the apartment and screaming around 1 a.m. Surveillance cameras caught a pickup truck speeding away from the home.
Pantoja's body is found, 10 days after she vanished. Ex-boyfriends Mario Juan Chacon, 24, is booked on first-degree murder charges.
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Jasmine Hernandez - Victim’s close friend (showed up at Madeline’s apartment the next day when she wasn’t answering her phone) https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-find-madeline #helpusfindmadeline
- Irv Miller - Criminal Defense Attorney, The Miller Firm; Legal Analyst: CBS2 Chicago WBBM-TV and Legal Technical Advisor to “THE GOOD WIFE” and “THE GOOD FIGHT”- CBS productions
- Dr. Carla Manly - Clinical Psychologist and Author: “Date Smart: Transform Your Relationships & Love Fearlessly"
- Dorian Bond - Private detective and owner of Bond Investigations Inc. in Dallas, TX. (largest African American-owned Private Investigative firm in the United States, Licensed in over 42 states and Canada for over 25 years); Former Detective in Arizona and Investigator on the “Baby Gabriel" case in Arizona; Twitter: @bondinvestigate
- Rachel Hallam - Reporter for KMID TV in Odessa, TX; Twitter: @rachelhallamtv
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| 0:00.0 | The disappearance of a young Texas woman, Madeline Pantoha, after we take the story to |
| 0:23.4 | the air, a Texas man arrested. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:27.5 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:29.2 | Thank you for being with us here at Box Nation in Series XM-111. |
| 0:34.2 | The family of a 20-year-old Texas woman devastated 10 days after Madeline goes missing. |
| 0:43.4 | Her body found Pantoha last seen around 11 p.m. on May 10. |
| 0:50.1 | After going out with friends in Midland, that's about 300 miles west of Dallas, family |
| 0:56.9 | and friends immediately suspicious when they could not reach her the next day. |
| 1:02.6 | She had also left her phone, purse keys, and dog behind her at her apartment. |
| 1:10.8 | Her loved ones became even more angry after a week passed, and no progress reports in |
| 1:20.5 | the search for beautiful Madeline. |
| 1:25.4 | We learned that Mario Chacon 24 booked on Murder 1 in connection to the disappearance |
| 1:35.8 | and death of a beautiful 20-year-old girl, Madeline Pantoha. |
| 1:43.0 | How did the whole thing begin? |
| 1:45.4 | Take a listen to our friends at KWES. |
| 1:48.8 | Which continues for a 21-year-old Midland woman, Madeline Amaline Pantoha. |
| 1:53.7 | She was last seen on Wednesday around 11 p.m. at 17-11 West Francis. |
| 1:58.7 | There's still no word on what she was last wearing, but her phone and car were left at |
| 2:03.3 | her apartment. |
| 2:04.3 | If you have any information on Madeline's whereabouts, you can call the Midland Police Department |
| 2:09.0 | at 4-3-2-6-8-5-7-1-0-8. |
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