Her Killer Was Caught on Surveillance Moments Before Her Abduction: The Case of Aniah Blanchard

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Aniah Blanchard was a 19-year-old college student living in Auburn, Alabama, when on October 23, 2019, she never returned home. Despite dropping off her brother and telling him she was headed back to her apartment, she never arrived. Then, odd messages to her roommate started coming through, and by the next day, it was clear that she’d never made it back. Friends and family joined in on the search, and two days later, her car was found abandoned 50 miles away. There was enough blood inside of her vehicle that investigators determined foul play had occurred. Over the following weeks, three men ended up getting arrested in connection with her abduction, but only one of those men, Ibraheem Yazeed, was determined to be responsible for her actual murder. About a month later, Aniah’s body was found, and despite overwhelming evidence to suggest Ibraheem murdered her, he has yet to face trial in part because of the pandemic and also in part due to our slow justice system. However, justice is on the horizon. Her family never gave up hope that she would be found, and they have since created Aniah’s Heart, a nonprofit in her honor.

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0:40.0	Thank you so much for joining me today and And if you are new, then welcome.
0:43.8	I'm so happy to have you.
0:45.0	So guys, today we're gonna be talking about a case
0:46.8	that, I mean, they all break my heart.
0:49.2	This one really hit me hard.
0:52.0	I think it's because this victim is so young and because this was so preventable
0:56.8	that it left me feeling incredibly angry, but also very inspired by this family who has done so much for the community and to
1:06.6	prevent this from happening to other people after going through one of the, I mean, in my opinion, the worst thing possible in life,
1:16.4	losing your child at a young age in such a violent horrific way.
1:21.5	And just this victim, Anaya Blanchard, was such a special young woman and the family, their interviews and everything. I just, I am beyond heartbroken for all of them. I think what really
1:35.2	inspired me so much about their family is the way that they all came together and
1:40.2	the way that they fought so hard for Anaya and in the wake of their own tragedy
1:46.0	to then think about how they can help others in their community and prevent this
1:50.6	from possibly happening to others is just it's amazing to me I don't
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