Implicit Digits, Spontaneous Visits & The Emotional Specifics of Purchasing One-Way Tickets: Andrew Gosden

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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On the morning of September 14, 2007, an accomplished 14-year-old student named Andrew Gosden skipped school for unknown reasons and boarded a train headed to Kings Cross Station in London, at which point he was captured alone on surveillance video exiting to the street. But that was the last confirmed sighting of the teen. He was never heard from again. Many theories about his vanishing have gained traction in the aftermath, yet his disappearance remains a mystery to this day. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological exploration of Andrew's actions leading up to the event in an effort to understand why he left, in addition to how he might have met his untimely demise.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:10.5	back at you to examine one of the more perplexing mysteries to come out of England in recent times, which is the disappearance of 14-year-old Andrew Gosden.
0:19.0	On the morning of September 14, 2007, the team left his Balby home and boarded a train departing
0:26.8	the Doncaster Railway Station. Soon after, he arrived at King's Cross Station in London and was captured on surveillance video as he prepared to leave the premises.
0:37.0	But Andrew's ultimate destination was unknown.
0:41.0	And tragically, that's the last time there's a confirmed sighting of him.
0:46.2	In more than 12 years since that event, not one shred of evidence has come to light to suggest
0:52.1	what might have been the fate of Andrew
0:53.7	Gosden. Many theories arose in the aftermath of the disappearance.
0:58.1	Yet none has been lent legitimacy by way of fact.
1:03.5	The authorities, Andrew's family, and the general public are all left baffled, ignorant,
1:10.1	and hoping for the mercy of a lead suddenly coming to fruition.
1:14.4	Was Andrew simply skipping school and wanted the excitement of a day away from the mundane
1:19.5	grind of attending classes and doing related work?
1:23.5	Was there a concert or perhaps another event in London that day Andrew wanted to attend?
1:29.7	But for which he believed his parents wouldn't allow him, thereby making forgiveness after the fact a better option than seeking permission beforehand?
1:39.0	Was Andrew depressed, even suicidal, and sought the anonymity of the big city as a means of concealing
1:46.4	the shame of his act from his family and others?
1:50.1	Or was the teen groomed by an adult some sort of sexual predator and succumbed in his ignorance upon arriving in London and getting caught in a web?
2:01.0	Now, I shouldn't mention right up front that I don't see a rational narrative present in this story
2:08.1	meaning I don't think Andrew's desires intentions and actions form a cohesive physical sequence that allows the disappearance
2:16.9	to be solved by way of examining his movements.
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