Inside a real abduction case: How we found the Bannister kids
AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK
AMERICA OUT LOUD PODCAST NETWORK
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton. |
| 0:14.2 | Well, on Monday of this week, a podcast called Chasing Evil podcast, published an episode that yours truly was on, |
| 0:24.1 | alongside of, I got to tell you, a hero of mine. |
| 0:30.0 | And this was a case that very strangely, God put me right in the center of. |
| 0:38.3 | And it's one of those bizarre things where you just, |
| 0:43.3 | strange things happen and I believe that everything happens for a reason. |
| 0:48.3 | I truly, truly believe that. |
| 0:51.3 | I believe that with all tragedies, |
| 0:53.3 | God takes those things if you're open to it. And God puts you in |
| 0:59.3 | really strange, bizarre, otherwise extraordinary positions to be able to help other people. |
| 1:08.4 | And I wanted to share this story because it's really powerful. And the episode, |
| 1:14.2 | which is episode one of three, episode one was published on the 20th of April. It's called Finding the |
| 1:22.1 | Bannisters. And if you know anything about this story, in 2019 melody banister took off with her four children |
| 1:34.6 | she took off with them and hid them for eight months using a sophisticated underground network, underground network, |
| 1:47.1 | made up of supposed. |
| 1:49.9 | I use the word supposed because you'll find out why in a little bit. |
| 1:56.8 | Supposed advocates, victims advocates, people who are supposed to be helping people who are in their |
| 2:04.3 | most vulnerable times. I happened to be the last person who Melody called before she fled with |
| 2:12.5 | the kids. I knew that she was going to take off, flee with the kids. |
| 2:19.0 | She told me as much. |
| 2:21.1 | I tried to convince her not to take off with the kids. |
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