Few things are more devastating than a loved one going missing.

On The Vanished Podcast from Wondery, host Marissa Jones tells stories of missing persons

that have gone overlooked by the mainstream media.

She gets the story from friends and family of the missing person,

and frequently talks with law enforcement and others close to the case.

Marissa wants to help families find their

vanished loved ones, or a sense of peace. With more than 300 episodes, The Vanished has hours

of cases for you to experience. In a recent episode, Marissa looks into the case of Sophia Juarez.

18 years ago, Sophia disappeared on the night before her fifth birthday. With most of her family now deceased, dedicated law enforcement officers are carrying the torch for Sophia, hoping that she's still out there. Then years later, the case reignited when a woman in Mexico, who looks like Sophia, appeared in a TikTok video and said she was kidnapped as a child.

Could it be Sophia? The Vanished has the story of this abduction and the decades-long search

to find Sophia Juarez. You're about to hear a preview of The Vanished. While you're listening,

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Wondery. Feel the story.

The time that has passed, the number of years that it passed, we know that somebody out there somewhere knows something.

And the reality of it is, is over the last 18 years, relationship changes, people's loyalty changes. Sometimes people want to clear

their conscience. The reality of it is, is we need one tip. We just need the right tip. We've had a lot

of tips over the last 18 years. We've had literally thousands of tips, and we worked each and every one of those. But we need one

credible tip. And I still believe that at some particular point in time, we will get that tip.

Somebody will want to clear their conscience. We will continue to generate information on this

so that we can exhaust all leads. On the evening of February 4, 2003, 4th, 2003, 4-year-old Sophia Juarez was at home in Kennewick,

Washington.

One of her relatives left the family home to go make a quick stop at a nearby convenience

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