It's hard to imagine losing a loved one, a wife, a husband, a child. For many, it's their biggest fear.

From Wundery, The Vanished is a podcast that tells stories of often overlooked and

unsolved missing persons cases. Each episode host Marissa Jones dives deep

into a new case sharing the details of their mysterious

disappearance from interviews with family, friends, law enforcement, and even suspects

in an effort to reveal the truth. The Vanished has even aided in getting long

overdo arrests through their in-depth interviews. In a special two-part series the

vanished dives into the mysterious case of Melissa In a special two-part series, The Vanished Dives

into the mysterious case of Melissa Highsmith.

When Melissa was an infant, desperate for child care,

her mother put out an advertisement for a babysitter, someone who called themselves Ruth Johnson

answered the ad and picked Melissa up from their apartment the next day.

Melissa was never to be seen again. What happened to Melissa? Was Ruth

Johnson a malicious kidnapper or was she just a cover story for a much more sinister plot.

I'm about to play you a clip of Melissa's story on The Vanished.

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If this was your sister, what would you do? Would you ever give up? Would you want people to get

involved in the story to share it? I've taken on a different outlook on when I see things that people

ask to share. I've started sharing them because they are searching for something or

someone or whatever and this is what we're doing we're

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