"It was crushing to the community"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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When a 34-year old Maryland woman disappears, police grow suspicious of her husband during the search. WUSA9's Nathan Baca tells us about Katie Lehan. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.6	She was a very, she had a very bubbly personality.
0:06.4	She loved everybody, and I don't know that she's ever had an enemy in her life.
0:13.1	For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson.
0:15.0	This is The Daily Crime.
0:18.7	It was just one year ago in March of 2020 that a young woman in Middletown, Maryland,
0:25.0	34-year-old wife and mother, Katie Lahan, went missing.
0:29.0	I'm joined by WSA-9 investigative reporter Nathan Baca to talk more about this story and what happened.
0:35.7	Nathan, let me start by saying, you know, this all happened in March of 2020.
0:40.0	And, I mean, what a time we were getting into with the pandemic and the virus. And a lot of news stories might have not not have gotten the attention that others were getting, you know, that they normally would have gotten.
0:50.5	Right, because this was a case right whenever the pandemic was starting to strike.
0:56.6	And you had the community, despite that, despite the fears of the initial COVID surge, come out in force.
1:06.7	The Middletown, Maryland community would come out, volunteer search teams, the sheriff's office was
1:13.4	organizing teams to look. I talked to Katie LaHan's brother who said that there were times whenever
1:20.6	people would just constantly come to the house and ask how they can help the search. It was a community rallying around something they felt they can actually do something about
1:32.1	as opposed to the pandemic, which was really starting to tighten that community and shut it down.
1:40.3	Even to the point that there was one volunteer who said that they had just lost their job because of the
1:46.6	pandemic, and they just needed something to do to feel that they had purpose, and they joined the
1:53.5	search. And let me set the stage a little bit more for our listeners, Middletown, Maryland,
1:58.2	describe that town and where it is.
2:05.2	Well, I have the chance to live there for a few months whenever I first moved in the D.C. area, my parents-in-law had a house there. The people who live in Middletown are a mix.
2:11.8	It's in central Maryland. It's that junction between western Maryland, which is a little bit more hilly,
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