Jacob Hilkin Part 2

The Vanished Podcast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

24-year-old Jacob Hilkin was last seen at 10:20am in Tulalip, Washington on January 23, 2018. He had been at a casino with some friends and left stating that he was going to catch a bus home. There is no evidence that he got on a bus that day. His family, friends and volunteers have not stopped searching for Jake but with many unconfirmed sightings and little evidence to go on, what happened to him remains a mystery.

For this second part of Jacob's story, his mom, Marni, joined me again to discuss the more recent developments in his case.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Jacob Hilkin, please call the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office at 425-388-3845. You can follow his case on Facebook: Find Jacob Hilkin.

UPDATE: On Sunday, February 9, 2020, skeletal remains were located not far from where Jacob was last seen. They were later identified as Jacob Hilkin.

The episode was co-researched and written by Marissa Jones and Erika Gwynn. To find more of Erika's work, please check out her podcast at https://www.apexandabyss.com.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:17.0	They had the second largest search in the state of Washington that had ever occurred.
0:24.0	You feel like finally you're getting the attention that you've wanted this whole time.
0:33.0	And you are. That whole day you're on pins and needles because you want them to find something.
0:38.0	But yet, at the end of the day, when they don't, you still have that little bit of hope that, well, we know he's not here.
0:49.0	He still could do somewhere else.
0:59.0	In episode 117, you heard the story of 24-year-old Jacob Hulken.
1:05.0	Jacob was last seen on January 23rd, 2018, at 10.20am, into Leyla, Washington.
1:12.0	The police spoke to Jacob while they were doing a homeless sweep of the area.
1:17.0	He stated to them that he was trying to catch a bus back home.
1:21.0	The previous evening, he had been at his mother's house when a few friends came by to pick him up.
1:26.0	Jacob and his friends went to a casino for a few hours, despite the fact that Jacob didn't have much money to gamble.
1:32.0	His friend would later state that he left the casino area to catch a bus back home to his mother's house.
1:37.0	But no one ever saw Jacob get on a bus.
1:40.0	After Jacob allegedly walked away from his friends to leave the casino, he seemed to have faded into the darkness of the night, like a ghost.
1:48.0	Since his disappearance there have been a handful of sightings that match his description, but none of those sightings have ever been confirmed.
1:55.0	Over the course of the last several months, there have been a few developments in his case.
2:00.0	Jacob's mother Marnie has been tirelessly searching for her son, looking for answers as to where he could be.
2:06.0	I'm Arissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 137 of The Vanished.
2:11.0	Part 2 of Jacob Hylken's story.
2:37.0	Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape, and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.
2:50.0	In this series of Briden and I talk to, among others, Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.
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