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The Kentucky State Police absolutely lost my son's vehicle. Lost it. Completely, un-equivably, you lost it.

As in it took you almost a month, five weeks to get the employee's testimony? What? That was the only evidence that we had.

What about asking them to perform the miracles? Or asking them to do their job? Period.

I was literally told unless he shows up or his body turns up. You may never find your son, is what I was told.

Take it being a K, take it being a K, take it being a K, you could be in a stink house. You may never find your son.

Well, that's difficult in itself to be able to realize that I may never be able to find my son or be able to have a plunger.

But it's even more persuasion to find out that you didn't look if it was your child you would look for a parent when you can't find your son and you have no idea where he is.

If he's alive, if he's dead, if you live your life every single minute of every day waiting for a phone call that's going to come, that's going to tell you that he's not alive anymore.

Hello and welcome to episode 46 of The Vanished.

24-year-old Jacob Tipton was last seen in Berea Kentucky on April 23rd, 2016.

Before he disappeared, Jacob had been planning to move to South Carolina to work on an oil rig.

Two weeks after Jacob went missing, his vehicle was found abandoned in a cemetery about two and a half hours away in Hart County, Kentucky. This is Jacob's story.

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I had the pleasure of speaking with Jacob's mom, Tanya, for the show. She explained to me some of the things that happened leading up to Jacob's disappearance.

But it actually started about two weeks before that. He had broken up with his girlfriend and was really upset and was kind of depressed and stuff. So he moved back in with his younger brother in Berea Kentucky.

And he had decided, well, he had told me and the rest of the family that he was going to get a job at an old rig in South Carolina.

Well, we tried to talk him out of it and stuff and he said, no, no, no, no, no, I'm going to go ahead and do it. Well, on April 21, I talked to him. He was a vehicle.

And said he's going to go down there, but he's not going to leave until Monday, which would have been, I think the 25th of April.

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