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The biggest mysteries about the whole thing or maybe the overall mystery of all of this,

we just don't know. There's a million questions and very few answers.

It's strange, it really is mind-boggling because you just don't know where to go.

You don't know which way to look, you don't know which lead to pursue, you don't know what to do.

It just ends up paralyzing you because there's infinite possibilities of what happened.

Hello and welcome to episode 73 of The Vanished.

19 year old Martin Roberts disappeared from Boone, North Carolina on April 21, 2016.

The last confirmed sighting of Martin was on that day when he was speaking to a friend on the sidewalk.

This conversation was seen on bus surveillance cameras, but after that, Martin simply vanished.

During the investigation into Martin's disappearance, detectives found that there was a lot of time on accountant for in the weeks leading up to his disappearance,

where Martin wasn't leaving a digital trail and none of his friends know what he was doing either.

The Boone Police Department and Martin's family have been digging for answers, but the further they dig, the deeper the mystery gets.

Could he have been secretly planning a new life?

This is part one of Martin's story.

The Boone Police Department and Martin's family have been digging for answers, but Martin's family have been digging for answers, but Martin's family have been digging for answers, but Martin's family have been digging for answers.

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At the time of Martin's disappearance, he was attending college and living in scenic Boone North Carolina with three other full-time students who were also his fraternity brothers.

In the days leading up to his disappearance, nothing seemed out of the ordinary to any of Martin's friends or family. Martin appeared to be doing all the things that he usually did.

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