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The Vanished Podcast

James "Martin" Roberts Part 2

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

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

4.515K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

19-year-old Martin Roberts was last seen in Boone, NC on April 21, 2016. He left his apartment and was captured on a surveillance video around 12:30PM. After that, he vanished and no trace of him has been found. In Part 1, you heard from Martin's dad, John Roberts. In Part 2, you will hear from Lieutenant Chris Hatton and Detective Kevin Wilson from The Boone Police Department about what they have been doing to try to find Martin. If you have any information about Martin's disappearance, please contact Crime Stoppers at (828) 268-6959 or Boone Police at (828) 268-6900. Visit HighCountryCrimeStoppers.com to submit an anonymous tip online using this form click here. You can also text "NCTIP" plus your tip to 274637 (CRIMES). You can follow Martin's case at the Help Find Martin Roberts on Facebook. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:12.2

For the best years, it's been really frustrating just because

0:15.6

You know kind of pouring our hearts and soul into something and it just nothing really is just coming back to us as far as

0:20.9

Good substantial lead and in police work

0:23.5

If you work hard enough something

0:25.5

Generally will do something will come to you to work on and it's just not been the case in this one

0:30.5

We've had lots of leads, but nothing that's been able to be

0:33.7

Substantiate it as a solid lead

0:40.9

The case file for Martin Roberts is probably three feet tall if you print it out paper and

0:48.0

Maybe a little taller and then there's a whole lot of like Google when you get Google search for it

0:53.3

It can come back with eight 9,000 pages worth of stuff

0:56.5

We don't print that out we keep that in digital form obviously

0:59.7

So who knows how much paper it would be if we printed everything out but

1:05.5

We've had some experts come in who really know their business and have them

1:10.1

Just go through everything and then with fresh eyes and try to give us new ideas and in this week, you know

1:16.1

It's the year mark Friday will be and we're doing the same thing again just

1:20.3

Just trying to think of something somebody may have one idea that might lead us to it

1:30.4

The main message from us is the Boone Police Department had given up hope the Roberts family definitely hasn't given up hope and

1:38.2

We're gonna keep looking until we find Martin

1:40.7

So if there's anybody listening that knows anything even if you think it's not important it may be very important to us

1:48.6

So if you know anything about it, please contact us

1:55.6

Hello and welcome to episode 74 of the vanished

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