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I always waited for him to come through the door, you know, and you don't have that closure, you just wait for them to just come through the door.

I kept in touch with the detectives for many years and then it went to the cold case. You know, it went to the cold case department and I touched base with the detect, the cold case detective.

It's been a while since I called them and they just say there's nothing new, nothing happening.

But again, I watched the show using it just takes one person to pull that post-case file off the shelf and dig into it with the new set of eyes and maybe they can figure something out.

On August 22, 2000, 39-year-old Joey Galledlow left his job as a welder in Phoenix, Arizona around 2.30 pm. Joey never made it home and he was never seen again.

A couple weeks later, his truck was found abandoned in the desert. The truck was trashed and the windows were busted out.

In the months leading up to his disappearance, Joey was surrounded by a new group of people. People he didn't know very well and may have been involved in nefarious things.

After he disappeared, the detective handling his case went to great lengths to try to figure out if these people could have been involved in his disappearance.

But over 18 years later, Joey is still missing and his case remains unsolved.

I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 141 of The Vanished. Joey Galledlow's story.

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I was contacted by Joey's daughter Amy several months ago to see if I would cover his case. Amy was just six when her father disappeared and has been deeply affected by his absence.

Since Amy was so young, I interviewed her along with her mother, Joey's wife at the time, Rochelle. There isn't much information about Joey or his disappearance online. He never received any media coverage.

I was, however, lucky enough to be granted access to his case file. In the months leading up to Joey's disappearance, he wasn't living at home with his wife and daughter.

Joey had struggled with addiction and went to live temporarily in a facility to try to get clean. Here's Rochelle talking about Joey's disappearance.

He was in a transitional living facility. He had gotten into drugs. And that's probably why there's not a whole lot out there because, you know, I know that you're aware because I listen to your podcast all the time.

And you say yourself that they don't really do a whole lot of media and stuff for, you know, people that have made bad choices.

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