Junaliza Maturan Oroc Chappell Part 4: Intertwined
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 13 July 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Over the last several weeks, we’ve been untangling the disappearance of Junaliza Chappell, a young mother who was trying to leave her husband, Timothy Chappell, and start over in California with her 3-year-old daughter, Ashley.
Juna had a plan. Ashley was already in California with people Juna trusted. Juna had completed job training in Florida and was supposed to return to Atlanta, get her car, and drive west. But Juna never made it back to her daughter.
After Juna vanished, Timothy disappeared with Ashley. U.S. Marshals eventually found him driving Juna’s car with Ashley in the backseat. Many of Juna’s personal belongings were still inside the vehicle. Timothy was arrested that day, but not for anything connected to Juna’s disappearance.
In Part 3, we looked more closely at Timothy’s history, the records Ashley later found, and the pattern that began to emerge, including his 2010 arrest for exploiting a 15-year-old girl, a case that eventually sent him to federal prison for 20 years.
Part 4 is different. This episode centers on Ashley and the way her story is intertwined with her mother’s disappearance. Ashley was only 3 years old when Juna vanished. For most of her life, she carried memories from that time, some painful, some confusing, and some so fragmented that she questioned whether she could trust them at all. But as Ashley began searching for answers, some of those memories began to connect to records, conversations, and details she had never fully understood before.
Ashley is not only trying to understand what happened to her mother. She is also trying to understand what happened to her and what Juna may have been trying to protect her from.
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| 0:00.0 | Her mother was in the Philippines. |
| 0:09.6 | Her mom would call me. |
| 0:11.8 | Bless her heart, she didn't speak English to speak of, and she'd just call me and want |
| 0:16.2 | to know if I found Juna yet. |
| 0:18.4 | Just break my heart when I had to tell her no. |
| 0:22.0 | We're working on it. |
| 0:26.7 | To hear from her was in a way heartwarminging and another way heartbreaking because I so wanted to get answers for her all those years ago and I just, I couldn't get them. |
| 0:34.4 | I have these small, short burst of memories, Memories, but they got gaps in them. |
| 0:41.0 | And after reading those documents, it really validated my memories. I've always struggled with |
| 0:46.5 | what's real and what's not. So after reading about the psychologist that interviewed me for months |
| 0:53.3 | and facts that the detectives found about my |
| 0:56.6 | biological father and the truck he drove and his friends and the motels we stayed in. |
| 1:01.6 | It all really kind of filled in those gaps and it did nothing other than validate what I |
| 1:08.4 | already felt and knew. |
| 1:11.3 | Over the past several weeks, we've been untangling the story of Junal Lisa Chapel's disappearance. |
| 1:17.2 | In part one, you learned about Juna's life, how she came to the U.S. to marry Timothy |
| 1:21.5 | Chapel, a man nearly twice her age, and that by 2007, Juna was planning her way out of that marriage. Just as she and her |
| 1:30.5 | three-year-old daughter Ashley were about to be free, Juna disappeared without a trace. As the search for |
| 1:36.7 | Juna began, the people around her started learning more about Timothy. He was a sex offender |
| 1:42.2 | who had failed to register, and soon he seemed to disappear too. |
| 1:46.9 | Ashley was with him, and everyone was frantic to get her back safely. The U.S. Marshals eventually |
| 1:52.7 | caught up to Timothy. When they pulled him over, he was driving Juna's car. Ashley was in the |
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