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I want to find my daughter is going on every three years soon and next couple months of you know founders can be three years.

We're missing out on the lot she's missing out on what she would never miss that baby being grown up. He's going to be three soon.

And November she was never missed out on his life. If anything said baby being born, she's going to be back home.

Not just to disappear on her own. I've never thought she'd disappear on her own. Never.

I want the truth to be known. I want James to speak up and say something. Even if he doesn't go to the cops or whatever at the very least talk to Lisa, she deserves to know what happened or if he knows anything.

She deserves some closure. The truth always comes out. For me, the number one suspect for me has always been James. Just because of the things that you have to keep in mind of the things that were taken from her luggage that was found.

Why would you take a high school diploma? What purpose does that start for you? Why not take cash or something like that? Something valuable.

And that to me is strange because the diploma that that would seem like a trophy to me. Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but that's something you take as a trophy.

On December 1st, 2015, Caitlin Michelle Aikens flew across the country from her home in Arizona to visit her family in Virginia.

She had been eagerly anticipating the arrival of her nephew and wanted to see him as soon as he was born. Four days later, on December 5th, 2015, 19-year-old Caitlin was supposed to fly back home to Arizona, but she never boarded her flight.

Two days after she disappeared, her luggage was found on the side of a Virginia highway with her wallet, identification, cash, and plane ticket. But there was no sign of Caitlin.

On the afternoon of her disappearance, Caitlin's mom and her fiance back in Arizona both received several strange text messages from Caitlin's phone. But they don't believe those messages actually came from Caitlin.

The last person to see Caitlin was her former stepfather, James. He says that he last saw Caitlin when he dropped her off at a mall several hours before her flight.

But James has refused to take a polygraph and law enforcement has struggled to break the encryption on his phone. Nearly three years have passed since Caitlin's disappearance, and her family is still searching for answers.

Amarissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 148 of The Vanished. Caitlin Aiken's story.

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19 year old Caitlin Aiken's had been visiting her family in Virginia at the beginning of December 2015.

She had made the trip specifically to see her newborn nephew. She also needed to get her high school diploma from her mom's house.

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