Kelsie Schelling
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Kelsie Schelling has been missing since February of 2013. She had recently found out that she was expecting and while she was excited to become a mom, the father of her child, Donthe Lucas, was not so thrilled. She texted an ultrasound picture to Donthe shortly before she vanished. Upon seeing the photo, he encouraged her to travel from Denver down to Pueblo to visit him. Supposedly, he had a surprise that he wanted to show her. Kelsie made the trip to Pueblo but she never made it home. She left behind a trail of text messages and her car was seen on multiple surveillance videos in the Pueblo area. Where is Kelsie and why has no one been prosecuted?
December 2017 Update: Donthe Lucas has been charged with Kelsie's murder. Read more here: http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/donthe-lucas-charged-with-first-degree-murder-in-kelsie-schelling-disappearance
March 2021 Update: On March 8, 2021, Donthe Lucas was found guilty of first degree murder.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:10.2 | Kelsey is extremely bubbly. She definitely made people cheer up if they were down or had a sad day or |
| 0:18.8 | but she was just a complete a complete group of times but extremely independent. I mean she |
| 0:25.3 | moved out here you know from Colorado and to California and just was very strong and |
| 0:34.9 | and very well then but just very sweet at the same time. |
| 0:41.2 | You don't have anything to hide and you care why are you not out there with us and making |
| 0:49.2 | please to the public and doing everything you can to help find her and find out what happened to her. |
| 0:56.1 | I mean it just it discreens volumes about him. |
| 1:01.7 | To quote her, she would describe it as you know Don Te is having his free got rampages again |
| 1:08.8 | about the baby. I just care about finding my daughter so if I find her but whatever evidence |
| 1:16.8 | around there isn't admissible because I found her you know I don't care I want to find my |
| 1:23.2 | daughter and I want to bring her home so that that's my number one priority and you know the |
| 1:30.3 | conviction the rest in conviction is secondary to that there's no way I will ever have any peace |
| 1:36.8 | in my heart if I don't find her. |
| 1:40.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 58 of The Vanished. |
| 1:44.6 | 21-year-old Kelsey Shelling disappeared after leaving her shift at Florentay Corp in the Denver |
| 1:50.4 | Colorado area on the evening of February 4th 2013. She drove almost two hours to visit her |
| 1:57.0 | boyfriend Dante Lucas in Pueblo, Colorado. The last known communications from Kelsey's phone |
| 2:02.8 | were in the early morning hours of February 5th 2013 when she was texting back and forth with |
| 2:08.6 | Dante then she simply vanished. The thing about Kelsey's disappearance is that it isn't so much of a |
| 2:15.2 | who done it. The real mystery here is why no one has been charged. This is Kelsey's story. |
| 2:29.6 | By all accounts Kelsey was a kind, funny and vibrant 21-year-old. She had recently found out that |
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