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I was still so young at the time, but I do remember my father receiving phone calls and, you know, having to be notified for at least the first handful of years that

just to let you know we have found a body we're looking into it, but we're preliminarily letting you know that something has been found. And it would always turn out that it wasn't her.

I remember billboards in the town of Burlington, you know, the missing person sign, have you seen Carrie? And after a while the call stopped coming.

On December 5, 1989, 31-year-old Carrie O'Brien Krueger allegedly told her husband that she had to catch a last minute flight to Wyoming, so she could attend a trade show for work after another co-worker asked her to attend in their place.

The plan was that she and a co-worker would travel from Burlington, Wisconsin to Chicago, where they would then take a flight to Wyoming.

Carrie's husband Tracy told investigators that he remembers her kissing him goodbye at 4.30am on December 6, and that she asked him to take care of their three-year-old daughter, Megan, while she was gone.

A neighbor reported that they had seen a black car parked outside of the home around that same time. Since that day, more than 30 years ago, Carrie has never been seen or heard from again.

I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 221 of The Vanished, Carrie O'Brien Krueger's Story.

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At just 31, Carrie O'Brien Krueger was an accomplished woman. She had worked as a journalist and had a successful career in public relations.

Carrie also interned at the state capital, as well as some local newspapers. We were curious to know what Carrie was like and what made her into a strong, independent woman with a flourishing career, so we spoke to a couple of her siblings.

This is what her brother Pat shared with us about their upbringing.

There were seven of us originally, including Carrie, and two of my brothers had passed away, so there were four girls. She had three sisters, and then three brothers, and I'm the only brother remaining.

She was in the middle, as she was before. Carrie and I were relatively close. We were a part in age. Going through school and stuff, we were relatively close.

I mean, as much as a brother and sister became close when you're growing up, but we came from, I would say, at that time, probably a lower middle class family in a small town.

I think we're all fairly close, particularly the first five of us. I was the fifth because those five came in a span of something like nine years.

The younger two sisters, Molly being younger, she's 11 years younger than me, and Colleen is five years younger than me.

I was a little bit more spread out, but I still grew up with them somewhat. Whereas the older siblings were kind of out of the house by the time they got to great school.

But then we're all fairly close. The town grew up in as kind of, you know, maybe R.F.D. kind of small town atmosphere. I enjoyed it a lot. I think Carrie did.

And I think most of my siblings appreciated the, if you want to call them amenities of a small town life. But you know, it's typical 1960s, 70s, I would think.

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