Kianna Galvin
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On May 6, 2016, 17-year-old Kianna Galvin told her sister that she was going to the park and left the family home in South Elgin, Illinois, on foot. Kianna did not go to the park but instead walked to the house of an acquaintance. Neighbors later reported that they saw Kianna going into the house, but she did not come out. Her cell phone died or was shut off several hours later, and she hasn’t been seen since. Kianna’s story is one full of unanswered questions, a quest for justice, and characters whose actions remain unexplained.
If you have any information about Kianna Galvin’s disappearance, please call the South Elgin Police Department at 630-232-8400.
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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. |
| 0:21.3 | I'll be damned if he ever gets out and walks freely and has his own children. |
| 0:25.7 | If my daughter can't breathe, I feel like he shouldn't be able to breathe anymore. |
| 0:30.7 | Keep fighting, never be silent. Your child isn't here, so you have to be a voice for your child and just keep going. |
| 0:39.0 | I've been doing this four years plus now and I'm just not going to be silent or quiet. |
| 0:46.8 | I don't care who's feeling it hurts or how anybody feels about the way I grieve. |
| 0:52.3 | It is what it is and it should be a fight any mother should take on for the fact that your child isn't here to do it with them. |
| 0:59.7 | It feels like groundhog day to be honest. We live in the same day over and over and over and they're not knowing |
| 1:06.8 | and never seeing her and hearing her and touching her and just her presence alone is just unbelievably heartbreaking. |
| 1:16.4 | But my main priority is to bring my child home. That's the growth that I'm at now because before I would be like |
| 1:24.3 | there's never going to be closure for me and her sister. This is always going to be a hole in her heart for as long as I live |
| 1:32.4 | because you're not supposed to outlive your kids. |
| 1:37.2 | On May 6th, 2016, 17-year-old Kiana Galvin told her sister that she was going to the park |
| 1:45.2 | and left the family home in South Elgin, Illinois on foot. |
| 1:49.6 | Kiana didn't go to the park but instead walked to the house of an acquaintance. |
| 1:54.9 | Neighbors later reported that Kiana was seen going into the house but that she didn't come out. |
| 2:00.8 | Her cell phone died or was shut off several hours later and she hasn't been seen in the four and a half |
| 2:07.1 | years that have passed since her disappearance. |
| 2:10.1 | Kiana's story is one with unanswered questions, a quest for justice, and many characters whose |
| 2:16.8 | actions remain unexplained. I'm Marissa and from Wondery this is episode 258 of The Vanished. |
| 2:25.2 | Kiana Galvin's story. |
| 2:54.1 | 13 years ago in one of the cramped dorm rooms of prestigious Sarah Lawrence College, |
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