Kianna Galvin

And Then They Were Gone

Little Monster Productions

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Seventeen-year-old Kianna Galvin had just celebrated earning her GED and had plans to attend art school in Atlanta. But on May 6, 2016, she left her family’s home in South Elgin, Illinois, to visit someone in her neighborhood—and vanished without a trace. As hours turned into days, critical evidence began pointing investigators toward a dark possibility: that something terrible happened just blocks from her home.

Though police initially believed her to be a runaway, phone records and witness statements pointed to something far more sinister. But despite blood evidence, suspicious renovations, and conflicting statements from a person of interest, no arrests have been made in Kianna’s case, and nine years after her disappearance, there is still no trace of the bright, friendly teenager. Did someone she trusted betray her that spring afternoon? What really happened to Kianna Galvin?

If you have any information about what happened to Kianna Galvin, please reach out to the South Elgin Police Department at (847) 741-2151 or the Cook County Sheriff’s Special Victims Unit at 773-674-9490.

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0:00.0	Darkcast Network
0:04.0	Welcome to the dark side of podcasting
0:07.0	17-year-old Keanu Galvin had just celebrated earning her GED
0:12.9	and had plans to attend art school in Atlanta.
0:16.0	But on May 6th, 2016, she left her family's home in South Elgin, Illinois,
0:20.6	to visit someone in her
0:22.1	neighborhood, and then vanished without a trace. As hours turned into days, critical evidence
0:28.1	began pointing investigators toward a dark possibility, that something terrible had happened
0:33.6	just blocks from her home. Though police initially believed Kiana to be a runaway,
0:37.8	phone records and witness statements pointed to something far more sinister. But despite
0:42.4	blood evidence, suspicious renovations, and conflicting statements from a person of interest,
0:48.1	no arrests have been made in Kiana's case. And nine years after her disappearance,
0:53.6	there is still no trace of the bright,
0:56.7	friendly teenager. Did someone she trusted betray her that spring afternoon? What really happened
1:02.8	to Kiana Galvin? When a person goes missing, there's a special kind of pain in the not knowing.
1:08.4	I want to tell you the stories of those who never came home. Today, I want to tell you the story of Keanu Galvin. I'm Conan Gallagher. And I'm
1:16.0	Ethan Flick. And this is, and then they were gone. The
1:30.3	The Welcome back, everyone
1:57.6	Welcome back.
1:58.6	Thank you for joining us once again.
2:00.4	I'm Kona.
2:01.0	And I'm Ethan.
	...

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