Kristopher Lewis

And Then They Were Gone

Little Monster Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

13-year-old Kristopher Lewis got off the bus with a friend on February 4, 2014. He was only a block away from his house, in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, when his friend last saw him. But Kris never made it home. Kristopher’s mother, Nina Cancel, was thrust into every parent’s worst nightmare, which was compounded by the utter disinterest that the Boston Police and the local media showed toward her and her missing son. In this episode, we talk not only about Kristopher, but about the larger systemic issues that have contributed to Kristopher still being missing today.If you have any information on Kristopher Lewis, please call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-The-Lost.You can see a full list of our sources along with photos on our website, AndThenTheyWereGone.com.Sources: Facebook: Kristopher Lewis Mother pushing for answers 2 years after 13-year-old went missing The Charley Project: Kristopher Bryan Lewis NCMEC: Endangered Runaways Facebook: Find Kristopher Black kids go missing at a higher rate than white kids. Here's why we don't hear about them Reddit: Kristopher Bryan Lewis-missing from Boston, Massachusetts since February 4, 2014 when he was 13 years old-"We have called all the news stations and they refuse to play the story. The police refuse to call me back and let me know what is going on with the search." Boston police seeking public's help in finding Kristopher Lewis, 14-year-old Dorchester boy missing since Feb. 4 Missing Person Alert: Kristopher Lewis Peas In Their Pods Black and Missing Foundation. Our Sponsors: * Check out Factor and use my code attwg50off for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com * Check out Greenlight and use my code greenlight.com/attwg for a great deal: https://greenlight.com * Check out Mood and use my code ATTWG for a great deal: https://mood.com * Check out Progressive: https://www.progressive.com * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/attwg for a great deal: https://www.quince.com * Check out Ruggable and use my code ATTWG for a great deal: https://ruggable.com * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/attwg for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Imagine that your child gets off of the school bus and has never seen again.
0:05.8	We've told stories on this podcast of just that scenario.
0:09.8	But imagine that it happens and no one seems to care.
0:13.7	That's the hell that Nina Cancel found herself in on February 4th, 2014,
0:19.0	when her 13-year-old son, Christopher Lewis, got off the bus but never made it home.
0:25.2	While Nina did what any normal parent would do in this situation, she looked for him, she called
0:30.5	police. The response that she received wasn't normal in terms of the stories that we've covered
0:37.0	previously. There is no
0:38.9	wide-scale search, no community banding together, no media coverage, just a shattered family
0:46.0	with an empty space and no answers. When a person goes missing, there's a special kind of
0:52.3	pain in the not knowing.
0:56.6	I want to tell the stories of those who never came home.
0:59.8	I want to tell you the story of Christopher Lewis.
1:01.3	I'm Conan Gallagher.
1:02.5	And I'm Ethan Flick.
1:04.9	And this is, and then they were gone. Music I'm This is probably going to end up being a short episode because there simply isn't a lot to dig into regarding this case.
1:44.0	Because as I mentioned in the intro it has garnered
1:46.9	very little media attention so like honestly I just I came across this case and it just made me
1:54.3	so angry and this is probably just going to be like a lot of me bitching about the system um
2:00.6	but I will say that when I
2:03.0	did look into this case and do the research for the episode, I did learn a few things that I think
2:08.8	are really important and I want to share with our listeners. And plus, even if I don't have a ton
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