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Lacey Buenfil: Up The Rabbit Hole

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2018

⏱️ 161 minutes

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Summary

Lacey Marie Buenfil was a 25 year old from Altoona, FL. She had a new job and was the mother of 3. On December 27, 2011, she was allegedly with Terry McDowell in the Ocala National Forest. Their truck got stuck in the middle of nowhere. Lacey walked for help. She was never seen again. Facebook: Where is Lacey Buenfil – https://www.facebook.com/groups/858261914275502/ https://www.facebook.com/laceybuenfil.missingperson Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/lacey-marie-buenfil NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/13822 Websleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/fl-lacey-buenfil-25-altoona-27-dec-2011.158701/ Article: https://www.ocala.com/article/LK/20141227/News/604149860/OS/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Lacey Buenfil, please contact the Lake County Sheriff’s Department at 352-343-9529. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Lacey Marie Buenfill was a 25 year old from Altoona, Florida.

0:04.0

She had a new job and was the mother of three.

0:06.8

On December 27, 2011, she was allegedly with Terry McDowell in the Ocala National Forest. Their truck got stuck in the middle of nowhere.

0:15.6

Lacey walked for help. She was never seen again.

0:21.8

I'm a Den and this is unfound. Oh, So, Do authors realize they've written something profound or lasting when they've written it.

1:03.0

When Tolkien wrote,

1:04.0

Not all who wander are lost.

1:07.0

Stephen King, get busy livin or get busy dying.

1:12.0

Mary Shelley, nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

1:18.0

And Billy Shakespeare, all that glitters is not gold.

1:24.0

Did they know how transcendent those words would be at the time?

1:28.0

Probably not.

1:29.0

Because I'm guessing these lines are memorable because they don't feel scripted or processed or

1:35.3

contrived. They just kind of happened. It also helps that the words ring true. Whatever the case, surely Lewis Carroll could have never guessed

1:45.2

that a short sentence he penned back in 1865 would end up becoming a popular

1:50.0

saying, almost to the point of becoming a cliche amongst those who are trying to solve mysteries.

1:56.4

Yet here we are.

1:58.4

And today we have the best example of that saying all of you know so well. A young woman allegedly goes missing in a forest, kind of like

2:06.5

Alice. But information collected contradicts that story. However, the rumors generated by those possibly involved contradict each other.

2:15.9

So how do we figure out what happened and go up the rabbit hole?

2:30.0

And now summary of the case, this is brought to you by my friend Megan Goodsight Charlie Project.org. Lacey Buenfill for most of her life was on the right path.

2:34.0

She was a friendly but possibly a bit naive girl who might have trusted people a little too much.

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