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The Vanished Podcast

LaTania Janell Carwell

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.515K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

16-year-old LaTania Janell Carwell disappeared from Augusta, GA on April 17th, 2017 after leaving with her stepfather, Leon Tripp, around 1:30AM to help one of his friends who supposedly had car trouble. Leon also disappeared that night. This case took a shocking turn last week. Now, no one knows where to look for LaTania. This episode features Cathey Rhodes, the founder of Bring Our Missing Home.

*UPDATE*

On March 8, 2018 remains were located in a shallow grave on Golden Camp Road in Augusta, GA. On Monday, March 12, 2018 those remains were identified as belonging to LaTania Janell Carwell. Leon and Tanya Tripp are facing charges related to her disappearance and death.

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0:00.0

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0:16.0

I'm not eating, I'm not sleeping, I'm just worried about my family.

0:21.0

The past 11 days have been hard for the mother of 16-year-old Latanya Carwell.

0:26.0

If you have a cell, please call authorities to help my family get home.

0:31.0

Tanya Trips emotional plea comes after her daughter went missing from herself at

0:35.7

Gusta home in the wee hours of the morning on her 16th birthday. She left with her

0:40.7

stepdad 38-year-old Leon trip to help a friend Tanya trips his or her husband

0:45.2

only called by his first name as they left.

0:48.0

Hello and welcome to episode 79 of The Vanished. 16-year-old Latanya Jinal Carwell disappeared from

1:01.8

Augusta, Georgia after leaving with her stepfather Leon around 130 am on April 17, 2017.

1:09.0

As a story goes, Leon got a phone call from a friend in South Carolina who needed help after his car broke down.

1:18.0

Leon decided to bring Latanya with him to help him use the GPS. The two disappeared that night and the truck they were driving was found just about a mile away.

1:28.0

Leon was found this past week but Latanya remains missing. This is Latanya's story.

1:48.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob

2:11.2

Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

2:24.4

That's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer. It's terrific conversation,

2:31.4

reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes. So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts.

2:39.4

New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts or the Wondery app.

2:49.4

As most of you know, many stories come to me from families of the missing but often organizations who advocate for missing persons will ask me to cover some cases that need more attention.

3:05.4

A few days ago the organization bring our missing home asked me to feature Latanya's disappearance as an urgent case.

3:13.4

While Latanya's mom was initially speaking to the media to spread awareness about her daughter's disappearance, things took a strange and disturbing twist within the past week.

3:23.4

I spoke with Kathy Rhodes who's the founder of Bring Our Missing Home. She's been working on Latanya's case from the beginning and had become close with Latanya's mom, Tanya Trip.

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