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Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts. I've been racking my brain about this since she disappeared.

I had handed off flyers, I was gone to places where I knew she'd gone to before and asked her on there,

and you know, I've just never even got a cold leap.

Somebody like, oh, I saw her a couple weeks ago and nothing.

It's like she's a ghost.

Nobody had seen her.

We really don't know anybody that's seen her after she left the house.

There's no evidence of foul play yet.

I don't think they really have any suspect, suspect,

because right now it's still in some missing person case.

It's not a murder case or anything like that's

kind of one of those things that I think right now they're just hoping that something will come to light. I hope so too.

In late December of 2022, 30-year-old Lauren Wilhoite disappeared from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

Lauren spoke with family members over the phone on December 28th, and she was seen by her boyfriend leaving their home that same day.

It's believed that Lauren may have been going to stay at a hotel on Mannheim Road in the Melrose Park area in the days leading up to New Year's Eve, though in this case the facts are difficult to pin down.

After that, Lauren was never seen or heard from again.

Her family became alarmed in early January when her boyfriend called asking if anyone had heard from Lauren.

Since that day, Lauren's sister Michelle has been working diligently to piece together every clue she can find in order to figure out what may have

happened to her little sister.

I'm Marissa and from Wundery this is episode 422 of The Vanished, Lauren Will Hoyt's story. If you need a new addition to your weekly true crime lineup, there's a podcast you need to know about called Generation Y.

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