Lawrence "Larry" Goodman

The Vanished Podcast

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🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In late December of 1978, 15-year-old Larry Goodman disappeared from Park Ridge, New Jersey. His mother left home that day to go shopping and asked Larry if he would like to go along with her, but he declined. When she arrived home, Larry was gone. His mother reported that he had left home wearing a red flannel shirt, jeans, a denim jacket, sneakers and had $30 in his pocket. Investigators spoke to the teen's friends, teachers, and parents, but no one knew where he may have gone. Larry was a good student, and there didn't appear to be anything in his life to run from. There were articles in the local paper detailing Larry's mysterious disappearance. The local police stated they had run down every lead and hoped to appeal to the public for information. Everyone was shocked when Larry reappeared 27 days later on his 16th birthday. Larry told his mother he had been hundreds of miles away in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The police closed the case now that he was home safe, but that wouldn't last long. Soon, Larry was gone again. Everyone assumed he had run away from home again and would return soon. This time, there were no articles in the newspaper about Larry Goodman. He never called or came home, and 45 years later, Larry's case remains unsolved.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon music.
0:04.1	Download the app today. Larry sort of came back to life for me again the last couple of weeks and I'm a pretty solid person I don't get
0:25.4	real emotional but it still it's not as easy as it once was people tell you when you
0:29.7	get older that you're going to be more emotional and they're not lying.
0:32.8	I haven't had a day that I haven't thought about Larry since 1979.
0:37.6	There's some days where I don't think about him as much, but there's some days where I think
0:40.9	about him a lot.
0:42.3	I think subconsciouslyly there's still something missing in my life
0:46.0	from not knowing what happened to Larry. Sure I would love to have him come back alive and everything,
0:51.7	but at this point I would love to just know what happened.
0:57.0	In late December of 1978, 15-year-old Larry Goodman disappeared from Park Ridge, New Jersey.
1:03.0	His mother had left home that day to go shopping, and she asked Larry if he would like to go along with her.
1:08.0	But Larry declined.
1:10.0	When she arrived home, Larry was gone.
1:12.0	It was presumed that he had left home, Larry was gone.
1:13.0	It was presumed that he had left home wearing a red flannel shirt, jeans, a denim jacket, sneakers,
1:18.5	and had $30 in his pocket.
1:21.3	Investigators spoke to the teen's friends, teachers, and parents, but no one had any clue where Larry may have gone.
1:27.0	He was a good student and there didn't appear to be anything in his life to run from.
1:31.0	There were articles in the local papers detailing Larry's mysterious
1:35.0	disappearance. The local police stated that they had run down every lead and were hoping
1:40.0	to appeal to the public for information.
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