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The Vanished Podcast

Lexy Anne Stacy

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

🗓️ 3 December 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Lexy Anne Stacy was a kind-hearted and independent-thinking young woman raised by two loving parents in Colorado's eastern plains. At 21, Lexy's BFF was her mother, Cindy, and she had three years in at the Westminster Walmart, where was named Employee of the Month, was well-liked, and made easy friends. Very much her own person, Stacy's tattoo sleeves and make-up heavy aesthetic were extensions of her vibrant and cheerful personality. But Lexy's technicolor world dimmed after she met Daniel Perkins on her 21st birthday. Perkins, a self-professed erudite and ladies' man, soon wreaked havoc in the Stacy household, driving a wedge between Lexy and her parents, and eventually Lexy and her friends. In the spring of 2015, Perkins gave Lexy a laptop to pawn because he didn't have an ID. What he didn't tell her was that he'd stolen it from her friend's house. Soon, a felony warrant was issued for her arrest. Things only got worse. Despite his previous failures as a criminal, Perkins robbed a bank in late May 2015, and was swiftly arrested. Nevertheless, Lexy exploited a clerical error to spring her sweetheart from the pokey. They've been on the run ever since. Where they are is anybody's guess. In late July 2016, a Missouri woman named Sheena Cox attempted to extort $2,000 from Lexy's heartbroken parents in exchange for information on their daughter's whereabouts. Disturbingly, Sheena implied Lexy was being held against her will, but records also show Sheena has been embroiled in a variety of real estate schemes. This week's investigation traces Lexy's whereabouts to a faux-utopia called Astral Valley, where Cox and Co. masquerade as peace lovin' hippies but may very well be involved in darker dealings behind the scenes? How can two cash-poor kids travel unnoticed for so long? We explore these questions and more in this episode of The Vanished. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.7

We were so close and did everything together and

0:15.1

when fishing and camping when we could and

0:18.6

I don't know for something like this to happen all of a sudden it just ended. I feel like some of you just

0:23.1

stuck your hand in your chest and rip your heart out of that guy.

0:26.7

Why? This took this one guy to do it and totally just

0:31.6

ruined all family's life.

0:36.0

You robbed the bank, went back home like nothing ever happened.

0:40.8

Especially when she's supposed to be sort of a gypsy, hippie, kind of person

0:45.2

and those type of people should be the caring piecele. I mean if you're that, if you're showing

0:51.3

the way you are that way, why would you be with holding information from a family that's hurting

0:57.7

when you're you know they're hippie generations like well you're caring and this and helping people out.

1:02.0

Why would you do that to somebody?

1:05.7

We just want Lexie back. We want to know she's okay. I want to know she's eating,

1:11.4

you know, sleeping, you know, it bothers me every day.

1:15.2

I can't believe all the non-help that can't believe it. People go missing all the time.

1:23.8

If they're over 18 you're pretty much on your own and there you go.

1:31.3

Hello and welcome to episode 55 of The Vanished.

1:36.3

21-year-old Lexie Stacey disappeared from Westminster, Colorado on May 31, 2015.

1:43.5

Just days after her boyfriend, Daniel Perkins robbed a bank.

1:48.0

Dan Perkins is considered a fugitive while Lexie is considered a missing person.

1:52.8

There was no trace of either Dan or Lexie until this summer when alleged pictures of the two

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