Lori Feltz
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
On December 26, 2016, 58-year-old Lori Feltz disappeared from Cynthiana, KY. When Lori was young, she was in a terrible car accident. This accident killed her younger brother, who was a passenger in the vehicle, and Lori suffered a traumatic brain injury. This accident would change the course of her life forever. Lori, as a result of this injury, had intellectual disabilities, short term memory loss, seizures and required a caregiver to help her with daily tasks and make sure she took her medication.
Around 9 AM on December 26, 2016, Lori was last seen leaving her house on Hick Hardy Road to walk up a path to go help her sister at the home next door. The path was only about 300 yards and this was a route she would walk on a regular basis for exercise. However, she never made it to see her sister. Her sister, Tricia, was expecting Lori and became concerned when she didn’t arrive but she couldn’t find Lori anywhere. Lori’s family members believe that it is possible that she became disoriented on her walk and flagged down a passing motorist to ask for a ride, but so far there have been no signs or clues to indicate what truly happened to Lori that day.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Lori Feltz please call the Kentucky State Police at 859-428-1212.
UPDATE- On September 17, 2020, the two unregistered sex offenders mentioned in Lori’s episode, Brendan Camous and Clinton Peterson, were finally apprehended. Acting on new information from Camous and Peterson, Kentucky State Police searched a wooded area on property not far from Lori’s home on September 28, 2020, and recovered human remains along with clothing. On October 6, 2020, the remains were identified as Lori Feltz.
You can follow Lori's case on Facebook at Finding Justice for Lori.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:22.0 | There was no sign of Lori and in that time period if she had been on the road, there would have been a sign. |
| 0:30.0 | I mean, they would have found her or somebody kicked her up. |
| 0:34.0 | So, please recall, they came out, they treated it, of course, as if she had somehow gotten confused and wandered off. |
| 0:46.0 | Because we couldn't fathom that anything bad would have happened to her. |
| 0:54.0 | There were goats and chickens and cows, but not very many people. |
| 1:00.0 | It's the morning after Christmas, though there's not even much traffic. |
| 1:05.0 | So, they got together a search team and canvased the area, talked to neighbors, |
| 1:15.0 | asked if they had seen this woman, got her name on the move that night. |
| 1:21.0 | I did an interview with them after dark that first night saying, |
| 1:27.0 | Lori could whistle loud and liked to, but always was told not to. |
| 1:33.0 | But if she was ever lost, she could whistle and we would know where she was. |
| 1:40.0 | And so I walked around for a long while, giving my own loud whistle, not hearing any response. |
| 1:51.0 | And this is one of my fears, but it's been realized. |
| 1:55.0 | She didn't know a stranger. She didn't understand danger. |
| 2:00.0 | And if somebody wore off for her ride, she'd probably take it. |
| 2:06.0 | And in fact, we believe that's pretty much what happened that morning. |
| 2:10.0 | Beyond that, it's also possible that she asked for a ride. |
| 2:16.0 | Lori attended an adult daycare facility in a nearby town, Monday through Friday. |
| 2:24.0 | She loved that place. |
| 2:27.0 | And in fact, she referred to it as her work. |
| 2:30.0 | And we also called it her work. |
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