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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Lost in Midland: Where is Caitlin Denison?

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In January 2018, 19-year-old Caitlin Denison boarded a plane from Reno, Nevada to Midland, Texas. The following day, she briefly spoke with her sister but hasn’t been heard from since. Though the man she traveled to Midland with was found and questioned after Caitlin was reported missing, Midland authorities had no cause to arrest the man – no evidence that he’d harmed the missing young woman. Months after Caitlin vanished, a video that went viral raised the family’s hopes that she’d been found, but those hopes were dashed as that mystery unfolded. The following year, a potentially grim discovery further sullied those hopes. Caitlin Marie Denison is still missing.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Caitlin Marie Denison please contact the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Missing Person’s Clearing House at 800-346-3243 or Midland Crime Stoppers at 432-694-8477.

Please consider donating to the fund to find Caitlin at gofundme.com/f/help-find-caitlin-denison

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0:00.0

The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion

0:05.3

is advised.

0:07.9

In January of 2008, 19-year-old Brianna Zanino Denison was visiting her home in Reno, Nevada

0:15.2

during winter break from Santa Barbara College in California, where she studied psychology.

0:22.2

On the night of Saturday, January 19, Brianna accompanied friends to a party at Reno's

0:28.0

Sands Regency Hotel and Casino.

0:31.8

The night was a normal one, Brianna and friends party delayed until returning to one

0:36.8

friend's home, just off the University of Nevada's campus in the wee hours of the next

0:41.9

morning.

0:43.4

Brianna fell asleep on the couch while her friend Katie retired to her bedroom for the

0:48.9

night, at around 4 a.m.

0:52.2

Katie woke up about 9 a.m. on Sunday, January 20, 2008, groggy from the previous night's

0:59.4

party and the short night of sleep.

1:03.3

She noticed Brianna wasn't on the couch and after looking around the rest of the home,

1:08.4

realized that her friend wasn't there at all.

1:12.2

When Katie noticed a small blood stain on the pillow Brianna had used while sleeping

1:17.0

on the couch, she quickly called her friend's parents and then police.

1:22.9

Brianna's shoes, purse and cell phone were left behind.

1:27.8

Over the next few days, the Reno police combed Katie's home for clues.

1:33.3

They determined that the blood found on the pillow belonged to Brianna Denison and lifted

1:38.4

touch DNA from the front door knob, determined to belong to an unknown male.

1:44.6

DNA lifted from the couch where Brianna slept, too, was discovered and was linked to

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