Mackenzie Rae Marken - USA

The Missing

Darrell Brown

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we bring you the strange story of Mackenzie Rae Marken, a fourteen year old Wisconsinite, who vanished from her home in the city of Schofield, on October 11th, 2015. Almost ten years later, the authorities are no closer to learning what happened to her that day.

Mackenzie was fiercely independent, someone who was in a major hurry to grow up and see what the world outside Wisconsin had to offer her. She was also a digital native, a member of the first generation to grow up online, continually finding new ways to express herself via the internet. In fact, there are those who believe that Mackenzie’s social media activity, specifically the strangers we now know she was in contact with in the weeks and months before she vanished, played a role in her disappearance.

This episode hears from Mackenzie’s childhood friend Christina. Mackenzie was the first friend Christina made when she moved to Wisconsin from Oklahoma and the pair bonded over their shared love for emo music, youtube personalities and flannel shirts. Christina walks us through the events leading up Mackenzie’s disappearance, her own personal theories about what might have happened to her and how it felt to be interrogated by the police as a fourteen year old.

This episode is supported by Doe Network. They exist to appeal for answers in hundreds of missing persons cases worldwide. Visit their website The Doe Network to find more information about this and many other cases, which all need help. They believe the case of Mackenzie Rae Marken CAN still be solved.

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This episode is hosted by Ashley Loeb Blassingame.

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0:00.0	Some people spend their whole lives trying to get away from where they started.
0:10.0	Some people spend their whole lives trying to get away from where they started.
0:15.0	It doesn't matter if you're perfectly happy where you are.
0:20.0	For many of us, the pull of the unknown can be impossible to resist.
0:26.4	Mackenzie Ray Markin grew up in Schofield, Wisconsin, a city with a population of less than 3,000 people.
0:36.9	For the 14-year-old high school student, Schofield felt like it was perpetually four hours away from, well, everything.
0:47.5	Perhaps then it's unsurprising that for Mackenzie, the grass always seemed to be greener on the other side,
0:55.0	that she sought a way out, whether it was on her own terms or with the help of strangers on the internet.
1:05.0	Either way, her whereabouts have been unknown for the better part of a decade now,
1:11.0	and for those who love and miss her, the mystery of where she is and
1:16.1	whether she's even alive has haunted them ever since.
1:20.3	I'm Ashley Loeb Blasengame and you're listening to The Missing
1:25.7	A What's the Story Original Podcast series. This episode and all of the episodes in the United States and Canada are brought to you with the help of the Doe Network,
1:38.0	a not-for-profit volunteer organization dedicated to returning the missing to their families and giving the names
1:46.0	back to the unidentified.
1:49.0	With their help, we've set up a simple way for you to share any tips, ideas, leads, or information,
1:56.0	which can be passed to the relevant authorities. They believe that all the cases in this series could still be solved.
2:05.0	This is the missing, Mackenzie Ray Markin. McKenzie was my close friend. She was very full of life and cared about so much and I think that when she cared so much it
2:26.0	tended to hurt her sometimes.
2:29.4	Caring so much that it hurts is a sentiment anyone who spent even five minutes as a teenager can relate to.
2:41.0	At that age, each and every new experience feels impossibly grand in scale and
2:47.1	carries with it a wave of emotion that feels exhilarating and frightening all at once.
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