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I know my great-grandmother left it earth, wanting to know what happened to her daughter.

Who knows if she's alive, she could have been at my grandmother's funeral. And we don't know. And it's like she could have been at Linda's funeral and we didn't know.

It's like, I can love pastor and I don't know what she looks like or who she is. We need answers. We need answers from the police department.

We need answers from whoever is still alive. From the APS, we need those answers. And I feel like I'm not stopping until I get those answers.

Every week, we pass by the stories that take up your news feeds and bring you the cases of people who are missing and haven't been given the attention their story is due.

But what if we told you a story about a young woman of color in Omaha, Nebraska, who was only 12 years old when she was named in a 1970 federal ATF affidavit, as having reportedly seen a large collection of foreign-made firearms and explosives, which she described in intricate detail.

How would a young pre-teen know so much about weapons and explosives and to call the ATF instead of 911 or her local police department?

How would she know that she would vanish just two years later and be almost entirely erased from existence for the next 50 years?

Well, she didn't. And that's why we're sharing her never before told story with you, which like many we've shared are true events that really are stranger than fiction.

Amarissa and from Wondery, this is episode 313 of The Vanished, Mariala's Clarks Story.

I'm Candace DeLong, host of the podcast Killer Psychie. And in our newest season, we dissect the thoughts and behaviors of the most violent figures in history.

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If you look up Mariala's Clark online, you won't find much about her. But you will come across some other names that pop up continuously. And are the only real tie anyone can find to Mariala's.

Mariala's was just barely 14 at the time of her disappearance, having turned 14 in May, three months before she vanished.

By all accounts, she was a typical teenage girl. She enjoyed the company of her siblings and extended relatives.

She had friends she liked to spend time with and was looking forward to the upcoming eighth grade school year. There isn't much more we know about Mariala's.

But she sounded to us like any teen growing up in a large family. The truth is, if you choose to believe what we're going to share with you in today's story, Mariala's life in the years leading up to her disappearance was far from normal and almost beyond being believable.

Every week we search for the truth, even when it's buried in newspaper archives, police records, or simply in the memories of family members.

There's still many gaps in the story of her life and disappearance. But we've researched every detail we can find in order to tell her story, one so deserving of being shared after being hidden away for so long.

In order for us to share with you would happen to her. We have to take a look at what was taking place in Omaha during the 1960s and 1970s.

The time period when Mariala's was growing up, we spoke with our cousin Dennis, who was close and aged to Mariala's and who had his own experiences during this time. Dennis gave us a glimpse of what was taking place.

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