It's an outlier because I'm the only detective in this department, so I get everything from stolen by,

sickles all of it.

So this coming on my desk is rare because really and truthfully, being in a small small town people just don't disappear in these small

towns they may move on but somebody always know where they're at but just having a person that's

disappeared five years no one's seen him no law enforcement agents has come across them. No family members, no friends.

We really don't get a lot of dogs over here. We think we know what happened. And your podcast,

hopefully it's going to turn over a couple leaves and help us out. In early March of 2020,

35-year-old Michael Green left his home in Winfield, Louisiana.

It wasn't unusual for Michael to come and go, and a few days without hearing from him didn't

immediately raise concern.

But as the days stretched on, his absence began to feel heavier.

Michael was usually in touch, or at the very least, he was visible somewhere around

town. This time, he wasn't. Michael's sister sent him messages, but he didn't respond. That alone was

unsettling. In mid-March, his sister sent him a message through Facebook Messenger to tell him

that their mother was worried and to ask him to get in touch.

She could see that Michael's account was active, a small sign that he was still out there,

and then that too was gone. The account disappeared, deactivated. It vanished just like Michael

himself had. That was when his family knew something was wrong. They reported Michael missing to the Winfield Police Department,

and nearly six years later,

the question of what happened to Michael Green remains unanswered.

I'm Marissa, and from Audible,

this is episode 515 of The Vanished, Michael Green's story.

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