Mikelle Biggs: Taking The Reins

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Mikelle Diane Biggs was an 11 year old from Mesa, AZ. She loved Polly Pockets and Barbies. Late in the afternoon of January 2, 1999, Mikelle was riding her sister’s bike at the end of the street. Her sister left her and went inside. When she came back out 90 seconds later, Mikelle was gone. She was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikellebiggs/ Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/mikelle-diane-biggs NAMUS: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/5851/1/ Recent article: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/03/21/arizona-missing-girl-mikelle-biggs-sister-responds/444625002/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Mikelle Biggs, please contact the Mesa Police Department at (480) 644-2211. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volume 1 and 2 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, and other websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Michael Diane Biggs was an 11-year-old from Mesa, Arizona.
0:03.6	She loved Polly Pockets in Barbies.
0:06.4	Late in the afternoon of January 2nd, 1999,
0:10.0	Michael was riding her sister's bike at the end of the street.
0:13.4	Her sister left her and went inside.
0:16.0	When her sister came back out, 90 seconds later,
0:19.2	Michael was gone.
0:21.3	She was never seen again.
0:25.0	I'm at to do you. There comes a time in most children's lives. We don't know when it will be. We don't know
0:59.5	under what circumstances that it will happen. And we can't predict the seriousness of the
1:05.0	situation but at some point the relationship that we have with our parents will
1:09.6	change for many years they will lead us, give us advice, tell us what we can and cannot do.
1:18.0	Then, as if with a snap of our fingers, we suddenly become the ones making the decisions. We take the reins.
1:28.4	Whether it be because our parents have become mentally or physically incapacitated, or they just don't understand how things work in the 21st century?
1:37.0	Or maybe they've just been beaten down by life.
1:42.0	Getting to the point where we may personally have to decide
1:44.6	whether our mother or father lives with the help of a machine or dies by
1:49.2	shutting the machine off. And remember we as kids, we always wanted to run the house, didn't we?
1:57.0	Well today, you're going to hear about a young woman who's taking over the reins in regards to a disappearance.
2:04.7	For the first 10 years, her parents were the ones out there doing interviews, conducting
2:09.5	searches, and contacting the police. Now this young woman who was only nine at the time
2:15.8	is leading her parents and the rest of her family. She is making the decisions,
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