Mikelle Biggs
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On January 2, 1999 11-year-old Mikelle Biggs was playing outside with her 9-year-old sister, Kimber. Mikelle was on Kimber's bike while Kimber walked the dog on a leash. The girls could hear an ice cream truck in the distance, but Kimber got cold while waiting and went inside. When Kimber got back to the house, her mom told her to go back and tell Mikelle it was time to come in. Investigators estimate that Kimber was only gone for 90 seconds. In those 90 seconds, Mikelle vanished. In this episode, I'm joined by Kimber to discuss her sister's case.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Mikelle Biggs, please call the Mesa Police Department at 480-644-2211.
Kimber runs a Facebook page for Mikelle, you can follow here: Justice for Mikelle Biggs
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:18.0 | We didn't know anything about him. My parents weren't aware of him at all until later. |
| 0:24.0 | It was a month later that he attacked one of his neighbors and that's when he came on my parents' radar and that was because she survived the attack. |
| 0:34.0 | She came out and said, well, he did it. He took MacKell. |
| 0:40.0 | A 11-year-old MacKell Bakes disappeared from her Mesa Arizona neighborhood on January 2, 1999. |
| 0:54.0 | She had been playing outside with her younger sister, Kimber. MacKell was riding Kimber's bike while Kimber had their dog on a leash. |
| 1:02.0 | The two were waiting for an ice cream truck that they could hear in the distance. |
| 1:06.0 | Kimber started to get cold and decided to give up on the ice cream truck. |
| 1:12.0 | She returned home and her mom told her to go back and tell MacKell that it was time to come in. It was getting dark. |
| 1:18.0 | Investigators estimate that Kimber was only gone for about 90 seconds. |
| 1:24.0 | And in that 90 seconds, MacKell disappeared. |
| 1:28.0 | Kimber found her bike on the ground with the tires still spinning and the quarters that MacKell had been holding for the ice cream truck were on the ground not far from her bike. |
| 1:38.0 | What happened to MacKell in those 90 seconds? She has now been missing for almost 20 years and no trace of her has ever been found. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 123 of The Vanished. |
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| 3:19.0 | Kimber contacted me several months ago to see if I would cover MacKell's case. She's been pushing really hard for answers over the past few years. |
| 3:28.0 | I was already aware of MacKell's case because it's one that I personally have followed for many years. |
| 3:33.0 | There's something so puzzling about how a person can be taken in such a short time frame without anyone seeing or hearing a thing. |
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