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Already Gone Podcast

Mini - Missing Laurie Depies

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

It's another mini! This time, we look at the disappearance of Laurie Jean Depies from Menasha, Wisconsin, on August 19, 1992.

Written by Charity Dodd and Nina Innsted. Audio production by Bill Bert.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours.

0:04.0

Right now there is no trace.

0:06.0

Investigators say evidence leave them to believe that she's dead.

0:09.0

Stick my nose back on the trail. That's all I can do.

0:13.0

This is already gone.

0:15.0

Already gone.

0:17.0

Already.

0:18.0

All ready. All right.

0:31.2

Lori Deppis, a 20-year-old college student, was looking forward to a relaxed evening with her boyfriend and a few friends after work on the night of August 19, 1992.

0:42.1

After closing up the store she worked at just before 10 p.m., she walked to her car with a co-worker and drove to her boyfriend's apartment complex. Around 10.15 p.m.,

0:49.3

her boyfriend and friends heard the familiar sound of Lori's car, with its loud muffler, pulling into the lot.

0:57.6

But Lori never came inside, and she was never seen again.

1:03.6

Come with me to Wisconsin, where we explore the perplexing disappearance of Lori Deppis,

1:09.8

a case with few concrete leads and a persistent

1:12.5

question mark that has haunted her family and investigators for decades.

1:37.3

Lori Deppis, also known by her nickname, L'Oriela, was a young woman full of life.

1:47.1

Born September 17, 1971, to Mark Deppis and Mary Wagner, Lori grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin. She graduated from Appleton High School East in 1990. Those who knew Lori remember her fondly. Her father, Mark, described her as

1:56.3

easygoing and possessing a sense of adventure. Her mother, Mary, remembered her as sweet, loving, fun,

2:04.7

smiling, and full of life. Friends described her as fun to be around, strong-willed, and someone

2:11.4

who enjoyed working with others. One friend simply said she was everything good in a person.

2:19.3

The day Lori disappeared, she was working a shift at the graffiti store located at the Fox River

2:24.8

Mall in Grand Shoot.

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