Missing 5-Year-Old Hayden Manis | Unreported for FIVE YEARS • Part 2

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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It is a story that we now hear all too often. A child is missing for years before anyone notices and reports it to authorities. We have covered many cases like this in the past - Harmony Montgomery and Oakley Carlson to name but two.

Hayden Manis is also one of these children.

Hayden was around five years old when he went missing from his home in Muncie, Indiana in either 2019 or 2020 (stories differ). He was not reported missing for four to five years.

Hayden’s extended family realized that he was missing in 2024. When Hayden’s father Dustin was questioned about his son’s whereabouts, he gave conflicting stories. Dustin died in December 2024 from a drug overdose and left no clue as to what happened to Hayden.

Last week, we covered Hayden’s background and the lead up to his disappearance. Be sure to listen to Part One of Hayden’s story first.

As of October 2025, Hayden remains missing.

Read Hayden’s blog here - https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2025/09/07/the-lonely-life-and-disappearance-of-hayden-manis/

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1:17.8	Welcome back to another episode of True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
1:21.5	It is September 18th right now, time of recording.
1:25.6	And this is going to be part two of our episode on hayden manis so if you
1:30.5	haven't listened to the first part you should go back one episode and listen to that one peep excuse
1:36.0	me she's being so rude she literally just put her paw up on my shoulder rude um so yeah go back
1:44.1	one episode listen to that one that has the first half, kind of the
1:46.7	background info of the disappearance.
1:49.2	Like we said in that episode, we decided to split this one in two parts because it's very
1:52.5	long.
1:53.3	A lot of people involved, a lot going on.
1:55.2	So kind of just seemed the easiest way for it to be digested was in two parts.
2:00.4	So this part is going to be about more of the
2:02.6	investigation and kind of the most up to date information that's out there. We also wanted
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