MISSING: Denise Pflum

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🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On a Friday afternoon in 1986, 18-year-old Denise Pflum leaves her home in Connersville, Indiana, to go searching for a purse she had left at a party the night before. When she doesn’t return home, it’s just the beginning of a nightmare that will haunt her parents for over thirty years.

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0:00.0	Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt. And the story I have for
0:06.3	you today is one that probably could have gone the way of so many other cold cases, a
0:12.5	little less attention year after year until finally forgotten completely. But instead,
0:18.8	this case has stayed alive for over 37 years, thanks to the tireless efforts of two parents
0:25.4	who have never given up the hope that they'll one day know what happened to their daughter.
0:30.3	This is the story of Denise Flum.
0:55.4	It's March 28, 1986, and Judy Flum is getting home from her job at the local bank. Now, it's
1:12.6	like the middle of the day. It's good Friday, but the bank is closed for this like weird three-hour break
1:17.7	kind of in the middle of the day for the religious holiday. It's from like noon to three. And on this
1:22.6	day, the weather is beautiful and warm. It's one of those days when you can just tell when
1:27.9	her is on its way out. Well, when Judy gets home, it's just a little after 12, and her 18-year-old
1:33.8	daughter, Denise, is actually getting ready to leave. Because you see the night before, Denise
1:38.3	had been at the spring break bonfire party out in this field, but at some point during the party,
1:43.6	she lost her purse. And so now she's planning to go back to where this happened at and see if she
1:49.0	can find it. So she tells her mom that she had asked a few friends if anyone could go with her,
1:53.5	maybe to help her search, but everyone is busy, so she's just going to go it alone. So Denise
1:58.3	heads out in her parents' Buick at around 12.30, and Judy starts doing some work around the house,
2:03.7	taking advantage of her time off to just get some things done. Now, here's where my source material
2:08.6	kind of varies a bit. Most of what I read said that hours start to go by, and that eventually,
2:14.4	Judy has to leave again, and Denise still isn't home when she leaves. But other sources say that
2:19.4	not even an hour after Judy got home, which would have been around like one o'clock, there's a knock
2:24.2	at the door. And the person at the door is Denise's cousin holding Denise's purse in their hand.
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