Missing in Japan | Patricia Wu-Murad

True Crime Society

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

American Patricia (Pattie) Wu-Murad was an avid world explorer and hiker. She had traveled to Japan in the past to hike the beautiful scenery. She returned again in March 2023 for another adventure and something went wrong.

Pattie left her accommodation on April 9 to resume her hike. When she didn't arrive at her next stop later that day as planned, the alarm was raised. Local authorities in Japan started looking for Pattie, but her family was not notified of the situation until April 14.

Her family raced to Japan and started their own search for her. They were met with red-tape, language barriers and a lack of resources. The search was fruitless and they finally had to stop searching for Pattie on May 30, as the typhoon season became imminent.

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss the vanishing of Pattie Wu-Murad.

Was Pattie lost to the elements following an accident? Or did she encounter someone sinister that day on the trail?

Read our blog for Pattie- https://truecrimesocietyblog.com/2023/06/14/american-patricia-wu-murad-missing-in-japan/

In this episode, we also discuss the recent Titan Submarine Disaster and some life updates. Please forward to (15:24) if you would like to go straight to Pattie's story.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The True Crime Society podcast contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:24.0	What's up guys, welcome to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
0:29.0	It's June 22nd and we just found out today about the submarine that everybody has been following the Titan Titanic, not technically a submarine.
0:42.0	I guess it's called a submersible that everyone in it is dead, unfortunately.
0:48.0	If you don't want to listen to us chat about the submarine and the orcas and our personal lives for 10 minutes or so,
0:57.0	there is a little time stamp that you can click in the episode description to just skip right to the story.
1:02.0	So do that instead of complaining.
1:05.0	Yeah, I'm not not a shocking outcome, but a horrific one.
1:10.0	Like I know everyone was making like I saw lots of memes and stuff online and it was kind of.
1:17.0	I don't know, like I got more serious as time went on essentially and there was no hope for them.
1:22.0	It's just a horrific, I can't even think of a worse way to die.
1:25.0	I feel like we've just opened this episode with, you know, a big, a big sad event, but yeah.
1:32.0	Well, the worst way to die would have been them sitting in their trap for three days just waiting today.
1:38.0	It seems like it just imploded where I'm sure they were dead before they even realized what was going on.
1:44.0	Yeah, so I'm assuming everyone probably knows about it, but basically people paid $250,000 each to go down to the ocean floor
1:52.0	to see Titanic remains in this tiny little shoddyly built submarine.
1:59.0	And that's why there's jokes because the whole thing to us poor people seemed absolutely ridiculous.
2:05.0	Like you could not pay me $250,000 to go on that because I hate the ocean.
2:11.0	I hate deep open water like that.
2:13.0	And I get claustrophobic and small cars.
2:17.0	Yeah, and they were meant to be down there for I've read eight to ten hours.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from True Crime Society, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of True Crime Society and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.