Missing in Michigan: Chris Temple

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

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

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Update - 11-13-23 he's still missing

On Earth Day (April 22) 1990, 17 year old Chris Temple went with friends for a bonfire at Rose Lake Research Area in Bath Township Michigan. Around 9 p.m. Chris walked away from the bonfire, never to be seen again. In the almost 30 years since he vanished, there have been rumors, stories and speculation, but no evidence leading to the whereabouts of Chris Temple.

If you have information about the disappearance of Chris Temple, please contact the Bath Township Police department at (517) 641-6271

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0:00.0	You are listening to the already gone podcast sharing stories of a missing, the
0:08.6	murdered, the mysterious, and the lost.
0:27.0	In May of 1990, 34-year-old, Pae Tran Kowski vanished from along Interstate 96 near Fowlerville, Michigan. She'd been in the Detroit area earlier in the day to drive her mother, Artis, to the airport, dropping her off just before noon.
0:36.3	Paige stopped off to visit a friend, then she was seen in a party store around 2.30 p.m. on Ford Road
0:41.9	in Canton. The clerk at the party store remembered
0:45.1	Paige because they asked about the distinctive necklace she wore. From
0:49.6	there, Paige likely traveled north on Interstate 275, then headed west on Interstate 96, heading
0:58.2	away from the Detroit area toward Lansing. Multiple drivers later reported seeing page in her vehicle on I-96, but no one can explain why her car,
1:10.0	an Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Calais was left on the side of the freeway, still running, with her purse and shoes inside.
1:18.0	The mystery of what became of the tall slender blonde with the wide smile is a popular topic of discussion on message boards, but her disappearance remains a mystery.
1:29.0	Her mother, artist Rancoski, became a tireless advocate for families impacted by crime.
1:36.0	Artists passed away in 2017, without ever learning the truth about what became of her beloved daughter.
1:45.3	As I said, the Rancoski case is a favorite of online discussion boards and her story is shared
1:50.2	in the paper almost every year around the anniversary of her disappearance.
1:55.4	We are fascinated by her story.
1:58.7	But Paige wasn't the only person to vanish under mysterious circumstances that spring.
2:04.7	Just a month before she disappeared, there was another case, this one involving a teenage
2:09.3	boy from the Lansing area. Christopher Temple was the oldest of John and Tani Temple's three children.
2:17.0	In April of 1990 he was a senior in high school.
2:23.0	Chris, as he was known to his friends, had a good relationship with his parents.
2:28.0	And his father stated that Chris knew that if he needed his folks, he could call them and they would be there for him.
2:34.1	Well Chris didn't always get along well with his mother and sister
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