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Crime Junkie

MISSING: Jennifer, Sidney, & Monique

Crime Junkie

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True Crime

4.7358.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When a young mom and her two small daughters disappear without a trace from Topeka, Kansas, in May 2000, her family goes on a decades-long hunt for answers. But right in the middle of our reporting, the family gets a huge tip that could change everything.

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0:00.0

Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt.

0:04.2

The story I have for you today is the 25-year-old mystery of a young woman who walked out of her mom's house with her two young children, never to be seen again.

0:14.0

But after decades of silence and literally during our reporting, the family got their first real tip in a long time, sparking

0:22.5

new hope for answers to what happened to the trio all those years ago.

0:27.6

This is the story of Jennifer Lancaster and her daughter's Sydney and Monique Smith.

0:33.4

Music I'm going to be. I'm going to be. And It's around noon on May 13, 2000, when Vicki Lancaster starts thinking that something might be wrong.

1:12.4

Her 20-year-old daughter, Jennifer, and her two little girls, Sydney and Monique, didn't come

1:16.2

home last night. Jennifer's a single mom, the three of them, live with Vicky, and Jennifer

1:21.3

relies on her mom for help, especially at night because Sydney is only 14 months old, and Monique

1:26.7

is a newborn. Like Jennifer gave birth to her

1:29.2

just five weeks ago. In those five weeks, she has never gone MIA. So like I said, by noon,

1:36.4

she knows something is up. So she has Jennifer's younger sister, Jessica, call the father of her

1:42.7

girls. He and Jennifer are no longer together, but they all live

1:45.9

in Topeka, Kansas. And while he's not super involved in their lives, Jennifer's family thinks that,

1:51.1

I mean, it's worth giving him a call anyway, right? But Monique and Sidney's dad says that he hasn't seen

1:56.4

or heard from Jennifer. Doesn't know where she is, doesn't know where the girls are, and the family does believe him.

2:02.7

Vicky told our reporter, at this point, she starts thinking back to her last interaction with

2:07.8

Jennifer the night before.

2:09.5

And she remembers that she had one of the girls' quilts in a bag when they walked out of

2:14.8

the door at 8 p.m.

2:16.3

Like they'd all just gotten back home from dinner with Vicki's parents and Jennifer was

2:19.6

headed out again.

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