Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Deelia DeAmbra.

That's right, you guys. I wanted to bring on Deelia because this week's episode, first of all,

I mean, I just missed talking to someone, but this week's episode, especially, I had to have

someone to kind of dissect this with me because it is wild. But before that, I actually have

a special message from someone that you all have been missing. Hi, Crime Junkies. It's Fred.

I just wanted to hop on here and say thank you for all of the love that you've shown me in these

past couple of months. It has truly proven to me that there is no community like the Crime Junkie

community. You all are amazing. I'm feeling better. I'm healing. Not quite sure when I'm ready to

jump back into everything yet, but I mean, you guys know how important it is to me and Ashley,

that the story is get out there every week. So again, thank you so much for supporting me.

And so we're going to show while I've been focusing on getting stronger and getting healthy.

Again, thank you so much. And I love you guys.

Keep sending, Britt, your well wishes, everyone. Again, we're going to give her all the time she needs

to heal. The last thing we want to do is rush her back. But I echo what she said. Thank you all

for the support while she has been out. Thank you for continuing to listen to the show. I know

the episodes have just been a little bit different. The work we're still doing is so important,

though. But this is why I'm so excited to have Dilean on today because this case is a doozy.

It's a story about a teenage girl who got into a van in 1986 and was never seen again.

Now more than 35 years later, police are taking another look at her case, hoping to give her mother

some long awaited answers and justice. This is the story of Susan Robin Bender.

It's Sunday, April 27, 1986. And Patricia Chepco is worried. Her 15-year-old daughter,

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