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

And the story I have for you today is about a young girl who seems to vanish just weeks

before she was supposed to graduate junior high. The search for her has led investigators

to one man, a man with a dark past and troubling tendencies. This is the story of Charmini Anandavelle.

It's the evening of Saturday, June 12, 1999, and a couple named Anandavelle and Vasanthomalar

are becoming uneasy. Their 15-year-old daughter, Charmini, was supposed to be home hours ago,

and they haven't heard from her all day. Now, today was a little different than normal days,

because this was supposed to be her first day at a new job answering phones.

So then, just call her up. Where is she working?

Well, here's the problem. I don't think her parents knew where she was working,

but even though they don't know where she is, there is someone who should.

You see, she got the job because a man who lives in their apartment complex offered it to her.

His name is Stanley Tippett, and he lives on the floor below them,

and he's actually well known in the building.

According to reporting by Michelle Shepard for Toronto Life,

he takes some of the resident's kids like swimming, he gives them martial arts lessons,

kind of stuff like that. Okay, I don't love this.

Obviously I'm a crime junkie, so maybe I'm a little biased, but it's kind of tough for me to hear

that and not think that this dude has some ulterior motives. Yeah, so even though he's,

at this guy's like only 23, he says he's a former cop, so they all kind of trust him because of that.

They even let him like patrol the unit as kind of this unofficial security guard.

So I think, you know, that's why they have no problem letting their kids go off with him.

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