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The Vanished Podcast

Patsy Clark

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.515K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Patsy Clark disappeared from her home in Little Rock, Arkansas after supposedly getting into a yellow cab on March 4, 1987. Her son, David Clark, has been on a quest for answers for the past 30 years. Join us to hear Patsy's story and learn who David suspects is responsible for his mother's disappearance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

I do not believe my mother left that hole under her own wheel and I don't believe she left their lie. My father is my number one suspect.

0:37.0

There's not been one word, one piece of evidence, no sightings, no contact attempts from my mother and that is absolutely 180 degree from how she operated.

0:56.0

She deserves to come home. All missing persons deserve to be found and brought home.

1:07.0

I totally believe they bought into what my father told them that she got in a cab, a ghost cab that didn't exist, a fire that didn't happen and they bought into that.

1:26.0

Hello and welcome to episode 68 of The Vanished.

1:31.0

As the story goes, 55 year old Patsy Clark was last seen leaving her residence and getting into a yellow cab outside of her home in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 4, 1987.

1:43.0

She was never seen or heard from again. I say this is how the story goes because we have no evidence to support that Patsy ever left her home alive or that March 4 was in fact the day she disappeared.

1:56.0

Her case was overlooked by the Little Rock Police Department and closed just a few years after her disappearance.

2:02.0

Patsy's son David has been searching for answers to what happened to his mother for the past 30 years, trying to piece together a puzzle when it seems that many of the pieces were lost many years ago.

2:13.0

This is Patsy's story.

2:26.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape and found me Rob Briden on my podcast.

2:46.0

In this series of Briden and I talk to among others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter and that's just a few.

2:58.0

We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer. It's terrific conversation, reminiscent, sweat appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

3:08.0

So do join me Rob Briden wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes of Briden and are available early and ad free on Amazon Music or by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery app.

3:38.0

And we're the host of Wondery's new podcast, Disantel, where in each episode we look at one of pop cultures most iconic celebrity foods.

3:45.0

The first season is packed with some messy pop culture drama like the conflict between black China and the Kardashians and now you'll get the whole story.

3:53.0

Listen to Disantel on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

3:58.0

The thing about Patsy's case is that we don't have a great timeline to go off of.

4:04.0

This happened long before the time of cell phones and social media where people were leaving digital footprints daily.

4:10.0

The story of the events leading up to Patsy's disappearance come from the one person who or son David thinks had a motive to harm her, his father.

4:19.0

This isn't just the story of Patsy's disappearance but it's also the story of her son's 30 year quest for answers.

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