Paul Elliott Part 2: Through the Window
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In August of 2007, 50-year-old Paul Elliott disappeared from Alliance, Ohio. According to Paul’s brother-in-law, Phil, Paul left home on his bicycle.
At first, Paul’s family believed he had likely gone to the rural trailer property where he sometimes stayed when he needed space. But when Paul’s son, Bryan, checked the property, the trailer was locked, and there was no sign of Paul or his bicycle.
Bryan checked the places Paul was known to go, contacted friends and family, repeatedly returned to the trailer property, and hung missing person flyers throughout town. But no one could confirm seeing Paul after the day Phil said he rode away.
Meanwhile, a strange rumor began to spread that Paul had gone to Alaska. No one seemed to know where the story originated, but somehow, it took hold. Some family members were told Paul was in Alaska, not that he was missing. For years, that rumor gave some people hope, while others questioned whether it was true at all.
As time passed, Bryan became increasingly skeptical. Paul had left behind his phone, wallet, identification, Social Security card, and even the backpack he usually carried when riding his bike, hardly the belongings of someone preparing to start over thousands of miles away.
Then, in 2013, nearly six years after Paul disappeared, Bryan made a discovery that changed everything. Inside Paul’s locked trailer, Bryan found Paul’s bicycle hidden in the back room. That discovery raised an entirely new set of questions. Had Paul hidden it himself? Had someone else put it there? And if the bike had been there all along, what did that mean?
This week, in Part 2, we follow what happened after that discovery: the renewed investigation, the search of the trailer property, cadaver dog alerts, the strange and shifting Alaska stories, and troubling details buried in the police file that Bryan had never been told.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, I can see him going somewhere, but he knew we were getting married and we have kids. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm a father now. |
| 0:19.0 | I just feel like after all this time, that he would have reached out, either through a letter or a phone call or some type of communication. |
| 0:30.6 | Because even when he was in the behavioral center, he sent me a postcard on my birthday and to just not have any type of contact. |
| 0:43.2 | In late August of 2007, Paul Elliott disappeared from Alliance, Ohio. |
| 0:49.5 | Last week, you learned about Paul's life and the events leading up to that day. |
| 0:53.9 | According to Paul's |
| 0:54.9 | brother-in-law, Phil, tools had been stolen from the property where Paul was living, and Phil |
| 0:59.9 | called the police to make a report. Years earlier, Paul had experienced a traumatic encounter with law |
| 1:05.6 | enforcement during a mental health crisis. That event left him with a deep distrust of police officers. Phil said that when |
| 1:13.3 | Paul learned that officers were on their way, he left the property to avoid interacting with them. |
| 1:19.1 | No one else reported seeing Paul after that time, and no one's ever been able to confirm what |
| 1:24.2 | happened after that. At first, family members believe that Paul had likely gone |
| 1:29.1 | to the rural property outside of town, where he kept a trailer and sometimes stayed for a few days |
| 1:34.1 | at a time. But when Paul's son Brian went out there to look for him, he found the trailer was locked, |
| 1:40.5 | and there was no sign of Paul or the bicycle that Phil said he had ridden away on. |
| 1:45.8 | Since Paul had left specifically to avoid contact with police, Brian worried that filing a missing |
| 1:51.5 | person report right away might push his father further into hiding if he was out there trying to |
| 1:56.6 | stay off of the radar. So instead, he searched on his own. Brian drove to the places Paul was known to go. |
| 2:03.7 | He called friends and family members, checked the trailer property again and again, and hung flyers |
| 2:09.4 | around town. But nothing led to Paul or even a single witness who reported seeing him after |
| 2:14.7 | Phil said he rode away on his bike. At the same time, rumors began to circulate that Paul had gone to Alaska. |
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