Pearl Pinson
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
15-year-old Pearl Pinson was walking to her bus stop in Vallejo, California on the morning of May 25, 2016 when she was violently attacked and abducted by 19-year-old Fernando Castro. Castro was later killed in a shootout with police but Pearl is still missing. Law enforcement has been retracing his steps after her disappearance but he traveled hundreds of miles before they caught up to him. The question that still remains is what happened to Pearl? If you have any information about Pearl's case, the Solano County Sheriff's tip line for Pearl is 707-784-1963. Her family can be contacted through [email protected] or 925-812-2059.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:10.0 | The layup police 911, what is your emergency? |
| 0:13.0 | This kid came running out from the overpass on the whole nature. |
| 0:16.0 | He's running up to our car. |
| 0:18.0 | I think that this guy was trying to rape this girl and he shot her. |
| 0:21.0 | He shot somebody? |
| 0:24.0 | And so she used to sit the bus to get there, the school bus, and she was going there. |
| 0:31.0 | And from what Winnitha says that Fernando was trying to get at her. |
| 0:35.0 | And she kept saying no, leave me alone and shot her, try to walk away. |
| 0:39.0 | And that's when he grabbed her. |
| 0:43.0 | Salano County Sheriff's Investigators are looking for a teenager seen yelling for help as a man pulled her away. |
| 0:49.0 | 15-year-old Pearl Pinson was last seen this morning at the I-780 pedestrian overcrossing in Baleo with blood on her face. |
| 0:57.0 | Witnesses identified 19-year-old Fernando Castro as the one who was pulling her while he held a gun. |
| 1:05.0 | An amber alert has been issued for Pearl Pinson for the state of California and is presumed to be an extreme danger. |
| 1:13.0 | The winding walkway where the 15-year-old was last seen Wednesday morning is still stained with her blood. |
| 1:32.0 | She is still missing at this point and we're reaching out to the public for any information they can offer us. |
| 1:43.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 76 of The Vanished. |
| 1:48.0 | 15-year-old Pearl Pinson was abducted on her way to catch a school bus in Vallejo, California on May 25, 2016. |
| 1:56.0 | Several people witnessed 19-year-old Fernando Castro abducting her at gunpoint that morning, but they were unable to stop the violent attack. |
| 2:04.0 | You may have heard about Pearl's case when it first happened because it garnered national media attention, but that quickly faded after the death of her abductor. |
| 2:12.0 | A major complicating factor in her case is that her abductor traveled hundreds of miles after he took her. |
| 2:18.0 | Where do you even begin to look when there are hundreds of miles between where someone went missing and where their perpetrator was apprehended? |
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