When a young woman seemingly vanishes into the night, her parents will lose everything in their search to bring her home.

This is the Phoenix Colden story.

I'm again.

Hi, Megan. Hi.

Ah, so back to school we are.

Back to school we go.

It's going to be harder for you because you've been on your sabbatical.

Well, no more sabbatical for either of us for what another seven years.

Seven years.

Yeah, it's a long time.

I feel like it's seven years we might be working somewhere else, but I'm not sure.

Jordan will be in college.

Actually, Ethan will be going off to college. Yeah. Hannah will be in second grade. Like, yeah. It's crazy. Yeah. It's, it's a lot. You know what's funny though? How, how I've had, we've had two sabbaticals now. So that means 14 years have gone by since we've, oh, well, for me, 15 since I've been working at FDU. All right. Well, looking forward to another semester. Are you? I'm looking forward to another sabbatical. No, I'm just kidding. Yes, but either way, it was a great summer. I know you had a lot of fun in your little, what's it called a camper, Winnebago. The RV trip that we did for a week. Yes, yes. A week. Yes. It was great. I know. And you, I'm so glad you're done teaching with Columbia, though, because I missed you so much. I know. That was a lot of time. It was amazing. And so many of my upcoming cases are cases that I got from my students or that I taught in that class. So that that's great. That's actually nice to be inspired, too, by the students. I talked to your students one day. Remember, you phoned in. They seemed so excited and eager. You got to love, like, high school students going into college and, like, just being new on this. It's so cool. They didn't get my joke, though, because they, like, asked me a question. I'm like, oh, I'm going to phone a friend. Of course they did. Okay. And I'm like, no one knows that's from like a show. They're so young. They were born and like, I know. Let's not talk about that. Okay. It hurts my feelings. Okay, so let's do a little segue into today's episode.

Okay.

So as you know, of course, we've been covering a lot of listener requests lately. In fact, I think most of our cases. But today I'm

covering a case that I found myself. I felt like it was time to do a case that doesn't get a lot of

attention. I wanted to do a missing person case. So I did some research on my own, and that's when

I came across Phoenix's story. Okay. So let's go ahead and get into today's story.

Phoenix was born in California on May 23rd, 1988, as Phoenix Reeves, but her last name was later

changed to Colden after her mother, Goldia, married a man named Lawrence

Coldon.

Lawrence essentially raised Phoenix as his own daughter, adopting her, and this is when

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