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And Then They Were Gone

Re-Release: Katelin Akens

And Then They Were Gone

Little Monster Productions

Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6747 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This episode was originally released in 2022.

In 2015, 19-year-old Katelin Akens was getting ready to start a new life. The teenager fell in love, and left her small Virginia town to move across the country to Arizona with her fiancee. She was living her life and making changes, but when her sister gave birth to a son that December, Katelin immediately flew home to meet her new nephew. The trip was a short one, only about four days. She had a plane ticket back to Arizona on December 5, but she never made it to the airport. Six years later, Katelin still hasn’t been found, but her family believes they know exactly who knows the full story.

If you have any information on Katelin Akens’s whereabouts, please contact the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office at 540-582-7115.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

In 2015, 19-year-old Caitlin Aiken's had graduated high school and was getting ready to start a new life.

0:09.7

The teenager fell in love and left her small Virginia town to move across the country to Arizona with her fiancée.

0:16.7

She was living her life and making changes, but when her sister gave birth to a son that December,

0:22.0

Caitlin immediately flew home to meet her new nephew.

0:25.9

The trip was a short one, only about four days.

0:28.9

She had a plane ticket back to Arizona on December 5th, but she never made it to the airport.

0:36.1

Six years later, Caitlin still hasn't been found, but her family believes they know exactly

0:41.2

who knows the full story.

0:44.4

When a person goes missing, there's a special kind of pain in the not knowing.

0:48.8

I want to tell the stories of those never came home.

0:51.2

I want to tell you the story of Caitlin Aiken's.

0:55.1

I'm Conan Gallagher. And I'm Ethan Flick. And this is, and then they were gone. The

1:13.6

The Welcome back, everyone

1:36.2

Thank you for joining us once again.

1:39.5

We are deep into season three now, by which I mean episode two.

1:42.9

I was going to say, are we doing things out of order?

1:47.2

No, we're not.

1:49.4

So yes, thank you so much.

1:51.5

I do want to give a shout out to the True Crime podcast subreddit because you sent me

1:58.3

that link, which I did not know you stocked Reddit.

2:00.9

Because I don't think you even have a Reddit account.

2:03.0

I don't.

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