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Renee Lamanna: The Woman From The Island

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Renee Martine Lamanna was a 35 year old from Fresh Meadows, NY. She was highly intelligent and fluent in many languages. On January 8, 1994, Renee’s sister took her to her home in Ocean City, NJ after Renee suffered a mental breakdown. But Renee managed to escape, running off. She was later seen at a restaurant. Then, over a year later at a car dealership. After that, she was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reneelamannamissing Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/renee-martine-lamanna NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/1232 Websleuths: https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/nj-renee-lamanna-35-ocean-city-8-jan-1994.38392/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Renee Lamanna, please contact the Ocean City, NJ Police Department at 609-399-9111 Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, websites, and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Renee Martin Lamana was a 35 year old from Fresh Meadows, New York.

0:04.0

She was highly intelligent and fluent in many languages.

0:08.0

On January 8th, 1994, Renee's sister took her to her home in Ocean City, New Jersey after Renee suffered a mental breakdown, but Renee managed to escape, running off.

0:19.0

She was later seen at a restaurant.

0:21.0

Then, over a year later later at a car dealership.

0:25.1

After that, she was never seen again.

0:30.5

I'm at Denzel, and this is unfound. Oh, So, I live on an island. Yes, I know it's called quote unquote

1:09.9

Madeira Beach and of course there is a beach there. But if you look at a satellite

1:15.2

picture you'll see the piece of land I live on is not connected to the mainland of

1:19.8

Florida by anything but man-made bridges. And this was no more evident than when Hurricane

1:25.4

Irma swept through in September 2017. If you want it off the island, you had to get

1:31.2

out before the drawbridges went up. If not, you were stuck. As bad as that

1:37.5

situation may sound, an island is just about the perfect situation if you are

1:42.2

looking for a missing person,

1:44.0

especially if you can start the search quickly enough.

1:47.0

There are only so many directions to go.

1:50.0

There are only so many modes of transportation to leave the island, and each of those ways is heavily monitored.

1:57.0

That all presupposes, though, that law enforcement cares to do anything.

2:02.0

In Renee Lamontas', she disappeared from an island. There were only three bridges off it. They could have been blocked. But the police did nothing. And witnesses say she made it to the mainland,

2:15.0

having been seen multiple times since 7 p.m. January 8th, 1994.

2:20.0

And all these years later, her family still searches for Renee, the woman from the island.

2:27.0

And now summary of the case, this is brought to you by my friend Megan Goodsight Charlie Project.org

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