Replay: Alexandria "Ali" Lowitzer
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
On the afternoon of April 26th, 2010, 16-year-old Alexandria Joy Lowitzer, or Ali as she was known, got off of her school bus across from her home in Spring, Texas. Ali, a sophomore at Spring High School, wanted to walk up to her new workplace, The Burger Barn. She had a paycheck to collect and she told her mom she might be able to pick up a shift that afternoon. Her mom, Jo Ann, was reluctant because Ali had only been working there a few weeks and she hadn’t walked there before. Ali pleaded with her mom until she gave in.
Two boys got off the bus with Ali and noticed she lagged behind, not walking as she usually would towards her home, but going the opposite way, out of the neighbourhood in the direction of the Burger Barn.
Ali didn't make it to The Burger Barn and was never seen or heard from again.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Ali Lowitzer, please contact the Harris County Sheriff's Office 713-221-6000.
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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. |
| 0:07.0 | I didn't know exactly what was going on, so I'm trying to play it kind of logically, |
| 0:15.0 | that okay, well she's probably gonna come home. She'll get ready for school and then she'll go to school, |
| 0:25.0 | and she'll get in trouble for being out all night or whatever, and then we'll take care of it after that. |
| 0:32.0 | She never showed up to school. She's not gonna come home, so she's probably gonna come home. |
| 0:38.0 | She'll get in trouble for whatever, and then we'll take care of it after that. |
| 0:43.0 | She never showed up to school, and I think it was at that point where both Joanne and I started to really panic, |
| 0:51.0 | and really started to believe that something terrible has happened. |
| 0:58.0 | A couple of the boys that got off the bus with her said that she had stopped there |
| 1:06.0 | and looked like she was texting on her phone and then turned to leave the neighborhood, |
| 1:11.0 | which would have been in the direction of the burger barn. |
| 1:14.0 | And that's the last that anybody has heard her from her or seen her. |
| 1:19.0 | There's been no activity on her cell phone since that day. |
| 1:26.0 | We've received hundreds, if not thousands of tips over the years, |
| 1:31.0 | and every one of them that they followed up on, and a lot of them are |
| 1:36.0 | look-alikes, a lot of them are just never came to fruition. |
| 1:42.0 | So it's exhausting. |
| 1:47.0 | There's gotta be somebody out there that knows something. |
| 1:52.0 | Why aren't they coming forward? |
| 1:56.0 | On the afternoon of April 26, 2010, 16-year-old Alexandria Joy Loitzer or Ali as she was known, |
| 2:05.0 | got off of her school bus across from her home in spring, Texas. |
| 2:09.0 | The small community just north of Houston was quiet after school, |
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