Replay: Amy McHale - The House on Chew Avenue - Where Reality and Fiction Collide
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 27 July 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired on January 26, 2026. Since this episode first aired, there have been significant developments in Amy’s case. Stay tuned after the original episode for more information.
On June 13, 2016, 44-year-old Amy McHale said goodbye to her mother and left her home in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nothing about that moment suggested it would be the last time her family would see her, but it was.
In the early morning hours of June 14, Amy called her daughter, Amanda, and left a voicemail. When Amanda listened to the message later that morning, it didn't raise any immediate alarm, but when she tried calling her mother back, the call went straight to voicemail. In the message, Amy said she was staying at her ex-husband's house, something she did from time to time.
At first, no one was overly concerned. Amy was an adult with her own routines, and her family believed she would return, as she always had before. But as hours turned into days with no word from Amy, concern quickly grew.
Amy's ex-husband told family members that she had been at his home when he went to bed on the night of June 13. When he woke the following morning, he said she was gone. From that point forward, there were no confirmed sightings of Amy and no clear answers about what happened to her.
A decade has passed since Amy vanished, and her loved ones continue searching for answers, hoping that someone who knows the truth will finally come forward.
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| 0:00.0 | We first covered Amy McHale's disappearance on January 26, 2006. |
| 0:06.7 | Since then, there have been major developments that have brought renewed attention to her case |
| 0:10.6 | and to the home she was last known to be at before she disappeared. |
| 0:15.2 | Stay with us through the end of this episode, |
| 0:17.8 | and then we'll walk you through everything that's happened and what it could mean for |
| 0:20.9 | Amy's case. |
| 0:27.7 | Honestly, at first, I had a really hard time. |
| 0:30.5 | I still have a hard time with this situation, and my feelings. |
| 0:34.0 | I don't even know if I was fully understanding what was going on. |
| 0:40.3 | I couldn't grasp the different things that people were saying. It doesn't make sense. |
| 0:42.3 | I just feel very confused. |
| 0:43.3 | And when I think about it, I get scattered minded. |
| 0:46.3 | It is different than being able to grieve the, God forbid, the loved one with cancer who passed. |
| 0:52.3 | It's been really hard. I mean, my grandmother is still not okay. |
| 0:57.0 | She's getting older now, so her physical ailments. |
| 1:00.0 | She was the one going around in Kensington, |
| 1:02.0 | which is not a good part of Philly, posting flyers. |
| 1:06.0 | She's the one who's staying on top of law enforcement and pushing. |
| 1:09.0 | And recently it's been more me. She's had to tell me, |
| 1:12.5 | and I need your help a little bit more with this. So now it's me that's trying to pick up those |
| 1:17.0 | pieces and keep my mom's name out there. But it's really hard when her story is not exactly the |
| 1:22.1 | cleanest story to tell. On June 13, 2016, 44-year-old Amy McHale said goodbye to her mother and left her home in South |
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