Replay: Arianna Fitts

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

We are taking this week off but we wanted to take this opportunity to share a very important story that we first aired in 2020. Arianna Fitts disappeared in 2016, and her mother, Nicole, was murdered. Both cases remain unsolved today. In 2022, the FBI raised the reward in this case to $250,000. Once again, we wanted to shine a light on the story. Arianna has been missing for nearly seven years, and her family needs answers.

On April 1, 2016, 32-year-old Nicole Fitts told her roommate she had to run a quick errand to meet someone nearby at a restaurant. Nicole’s 2-year-old daughter, Arianna, had been staying with some babysitters in a nearby city while Nicole worked. Nicole had decided it was time to pick up her toddler after the babysitters made excuses for not giving Arianna back. She took some money from an ATM, went to pay the babysitters and retrieve Arianna. Nicole never came home. One week later, Nicole was found murdered in a San Francisco park. Her body was discovered in a shallow grave covered by a wooden board. Her daughter, Arianna, has never been seen again.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Arianna Fitts, please call the San Francisco FBI at 415-553-7400. If you have any information about the murder of Nicole Fitts, please call the San Francisco Police Department homicide division at 415-553-1145.

We will be back on Monday, March 6, with a new case from California.

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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.
0:14.0	We're taking this week off, but wanted to take this opportunity to share a very important story that we first aired in 2020.
0:22.0	Ariana Fitz disappeared in 2016, and her mother Nicole was murdered. Both cases remain unsolved today.
0:30.0	In 2022, police and the FBI raised their reward in this case to $250,000.
0:37.0	We wanted to shine a light on this story once again.
0:40.0	Ariana has been missing for nearly seven years, and her family needs answers.
0:45.0	We'll be back on Monday, March 6th with a new case from California. Thanks for listening.
0:52.0	I'm going to spend devastating. It's been a roller coaster.
1:03.0	A lot of times it's even unbelievable. Sometimes I don't even, I can't even fathom it. This is reality. This is real.
1:12.0	Anger, sadness, absolutely horrible. We need to be back home. We're devastated that her mom has gone.
1:21.0	The least they can do is return to Ariana to her family. That's where she needs to be. We just want her back home.
1:28.0	I want Ariana home, and I want people who are behind all of this for something to be done.
1:35.0	Too much time has gone by and we just need to be resolved.
1:42.0	On April 1, 2016, 32-year-old Nicole Fitz told her roommate that she had to run a quick errand to meet somebody at a restaurant nearby.
1:52.0	Nicole's two-year-old daughter, Ariana, had been staying with some babysitters in a nearby city while Nicole worked.
2:00.0	But Nicole decided it was time to pick up her toddler after the babysitters made excuses for not giving Ariana back.
2:08.0	She took some money from an ATM and went to pay the babysitters and retrieve Ariana.
2:13.0	One week later, Nicole was found murdered in a San Francisco park. Her body was found in a shallow grave covered by a wooden board.
2:22.0	Her daughter, Ariana, has never been seen again.
2:26.0	I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 217 of The Vanished. Ariana fits his story.
2:38.0	Hi, I'm Sarah Haggi, co-host of Wondery's podcast Scample Insers.
2:59.0	In our recent two-part series, Three Weddings and a Funeral, we dive into the story of a German con man who built an entire life on fake names, lies, and schemes.
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