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The Vanished Podcast

Replay Case Continued: Angela Mack and Thomas "Mikey" Rettew - The Dead Man

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

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

4.515K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021. In early April, the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office announced that they had solved and closed the 2002 disappearances of 20-year-old Angela Mack and her son, Thomas “Mikey” Rettew. Our last episode explored the dramatic turn of events in Angela and Mikey’s mysterious disappearances since we originally aired their story in March. Today, we’re continuing our dive into this incredible, still developing story. "The Dead Man" explores who Clarence Krusen was, his criminal history, and many attempts to adopt children from struggling parents.

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0:00.0

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0:21.0

I've tried to like look from an outsider's perspective because

0:26.0

it's kind of hard for me, you know, going from somebody that I looked up to my whole life.

0:32.0

You know, that was an awesome person in my eyes.

0:35.0

This has been kind of difficult.

0:38.0

So I try to put myself in another position to look at it.

0:43.0

And it seems really odd, but I think it's more like he's dead.

0:52.0

And so if, you know, we can get a statement from somebody like it's easy to pin something on a dead man.

0:59.0

And I don't know. I will never know his side of the story.

1:04.0

And that's the part that sucks the most about it, I guess, as far as that goes.

1:10.0

Maybe it was easy to pull the case without looking too much into it because he's not here.

1:16.0

To them, I guess it's just being served. I don't know. I don't agree with it.

1:26.0

On April 9, 2021, the Fulton County Sheriff's Office announced that they had solved and closed the

1:33.0

2002 disappearances of 20-year-old Angela Mack and her son, Thomas Mikey, were two.

1:39.0

In our last episode, we explored the dramatic turn of events in Angela and Mikey's mysterious

1:45.0

disappearances, since we originally aired their story in March.

1:49.0

If you haven't listened to that episode or our first update, we encourage you to hit pause and

1:55.0

listen to those episodes first. And then come back to this one.

1:59.0

Today, we're continuing our dive into this incredible, still developing story.

2:04.0

I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is a special episode of The Vanished.

2:08.0

Episode 288, Case Continued, The Dead Man.

2:15.0

Well done. You've sorted through the embarrassment of riches that is the modern podcast landscape,

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