Replay: Case Continued - Ruth Egnoski - Open Secrets
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ruth Egnoski’s story was difficult to piece together. Between fragmented newspaper archives and fading memories, there were gaps we feared might never be filled. We couldn’t even determine what year Ruth had disappeared.
We had submitted records requests to the Delavan Police Department, but at the time we produced the episode, we had received no response. Given the uncertainty and the reality that some departments never respond, despite open records laws requiring them to do so, we decided to move forward with the story.
Then, less than a month after the episode aired, we were stunned to receive a large police file from the Delavan Police Department. The documents inside answered many of the lingering questions we’d had just weeks earlier, and what we found was shocking.
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| 0:00.0 | It's always been in the family that Ruth ran away with a married man at 18 and was never seen again. |
| 0:21.7 | And that was just always the family lore. |
| 0:24.5 | They tried to pin it on my grandpa and literally didn't have anything. |
| 0:28.6 | I mean, they dug up the old house where the family used to live. |
| 0:33.5 | I mean, they harassed my family. |
| 0:35.2 | This is like where my grandparents kind of grew up. |
| 0:39.0 | It's the area where they both kind of grew up. |
| 0:41.5 | They moved out of the town. |
| 0:43.0 | I never had a conversation about this with my grandpa. |
| 0:46.5 | We kind of pretended it wasn't happening. |
| 0:49.3 | And then the fact that he was never arrested, it was like, okay, we all need to move on. |
| 0:55.5 | Last month, we shared Ruth Ignoski's story with you. It was a difficult story to piece together |
| 1:01.0 | from newspaper archives and what people could remember so many decades later. It felt as though |
| 1:06.5 | there were many holes in the story that we may never get a chance to fill in due to the passage of time. |
| 1:12.9 | We couldn't even nail down what year Ruth vanished. Maybe it was 1964, maybe 65, or 66. |
| 1:20.3 | No one could remember for sure. We had submitted several record requests to the Delvin Police Department, |
| 1:26.1 | but unfortunately, at the time that |
| 1:28.5 | episode was produced, we hadn't heard anything. We decided to move forward with production, |
| 1:34.0 | because sometimes we never hear back, despite open records laws requiring a response within a specified |
| 1:39.6 | period of time. Less than a month after our episode aired, we were shocked to receive a large police |
| 1:45.8 | file from the Delavan Police Department. The information contained in this file fills in a lot of |
| 1:51.1 | those gaps in the story and answers many of the questions that we had a month ago. Frankly, |
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