Replay: Jimmy Don Robinson
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
On the night of October 1, 1976, just one week after celebrating his 21st birthday, Jimmy Don Robinson vanished from Elmore City, Oklahoma. Though he no longer lived at the family home, Jimmy stopped by around midnight. His mother had just returned from a late shift and was preparing dinner. Jimmy chatted briefly with his family, and during that time, they noticed an unfamiliar man sitting in the passenger seat of Jimmy's car. Jimmy didn’t say who the man was, only that he was giving him a ride and would be back in about 30 minutes. Jimmy was never seen or heard from again.
Now, nearly 49 years later, Jimmy’s loved ones are still searching for answers about that night.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Jimmy Don Robinson, please contact the Garvin County Sheriff's Office at (405) 238-7591 or Garvin County Crimestoppers at 1-855-211-STOP.
If you have a missing loved one that you would like to have featured on the show, please fill out our case submission form.
Follow The Vanished on social media at:
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Stuff here in Oklahoma gets covered up. |
| 0:14.2 | When they come to talk to my mom about my brother when she reported her medicine, |
| 0:19.1 | they more or less told her to be better for her to leave things alone. |
| 0:22.6 | My mama was a 36-year-old woman with six kids. A husband paralyzed. She was worried about the rest of her kids, |
| 0:30.1 | not knowing what happened, what he was involved in. What could happen into the family if she was to get a lawyer. |
| 0:38.3 | It was just complete hell. |
| 0:41.3 | It was fear. |
| 0:43.3 | It was loss. |
| 0:44.3 | It was grief. |
| 0:46.3 | Not getting any help. |
| 0:48.3 | Feeling like you had to go into the shadows to look for your son |
| 0:52.3 | because of what was the rumors that were around town, |
| 0:57.7 | you know, all the way from the cops involved and the sheriff and just horrific rumors. |
| 1:03.6 | And then I went through school with the scary stories that the other kids would tell. |
| 1:07.9 | It became like an urban legend. |
| 1:09.8 | Don't go swimming in the lake because, you know, all of a sudden, headlight will come on. |
| 1:13.6 | And the ghost of Jimmy Don Robinson, and you go through hearing rumors, being blown apart with |
| 1:20.6 | a machine gun, to acid being used, being burned. |
| 1:25.6 | I mean, you hear all these things to become urban legend to be a story time scary |
| 1:31.0 | movie in October for your Halloween thrill or whatever you want it to be. That was my brother. |
| 1:36.4 | This is the Otis co-case of Garvin County. It's been a mystery to this day to each and everybody |
| 1:42.8 | and it's a weekly that I have people at. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.