Replay: Ruth Egnoski
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sometime between the summer of 1964 and 1966, a young woman named Ruth Egnoski vanished from Delavan, Wisconsin. The exact year is unclear, but she would have been between 18 and 20 years old at the time. Her family says they reported her missing to local police, but no search was ever conducted. A private investigator later claimed Ruth had boarded a bus to Chicago.
Then, strange clues began to surface. In the 1970s, Ruth’s Social Security card mysteriously appeared in the office of a local school custodian. In the 1980s, luggage was found hidden in the ceiling of the same custodian's office, and that custodian just so happened to be Ruth's stepfather.
Could these discoveries point to a chilling connection? The case heated up briefly but eventually cooled off again. Today, Ruth Egnoski's disappearance remains unsolved.
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| 0:00.0 | It's almost like, except for the fact that we have photos of her, and we know that she existed, it's like she never existed at all. |
| 0:20.0 | I wish that I had more information. |
| 0:22.3 | I kind of feel like I'm in this constant pursuit of information that I think that I have a really good lead, |
| 0:28.5 | or we think that, you know, we've found something out, then it ends up being nothing. |
| 0:33.4 | It's always been in the family that Ruth ran away with a married man at 18 and was never seen again. |
| 0:44.0 | And that was just always the family lore. |
| 0:46.5 | Because apparently she did have a boyfriend and I don't know anything about him. |
| 0:51.7 | I think his name is Ray Brennan. |
| 0:55.0 | From what I heard, he was never even talked to by authorities. |
| 1:00.2 | Like he was never looked at. |
| 1:02.3 | They tried to pin it on my grandpa. |
| 1:04.3 | I mean, they dug up the old house where the family used to live. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, they dug up the old backyard, found a cowbone. |
| 1:12.2 | I mean, they harassed my family. |
| 1:13.9 | This is like where my grandparents kind of grew up. |
| 1:17.6 | It's just the area where they both kind of grew up. |
| 1:19.9 | They moved out of the town. |
| 1:21.2 | They had to. |
| 1:23.1 | Sometime between the summer of 1964 and 1966, |
| 1:30.9 | a young woman disappeared from Delavan, Wisconsin. |
| 1:37.5 | No one can remember exactly when for sure. Depending on the year, she would have been between the ages of 18 and 20. Her family said that they reported her missing to the local police, but they didn't do |
| 1:43.6 | anything to search for her. |
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