Rodrigo Falcon
The Missing
Darrell Brown
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to the eighth and final season of The Missing in its current form. Our first episode tells the tragic story of Rodrigo Falcon, who vanished from the picturesque Scottish town of Aviemore, in December 2022.
Rodrigo was originally from Argentina. He loved travel and adventure and these interests brought him to Aviemore, whose lakes and mountains attract thousands of tourists every year. Rodrigo was a keen skier and for a while worked at Cairngorm Mountain, a ski resort 11 miles outside of town, before eventually getting a gig pulling pints at a bar called the Pine Marten.
This episode hears from Katie Jahacy, co-owner of the Pine Marten and Rodrigo’s close friend. Katie brings us through the events leading up to Rodrigo’s disappearance and its aftermath, highlighting the outpouring of grief from the inhabitants of Aviemore that resulted. They came together in huge numbers to try and locate the man who had brought such joy to their lives, someone many of them considered a ‘brother.’
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| 0:00.0 | A missing person case can turn a dream house into an unsellable nightmare, |
| 0:16.0 | a once desirable suburb into a no-go area, and it can reduce a previously popular tourist destination |
| 0:23.6 | into a ghost town. But sometimes tragedy can do the opposite. That's what happened in the Scottish |
| 0:32.6 | town of Aviemoor. In December 2022, when Rodrigo Falcon went missing, people didn't cast blame or point fingers. |
| 0:43.3 | Instead, they came together. |
| 0:46.3 | Rodrigo hailed from Argentina, but he'd been working in Aviemore for years. |
| 0:51.3 | He was affable, well-liked, and when he failed to turn up for his shift behind the bar at the |
| 0:57.1 | Pine Martin, hundreds of locals joined the search, creating a sense of unity at a time when it was |
| 1:04.3 | needed most. I'm Pandora Sykes, and you're listening to The Missing, a What's the Story original podcast series brought to you with the help of the charity's missing people and locate international. |
| 1:18.9 | They believe that all of the cases in this series could still be solved. |
| 1:25.1 | This is The Missing, Rodrigo Falcon. |
| 1:36.0 | Katie Jahassi has worked in the hospitality industry for many years. She co-owns and |
| 1:42.7 | operates the Pine Martin Bar in the stunning town of Avimo in the Scottish Highlands, |
| 1:48.8 | a mecca for winter sports enthusiasts and hill walkers the world over. |
| 1:54.1 | Aviemore is a tourist destination. It's in a national park and it's got lovely mountains and beautiful lochs and some of the last remaining Caledonian forest in Scotland. |
| 2:06.8 | Being a tourist destination, obviously we're busy in the summertime, but that's the beauty of Avie Moore and having Kyrn-Gorn Mountain is that it's a winter destination as well. |
| 2:16.5 | So back when we used to have lots of snow |
| 2:18.5 | and real winters, we used to be really busy all year round. On days like today when sun shines, |
| 2:23.7 | it's a lovely tourist destination and a great place to be. The mountains are just magical. |
| 2:30.0 | Every year, Aviemore attracts thousands of tourists and seasonal workers from all over the world. |
| 2:36.0 | They spend a week or two taking in the locks and the mountains, chasing their day's exploration with a few drams of whiskey, |
| 2:42.9 | before eventually packing up and going home, taking with them memories they'll cherish forever. |
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