Ryan Withee

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

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

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On April 3, 2022, 36-year-old Ryan Withee was asked to leave the sober living house where he had been staying in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The next day, another resident at the sober living house saw Ryan leaving the house on foot with his belongings. At 1:10 am on April 5, a message was sent from Ryan's Facebook account to his friend via Facebook messenger indicating he needed help. Later that day, the same resident found Ryan's backpack at the sober living house. Then, Ryan's cell phone was located approximately a mile from the facility. Clues began to trickle in once residents reviewed the security cameras. Nearly a year later, Ryan is still missing.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:20.0	I've only got a couple pictures of me and him, and
0:24.0	no, I felt really good to be able to look back and remember that time that we took that picture at the bonfire.
0:32.0	We were sitting around drinking. Like, yeah, I totally remember that night.
0:38.0	And I don't know. I felt like it just hit me like, you're not going to see your friend ever again.
0:46.0	And you don't even know why. You don't know what happened.
0:50.0	And it bothers me. It really does. It just sucks because we're all so helpless and we cared about this dude so much.
1:00.0	And our minds are just going to wander the rest of our lives until we find out what happened to him.
1:06.0	And I will always wonder what happened to him until we find out.
1:14.0	On April 3, 2022, 36-year-old Ryan Witte was asked to leave the sober living house where he had been staying in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:24.0	That night, he is thought to have slept somewhere nearby. Because the next day, another resident at the sober living house saw Ryan leaving on foot with his belongings.
1:34.0	The following morning, around 1.10am, a message was sent from Ryan's Facebook account to a friend via Facebook Messenger indicating that he needed help.
1:44.0	Later that day, the same resident who had seen Ryan leave found Ryan's backpack located at the sober living house.
1:52.0	It was open and leaning against a building. And a stranger found Ryan's cell phone approximately a mile away.
1:59.0	Strangely, the person who found the phone handed it to the man who had last seen Ryan. The same person who had also spontaneously found his backpack.
2:08.0	But there were other sightings of Ryan too. Sightings that left his family with more questions and answers.
2:14.0	I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is Episode 387 of The Vanished. Ryan with these story.
2:29.0	Hello, I'm Hannah. And I'm Sirete. And we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast.
2:48.0	Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.
2:51.0	From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.
2:57.0	Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand.
3:00.0	Which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.
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