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S3 Ep198: Leah Roberts: Desolation Peak (Part 2)

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Leah Roberts was five foot, three inches with short dark hair and a beauty mark above the right side of her lips. Leah’s life took a pretty standard path, starting with a happy childhood in Durham, North Carolina where she lived with her parents and two older siblings, sister Kara and brother Heath, until she began attending college at North Carolina State University in nearby Raleigh. Because of unexpected events and tragedies, Leah would change direction in her early 20’s and begin a journey of self exploration that would take her on an impromptu road trip. On March 9th, 2000, Leah Roberts left her Durham, North Carolina and began driving West. Nine days later, her white Jeep Cherokee was found wrecked and abandoned at the base of the Cascade Mountains, 80 miles north of Seattle, Washington. Leah was not inside the Jeep, and to this day she still has not been found, but a later examination of the vehicle would show the engine had been tampered with and maybe someone had targeted Leah Roberts as she was out in the world, trying to find herself.

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Transcript

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0:17.0

Hello everybody welcome back to Crime Weekly I'm Stephanie Harlow and I'm Derek Levasser so we're diving into the second and final part of the Leah

0:21.3

Robert's disappearance case and unless you have something to talk about at the top of the show we can dive right in.

0:28.4

Just in regards to it being the last part this is a shorter series as well and we've been doing we did a one-off. We did a two-parter. We do have some plans for you guys

0:36.8

We're gonna go back to the crime weekly routes. We're gonna have some big deep dives coming up very soon and we think when you learn

0:46.7

the case that we're working on it is one that most of you will be familiar with on the surface but just like some of the other

0:54.7

cases that we've done where you know the name but you don't know all the details

0:59.4

and that's what we're going to do we're really going to break this case down

1:01.9

I obviously know the headline of it but

1:04.4

I've never researched the details of it so we're going to go back to the Roots of

1:08.8

Crime Weekly and really get into one and it's been a few weeks since we had a

1:12.3

deep deep dive and this is a case that's

1:15.6

been requested by some of you and it was a big undertaking and Stephanie was looking for the

1:21.1

right time to do it and we think that time is now.

1:24.2

So I'm excited for you guys to learn about it.

1:25.7

You told me in a text message when I was like, oh, okay, all right, it's happening.

1:31.4

And you're like, it's happening.

1:32.1

I'm like, okay, let's do it so that's coming around

1:36.8

we won't spoil it for you tonight

1:39.3

you'll we'll talk about it next week but that is after after this episode. We'll finish out this series. We'll be diving into a deeper series a complete

1:48.6

360 degree look at this case and

1:51.8

It'll be fun.

1:52.9

It'll be good to get into.

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