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Going West: True Crime

Sequoya Vargas // 231

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1993, a 16-year-old Indigenous girl went missing in Hawaii after going out with a friend. Earlier that day, she and her friend had been picked up by a hitchhiker who asked them to hang out later, but despite this detail, Police initially believed she had run away. Years later, they would finally received a confession that detailed the horrible truth about what happened to her the night she disappeared. This is the story of Sequoya Vargas. BONUS EPISODES patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Justice for Native Women: http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/2016/02/sequoya-vargas-missing-from-hawaii.html 2. Hawaii Tribune Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/556943695/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1 3. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/556940476 4. Honolulu Star-Bulletin: http://archives.starbulletin.com/1999/09/11/news/story3.html 5. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/557257777/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1 6. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/557271525 7. The Honolulu Advertiser: https://www.newspapers.com/image/265007391/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1 8. Honolulu Star Bulletin: http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/05/03/news/story10.html 9. Hawaii Tribune-Herald: https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/557342362/?terms=sequoya%20vargas&match=1 10. The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/joshua-scott-curry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on True Crime fans?

0:16.0

I'm your host Teef.

0:17.0

And I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.6

And you're listening to Going West.

0:21.0

Welcome everybody.

0:22.0

Thank you for tuning in to yet another episode of Going West.

0:25.6

Thank you to the Patreon subscriber who recommended today's case.

0:30.1

She wanted to stay anonymous.

0:31.7

So I'm not going to say her name, but you know who you are.

0:34.1

So thank you so much for showing us this story that we have for you today.

0:38.7

For those of you who don't know what Patreon is, it's where you can get bonus episodes.

0:42.4

So that is where this suggestion came in.

0:44.8

But if you guys want to suggest a case, a really great way to do that is via email.

0:49.2

We do get a bunch of our social media, but email is the best.

0:52.4

Going westpodcastatgmail.com, that ensures we will see it.

0:57.6

Also, we have another big announcement.

1:00.2

I know that we teased this before.

1:01.8

Like, I think it was like a month ago or so.

1:04.5

But officially, the dark parts is coming back this early fall.

1:09.3

What's the dark parts?

1:10.8

The dark parts is our sister show where we talk about urban legends, scary stories, and

1:15.4

lots of different mysteries.

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