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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Tony Ryan's sister Marcia disappeared in 1996 after leaving her Melbourne home.
Marcia told her family she was going on a road trip with her dog Ziggy to see their parents in Queensland. But as you'll hear from Tony, Marcia's car was found abandoned in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria with no sign of Marcia or Ziggy.
Tony's been relentless in trying to find out what happened to Marcia, who was 33 when she vanished.
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If you have any information in regards to the disappearance of Marcia Ryan, contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website
The Ryan family's story is featured in Nicole Morris' book VANISHED
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0:33.7 | contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian |
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1:07.0 | Tony Ryan's sister Marsha disappeared in 1996 after leaving her Melbourne home. |
1:18.2 | Marsha told her family she was going on a road trip with her dog Ziggi to see their parents in Queensland. |
1:24.8 | But as you'll hear from Tony, |
1:26.8 | Marsha's car was found abandoned in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria. |
1:31.6 | No sign of Marsha or Ziggi. Tony's been relentless in trying to find out what |
1:37.6 | happened to Marsha, who was 33 when she vanished. Could she be living off the grid somewhere in Australia? She'd done it before when she was |
1:46.0 | younger. Did someone kill her? Why did she leave home so abruptly? Tony wonders a number of things. Did the smell of marijuana |
1:55.7 | that her housemaid had been smoking trigger a trauma response in Marsha, who |
2:00.4 | had experienced mental ill health and drug use in her late teens and early 20s. |
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