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Rogue Energy

Spring Break Nightmare: Foul Play Suspected With Missing University of Alabama Student

Rogue Energy

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.04.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

20 year old University of Alabama student James “Jimmy” Gracey never made it back to his Air-Bnb  Tuesday after going out with friends in Barcelona, Spain.  Gracey was on a spring break trip visiting friends studying abroad and was last seen on surveillance video at 3am after leaving with an unidentified person.  Now his family, friends and the State Department are asking for the public’s help.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:15.5

Hey, folks.

0:16.4

It is Thursday, March 19th, and there is a University of Alabama student who is right now missing in Spain.

0:25.0

Been missing for a couple of days, but now authorities are saying they do believe foul play is involved with that.

0:30.8

Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. This is a 20-year-old kid, right?

0:34.3

Yes, he's a junior at the University of Alabama.

0:39.5

And his name is James,

0:46.2

Jimmy, Gracie, and look, this hits home. You know, this is a kid, a college kid on spring break.

0:51.7

How many people listening right now have kids doing that right now? I am among them, and this is absolutely a parents' force nightmare.

1:01.1

We've seen these stories over years, some very high profile of cases, quite frankly, over the years,

1:05.5

and which we have, in some cases, don't really get a whole lot of answers.

1:09.3

I'm not moving toward that direction, but what I'm saying here, Rob,, seems like we have seen some of these stories over

1:12.2

the past number of years. And in Robs, when you're in the pain, or excuse me, the, I guess,

1:21.3

the helplessness a parent must feel sitting this far away, maybe not speaking the language, way over

1:28.5

some, and just lost and just doesn't know what to do. And that is where they're sitting right

1:33.0

now because this kid went missing on, it was early Tuesday morning hours. So I have that right. They

1:36.9

went out Monday night. Yes. So he had been in Amsterdam in the weekend, had just gotten to

1:41.4

Barcelona on Monday, went out to a very popular tourist restaurant

1:47.2

and nightclub right there on Barcelona Beach and was with a big group of friends. And yes,

1:52.7

the last time he was seen, he got separated from his friends, according to those who were out

1:56.9

with him that night. It happens. But he was last seen leaving this club at 3 a.m.

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