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🗓️ 14 December 2021
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49-year-old Steve Millis disappeared from Hesperia, Michigan, on January 4, 2019. On the surface, it just seemed that Steve went to the store to buy some cat food and disappeared off of the face of the earth, but things weren't that simple. When investigators began looking into this, they were thrust into the dark underbelly of the drug world. They were trying to build a case, and each person was leading them to someone else. It felt like they were getting closer and closer to the truth, but each story was shaky. The storytellers were unreliable. They all seemed to be lying about something or had something to gain from pointing to the next person in line. Through it all, they did seem to be getting some consistent threads. Sometimes there is a bit of truth in every rumor.
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0:18.0 | So we have this Facebook page, bringing Steve Miller's home Facebook page where people tend to fit in. |
0:23.0 | And there have been so many women who have called and said, you know, I left my ex-wife for finally after all these years of abuse or whatever. |
0:30.0 | And I just want you to know she said that he was involved in your dad's disappearance. |
0:34.0 | Or I was at the bar and so and so was talking and they said they were involved in your dad's escape. |
0:42.0 | Oh, some people were saying they like helped cut my dad up. After he was killed, they cut him up, put pieces of him in the back of this truck and put the tailgate down and like drove fast those pieces with fly out. |
0:51.0 | We've heard some of the most stopped up thing and they could chase him down and you look these people up on Facebook and stuff and it's like, yeah, they seem weird. |
0:58.0 | One lady was like, oh, this guy is with this chainsaw and Balava. |
1:02.0 | He like looked him up in his Facebook picture that came hold the chainsaw up and I'm like, oh, but like I never really went anywhere. |
1:09.0 | 49 year old Steve Miller disappeared from his sparey of Michigan on January 4th, 2019. |
1:17.0 | On the surface, it just seemed that he had gone to the store to buy some cat food and disappeared off the face of the earth. |
1:24.0 | But things weren't that simple. When investigators began looking into this, they were thrust into the dark underbelly of the drug world. |
1:32.0 | They were trying to build a case. Each person was leading them to someone else. |
1:37.0 | It felt like they were getting closer and closer to the truth. But each story was shaky. |
1:43.0 | The storytellers were unreliable. They all seemed to be lying about something or had something to gain from pointing to the next person in line. |
1:52.0 | Through it all, they did seem to be getting some consistent threads. Sometimes there is a bit of truth in every rumor. |
2:00.0 | Amarissa and Formandri, this is Episode 322 of The Vanished, part 4 of Steve Miller's story. |
2:22.0 | Over the past three episodes, we've taken you on a journey through the investigation into what happened to Steve Miller's. |
2:29.0 | We started with those who were suspected early on. And along the way, investigators began to focus in on Steve's nephew, Sean, and a couple of other people who were being mentioned consistently. |
2:41.0 | Today, we're going to take a closer look at these people and the stories swirling around them. |
2:47.0 | Stories that have exposed a darker side of Hasperia. Hasperia, Michigan, is a small town situated in both New Ego and Oceana counties. |
2:57.0 | It's described as a picturesque community along the beautiful White River surrounded by a national forest, as well as several inland lakes and streams. |
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