Tammy Pitkin - USA

The Missing

Darrell Brown

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we tell the baffling story of the disappearance of Tammy Pitkin, whose car was found abandoned on a dead end forest service road in Sweet Home, Oregon, almost 400 miles from her home in Red Bluff California.

Tammy had recently separated from her husband but was looking forward to the imminent birth of her first grandchild as well as her son’s wedding. She had taken a road trip, starting on October 14th, but told her son she would be home in a few days at the most. Tammy brought her two dogs with her, one of which was found almost four months later in the woods near where her car was discovered, emaciated but alive.

This episode hears from Tammy’s sister Airaka. She and Tammy were very close growing up but at the time of her disappearance, hadn’t spoken for more than six years, the result of a family feud that caused them to cease all contact with one another. Airaka walks us through how she first came to learn of her sister’s disappearance, how any bad blood between them ceased to matter the moment her sister needed her and Airaka’s theories about what prompted Tammy’s unusual road trip.

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1:01.4	they need to be looked after, tended to, to make sure they grow and
1:06.2	flourish rather than wither and die. Relationships between family members are even trickier.
1:13.3	With all the usual standards we measure them by, muddied by blood, a complicating factor that
1:19.9	amplifies the good, the bad, and the ugly.
1:24.0	When Erica Laughlin first learned that her sister Tammy had vanished, the pair hadn't spoken
1:30.5	for more than six years. the result of a family feud that caused them to cease all
1:36.7	contact with one another. But for Erica, the second she knew her sibling was in trouble, all of that immediately ceased to matter.
1:47.0	Any resentment or bitterness fell away and was replaced by one overwhelming desire to see her sister again.
1:57.0	I'm Ashley Loeb Blasngate and you're listening to The Missing
2:02.0	a What's the story original podcast series. This
2:05.9	episode and all of the episodes in the United States and Canada are brought to you
2:11.4	with the help of the Doe Network, a not-for-profit volunteer
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