Terasi Niholimbele Part 1
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On August 30, 2017, 23-year-old Terasi Niholimbele left the home that he shared with his wife and young daughter and a friend dropped him off at a residence in Phoenix, Arizona. He has not been seen or heard from since. In the 16 months since Terasi has disappeared, his family has struggled to find answers.
If you have any information about Terasi’s disappearance, please contact the Phoenix Police Department at 602-534-2121.
You can follow Terasi’s case on Facebook at “Bring Terasi Home.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:23.0 | Every month that he's missing is one more month that a wife doesn't have her husband. |
| 0:27.0 | If not for me, I wish my brother would be found just so his little girl doesn't have to grow up without a father. |
| 0:33.0 | Our family, we have come to terms with the fact that he's no longer with us. |
| 0:37.0 | So at this point, we are just looking for a body or like a bone or like anything that's all the confirms that he's dead. |
| 0:47.0 | Because we know he's not alive. |
| 0:49.0 | My mom still wants, she still has his own or maybe he'll come back. |
| 0:55.0 | Maybe she'll say this, maybe he's in hospital or maybe she'll say like things that are not, I don't feel the irrational. |
| 1:03.0 | She'll have crying spells where she'll just be really sad and she misses him. |
| 1:09.0 | So my brother comes here as an refugee, born in a refugee camp and he's trying. |
| 1:15.0 | Like I feel like my brother tried to stay with us. |
| 1:19.0 | Like my parents were willing to risk our lives. |
| 1:23.0 | Because a lot of people died on that journey. |
| 1:25.0 | Like we would hide behind bushes for hours and days to make sure we didn't get killed. |
| 1:32.0 | I don't blame him for being missing. |
| 1:34.0 | I feel like he tried to stay alive. |
| 1:38.0 | Sometimes I came in and I would have these conversations and he would just be crying and just he wants to do better. |
| 1:45.0 | Like he was trying. |
| 1:51.0 | On August 30th, 2017, 23-year-old Tarasi Nehola Mbele left the home that he shared with his wife and young daughter and was taken by a friend to a residence in Phoenix, Arizona. |
| 2:03.0 | He has not been seen or heard from since. |
| 2:06.0 | In the 16 months since Tarasi has disappeared, his family has struggled to find answers and has been left wonder how for Tarasi |
| 2:14.0 | life in the United States went so horribly wrong. |
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