Teresa Kennedy and Bethany Tiner Part 2: Family Secrets
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Yesterday we brought you the first part of the unbelievable disappearance of Teresa Kennedy and her then three-year-old daughter, Bethany. After years of thinking that Teresa and Bethany had vanished with no indications that they were alive, a letter was discovered that changed everything and raised the distinct possibility that they may be out there somewhere living in hiding. This is the rest of the story, and it will grip you to the very end.
If you have any information about the disappearances of Teresa Kennedy, Bethany Tiner, or Rachel Lewis, please contact the Chickasha Police Department at 405-222-6050. You may also reach out to federal authorities with the US Marshals Service in the Western District of Oklahoma at 405-231-4206. You can also contact the Department of Homeland Security, Dallas Field Office at (214) 424-7800.
You can follow Teresa and Bethany’s story on the website Catherine has created and maintained in her search at findbethandmom.com.
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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. |
| 0:17.0 | To me, I have a feeling that probably |
| 0:21.5 | Theresa knew what was going on. I asked my mother one time because my mother is the only |
| 0:27.0 | link that I had between them. And I asked her, I said, Mom, do you think that Theresa left because of the |
| 0:35.0 | molestation? And she said, I've wondered that. I've thought that myself. Well, my granddaughter |
| 0:42.0 | told us about him molesting her. This is a one-time thing that he did to her, but the ones down there in |
| 0:49.0 | McAllister and Hartzahn, it was an ongoing thing. But we happened to be there because, well, the |
| 0:56.0 | time period was my grandmother had passed away and we had the funeral. And that evening they were all |
| 1:04.0 | over at Melissa's house and that's when he took it upon himself to set with the little kids |
| 1:11.0 | right in front of the mothers playing cards and doing this, whatever. And he's over there messing |
| 1:17.0 | with the little kids. I called him on it. I called him when he was in San Diego and I just |
| 1:26.0 | put it out there. I said, you were messing with her and the other kids. He said, yeah, I did it. He |
| 1:32.0 | admitted it to me. I was lost for words. I thought he would lie to me about it. So then I |
| 1:39.0 | asked him, I said, Joey, are you doing this to your daughter, too? Beth wasn't born. Oh, no, no. He said, I |
| 1:47.0 | wouldn't do that to her. Whether he did or not, I don't know that. Did he said, I am seeing a |
| 1:54.0 | counselor about it. Well, about a week or so later, the DHS and McAllister said that they got a call |
| 2:03.0 | from someone, some counselor about the molestation and they went and talked to the kids and I wasn't |
| 2:13.0 | involved in that. I was just told about that. And the only thing that the DHS did was just |
| 2:21.0 | to tell him to stay away from me. No charges were brought. Yesterday, we brought you the first |
| 2:28.0 | part of the unbelievable disappearance of Teresa Kennedy and her then three-year-old daughter, Bethany. |
| 2:34.0 | After years of thinking that Teresa and Bethany had vanished with no indications that they were alive, |
| 2:40.0 | a letter was discovered that changed everything and raised the distinct possibility that they may |
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