The After Show: Diary of a Killer

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.0 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The 20/20 team discusses their report about the murder of a New Jersey mom that sparked an international manhunt for her killer. Originally broadcast in December 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm John Quignores.
0:02.0	Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier,
0:05.0	vanishes while on duty at an Army base in Texas.
0:09.0	Her family demands answers.
0:12.0	How can she go missing on a military base?
0:14.0	That's too ridiculous.
0:16.0	The search goes on for months.
0:19.0	Where is Vanessa? And a dark story starts to unfold.
0:25.6	She told her family that she was being sexually harassed
0:29.6	and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation.
0:34.6	What investigators finally uncover is horrifying.
0:40.0	Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked
0:46.5	a reckoning in the U.S. military.
0:50.0	Listen to Vanished.
0:51.7	What happened to Vanessa?
0:53.6	A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. Listen now Vanished. What happened to Vanessa? A new series from ABC Audio in 2020.
0:57.0	Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:05.6	Hello, everybody.
1:07.0	I'm Deborah Roberts and welcome to 2020 The After Show.
1:14.3	This story is one that i will not forget and probably most of our viewers and you listeners won't either it was a murder investigation that shocked a
1:20.1	small community one that was known to feel safe and very picturesque a beloved mom angela bled, shot to death inside her home in Montclair, New Jersey.
1:32.1	Now, many of you learned through our 2020 episode called Diary of a Killer that I reported this case.
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