The Day Akia Disappeared

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🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

When a woman who is eight months pregnant vanishes before her own baby shower, her family begins a desperate search. As detectives struggle to unravel the chilling mystery, they wonder: is it a missing persons case, or something far more sinister? Josh Mankiewicz reports. Josh Mankiewicz and Keith Morrison go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’: Listen on Apple: https://apple.co/3Zu0HWe Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6qYRUwlt033mdIxBXomoXQ

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0:00.0	Tonight on Dateline. We walked through our house. I get this area feeling. I was so afraid to to walk up the stairs. It just felt like we were in a horror movie.
0:12.0	You have a 22 year old pregnant female that doesn't show up for her baby shower.
0:17.5	Her family was frantic.
0:19.0	Absolutely.
0:20.0	Somebody please help our daughter.
0:22.0	No one wanted to report on her story.
0:24.4	I had someone tell me she wasn't newsworthy.
0:26.8	No one that we knew of wanted to hurt her.
0:30.0	She was all over social media and that is crucial.
0:34.0	Because when that stops that tells you something.
0:37.0	Absolutely.
0:38.0	We were looking at anyone close to AKEA.
0:40.0	Went to him where he and all her stuff was gone.
0:43.0	I can't tell you what happened to her, I don't know.
0:46.0	If I was a detective, I would be looking for us too.
0:50.0	You got one guy, two women.
0:52.0	This is a love triangle if there ever was one.
0:54.2	It's classic.
0:55.5	People commit heinous acts when they're desperate.
0:59.5	Anything but this.
1:01.0	Anything but this.
1:03.0	A young mom with a baby on the way vanishes, a frantic family, and an urgent mystery.
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