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48 Hours

The Disappearance of Kelly Dwyer

48 Hours

CBS News

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A young woman vanished after a night out in Milwaukee in October 2013. Did a meeting set up on a dating app lead to the disappearance or was it someone she knew? "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant reports.

Transcript

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It was somewhat unusual for someone to just vanish out of thin air, especially on the

0:24.8

east side of Milwaukee. Kelly Dwyer, she is a young woman that is out trying to

0:34.6

discover herself. You see this bright, eyed, smiling, beautiful girl who really

0:41.4

seemed to have a lot of life and vitality. We got to spend quite a bit of time

0:49.6

together in the yoga room. It was rare not to see her and I had just assumed she was

0:54.4

on an adventure of some sort. October 12, 2013, she did not show up for work. Her co-workers

1:05.8

were absolutely the first to respond. Kelly was very tied to her cell phone, always posting

1:12.8

on social media, always texting. When they called Kelly's cell phone, it went straight

1:19.9

to voicemail. Kelly Dwyer is missing. Flyers started going out. All of the sudden in

1:27.2

the community, it was boo. Everybody knew that she was missing.

1:36.8

There's a sense of urgency here. Absolute sense of urgency for certain. Today authorities

1:41.5

and volunteers hunted for clues in her disappearance. I think that people saw those

1:47.4

images and realized, you know, this could be my daughter. This could be my best friend.

1:54.3

Kelly Dwyer was an acquaintance of mine. We would meet up at Alium, a local bar, and we

2:00.5

would touch face frequently throughout the week. We learned that she was on a number of

2:06.3

websites where one would meet men. She was bright. She sweet, just kindhearted, good person.

2:15.1

She was on websites that could expose you to people very quickly that are strangers.

2:22.4

Some of her friend made comments and she might be with one of those people right now.

2:27.0

Kelly Dwyer was meeting people that could have put her in harm's way.

2:57.0

It's like she vanishes. Her social media goes dead. Her

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