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🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Gone Cole podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion |
0:06.8 | is advised. |
0:09.7 | It seemed as though everything stopped in North Texas on Wednesday, November 30, 2022. |
0:17.4 | That evening, seven-year-old Athena Strand went missing. |
0:21.9 | She was last seen at her home at approximately 5.30 pm. |
0:27.6 | Wise County residents sent some from the surrounding counties such as Tarant and Parker |
0:33.0 | swarmed to the area surrounding the little girl's home in the tiny town of Paradise, Texas |
0:39.0 | to help search. |
0:41.0 | To their credit, the Wise County Sheriff's Office sprung into action fast, enlisting the |
0:46.5 | help of the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Fort Worth Police, area fire departments, |
0:52.6 | and a canine rescue team. |
0:55.4 | An amber alert was issued, and although that was not without its problems as usual concerning |
1:01.6 | the implementation of the alert, it gained the attention of virtually every North Texan |
1:07.7 | on the grid, and arguably a helpful thing. |
1:12.7 | Some, however, were less than helpful. |
1:16.4 | As is the case with every high-profile crime or disappearance, folks took to social media |
1:22.0 | to offer speculation and character analyses of those involved. |
1:27.9 | Most of course, graceless, and since virtually no clues clearly pointed to what might have |
1:33.8 | happened, based upon nothing more than the few known details about Athena and her family. |
1:40.6 | By the following morning, in fact, a Facebook group had been created, and when 24 hours |
1:46.5 | had gone by, with no sign of the seven-year-old girl, things got ugly there. |
1:52.8 | While social media has become an incredibly important tool for locating missing persons, |
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