The Disappearance of Lisa Spence, Part 1 | 4

Felonious Florida

Wondery | Sun Sentinel

Crime Story, Documentary, Exhibit C, History, Murder Documentaries, Florida, Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The text came in to Paul Edwards’ cell phone from his girlfriend, Lisa Spence. “Just wait till I got better,” it said. But it wasn’t so much what the text said, but that it had been sent at all. A month earlier, in October 2009, Lisa had vanished after a night shift at a beauty supply store and hadn’t been seen again. When other friends and family start getting texts from Lisa, police begin to wonder if Lisa was actually the person sending the texts, or whether this case was more than a simply missing person.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime numbers. You can listen to Flonious Florida add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:11.2	Paul Edwards is at his mother's house when the text comes into his phone.
0:15.4	It's November 5th, 2009.
0:18.9	His mom's just a half mile from his small efficiency apartment in the sprawling suburban city of Miramar, Florida.
0:26.2	The text is from Paul's girlfriend of many years.
0:29.7	He and 35-year-old Lisa Spence met long ago in the Caribbean island of Trinidad,
0:34.6	just off the northern coast of South America.
0:38.0	Paul persuaded Lisa to move to Florida so they could be together.
0:42.2	And in the years since, they've had their ups and downs.
0:45.8	Lately, it's been a lot of downs.
0:49.0	Lisa's text to him this Thursday seems simple enough, if cryptic.
0:53.8	It says, just wait till I got better.
0:56.5	But it's not so much what her message says that's stunning.
1:02.6	It's that he got a text from her at all.
1:06.4	Lisa spent head vanished a month ago after returning home from a night shift at work.
1:11.7	Nobody has seen her since.
1:14.8	And now, from out of the blue, she's texting Paul Edwards.
1:27.0	From the South Florida Sun Sentinel and Association with Wondry,
1:31.8	this is Philonius, Florida, the podcast that leads you into the dark side of the Sunshine State.
1:50.0	I'm your host, Emma Kate Austin, along with reporter Juan Artega.
1:54.3	And this is part one of the disappearance of Lisa Spence.
2:07.7	Bella Beauty Supply sits in the middle of a tiny strip mall that's typical of so many others
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