The Disappearance of Monica and Michael Bennett, Part 2
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This episode details the case of Monica and Michael Bennett, the Brunswick, GA siblings who disappeared in 1989; this episode focuses in particular on the events that occurred on June 21st, the day the brother and sister went missing Engineered by Encompass Podcast Studio/Music by RJR/Content advisement by Winter Wheeler/remastered by Scott Stronach
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| 0:00.0 | This is the fall line. |
| 0:22.0 | If you haven't listened to the preceding episode, please do so before you begin this one. |
| 0:26.0 | Many key points are established. |
| 0:28.0 | We'll remind you of where we are in the timeline, but you'll need context to truly understand the events discussed here. |
| 0:34.0 | Soutenims have been assigned to the parents of the missing children and to the children's uncle. |
| 0:39.0 | No other pseudonyms are used. |
| 0:42.0 | Some of the field interviews have a mild fuzzy undertone due to the situational noise at the time of recording. |
| 0:48.0 | We've reduced it where possible and filled the stories were vital to include rather than to retell. |
| 0:54.0 | On the first episode of the season, Sheila, Monica and Michael's elder sister revealed the alleged molestation of Monica by their stepfather John, |
| 1:03.0 | the subsequent denials and lack of action, and Michael's eventual discovery that his sister was telling the truth, something that drove them both from their parents home. |
| 1:12.0 | It's alleged that Michael's discovery sparked the parents to finally separate. |
| 1:16.0 | Jane, their mother, could no longer ignore the abuse. |
| 1:20.0 | In the late spring of 1989, John moved to the Heritage Department's complex. |
| 1:24.0 | Within a month, Michael and Monica were gone. |
| 1:28.0 | To go forward to the moment of their disappearance, we have to head back where two, and that can get a little confusing for everyone. |
| 1:35.0 | We need to remember that nearly everyone interviewed has only a scrap of the story, limited or informed by what they knew at the time Michael and Monica went missing. |
| 1:44.0 | In some cases, we have more details of the day's events than individual family members. |
| 1:49.0 | When the family gathered to be interviewed for this podcast, they surprised each other with the information, with corrections and revisions to what have been fact. |
| 1:57.0 | Sometimes they all spoke at once, a rush of words that layered details like clues, a relief probably, and the story, there's been so much silence. |
| 2:08.0 | Let's revisit the day that Monica and Michael went missing, June 21st, 1989. |
| 2:14.0 | According to the family, Monica and Michael had both moved out. |
| 2:17.0 | We don't know a lot about Monica's biological father, except that if circumstances have been different, she wouldn't have chosen to live with him. |
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