The Man in the Car: The Disappearance of Roger Aguirre

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We continue our coverage of Roger Aguirre. 22-year-old Roger Aguirre disappeared on November 20, 1975, in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of many young men and boys who went missing in the city in the ‘70s—and like them, he received no attention from the media. Roger’s sister, who’d spent years searching for him after they were separated as children, was sure he wouldn’t simply leave. When his family discovered Roger had potentially crossed paths with John Wayne Gacy, they went to Cook County authorities about the remaining unidentified victims, and whether Roger could be a match. It was supposed to be one possible avenue in the search—but instead, created a new mystery.

Season 20 covers cold cases in Georgia, Illinois, and Montana, and the efforts of victims’ families to reconnect with law enforcement and gain media attention for their loved ones.

David Nelson’s book BOYS ENTER THE HOUSE:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/boys-enter-the-house-david-nelson/1138867411

Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST:

https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/

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0:00.0	Do do do do do do do do.
0:02.0	Dumb.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Mike Rowe and I got nothing against celebrities.
0:06.0	In fact, I just interviewed Rob Lowe and Jason Alexander and they were terrific, but usually I interview people you've never heard of.
0:12.0	The plumber who makes 250 grand a year, the first responders who risk their lives to save complete and total strangers,
0:19.0	and the mad scientists who are about to change the world
0:21.4	with a better mousetrap. Those are the kinds of people I usually interview on the way I heard it,
0:26.1	and you're officially invited to give it a listen wherever you listen to podcast.
0:30.1	This is the second episode in a two-part series, and the second case in our season covering cases in Georgia,
0:36.3	Illinois and Montana. This series discusses
0:38.9	historic homophobia, violence, exhumation, crime scenes, murder, and the crimes of John Wayne
0:44.4	Gacy.
0:48.8	This is the Fall Line.
0:55.0	Last time, we began the story of Roger Aguirre, who was last seen on November 20th,
1:03.0	1975. Roger was just 22 years old. He'd recently reconnected with a maternal side of his family,
1:10.0	and this was due to the efforts
1:12.1	of his older half-sister Carol who'd been searching for Roger for years.
1:17.0	As an infant, he'd gone to live with paternal relatives in Texas, though Carol and her
1:22.0	siblings, back in Alabama, knew that they had a baby brother, they never got to see him. It was 18 years before Carol
1:29.6	tracked Roger down. By then, she was living in Chicago with her own children. She'd had 12
1:36.1	daughters, and many were young enough to still be in the home. Around 1972 or 1973,
1:42.9	Roger moved to Illinois to be with them.
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