The Murder of Denise Amber Lee
REDRUM true crime
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4.6 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In January 2008, 21 year old mother of 2, Denise Amber Lee vanished from her home in North Port, Florida, in broad daylight... leaving behind her phone, keys, purse… and 2 young children alone inside the house.
Across town, a terrified woman secretly dialled 911 from inside a moving car, whispering clues, begging to go home to her children, while pretending to speak normally so her abductor wouldn’t realise she was calling for help. Minutes later, another witness reported seeing what looked like a child being kidnapped from a passing green Camaro.
But despite multiple 911 calls, eyewitness information, and opportunities to intervene… something went catastrophically wrong.
In this episode of REDRUM True Crime, Grace dives into the heartbreaking and infuriating case of Denise Amber Lee, the stranger abduction that shocked Florida, the emergency response failures that sparked national outrage, and the devastating questions that still haunt this case today:
Could Denise have been saved?
As the investigation unfolds, detectives race against time, a suspect emerges, and one missed opportunity changes everything.
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| 0:59.9 | A man pulled up next to me and there was a child screaming in the car. |
| 1:03.6 | What kind of vehicle is he in? |
| 1:05.2 | It's a blue Camaro, like Camaro, like in the 90s or early 2000s or something. |
| 1:12.3 | Okay, it was a baby or a... |
| 1:14.1 | No, it was a child. |
| 1:15.7 | A kid in the backseat and they kept banging on the window. |
| 1:19.4 | And screaming. |
| 1:20.4 | And crying. |
| 1:21.3 | And screaming. |
| 1:22.5 | Like screaming, screaming, screaming, screaming, screaming. |
| 1:24.7 | The person inside of that car, the one described as a screaming kid, a child, wasn't. |
| 1:31.8 | The screaming person is 21-year-old Denise Amber Lee, and she is in an active abduction scenario. |
| 1:38.8 | The witness call reporting the abduction lasted a total of nine minutes and yet the 911 call handler, they |
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