The NAMUS-45: Carla Vicentini
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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This episode was written and researched by Shana Wilensky.
With production, editing, and additional research by Josh Hallmark.
Resources:
• Search continues for Brazilian student who vanished after leaving Newark bar 4 years ago - nj.com
• Thoughts & Views: Have you seen this woman? - The Observer Online
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• Comissão ouve depoimento para esclarecer desaparecimento de Carla Vicentini — Senado Notícias
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• Brazilian woman still missing in the U.S. | THE WEATHER (otempo.com.br)
• Commission hears testimony to clarify disappearance of Carla Vicentini — Senate News (senado.leg.br)
• After Over Two Months Disappeared Brazilian Girl in the US Still Missing - brazzil
• 16 years ago, a Brazilian exchange student moved to America. 21 days later, she vanished. What happened to Carla? | Fatim Hemraj | NewsBreak Original
• In 2006, a woman vanished after leaving a bar with an unknown man : UnresolvedMysteries (reddit.com)
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| 0:00.0 | This is a studio both and production. |
| 0:25.2 | Carla Vicentini disappeared in the early morning hours of February 10th 2006 from Newark, New Jersey. At the time of her disappearance, Carla was just 22 years old. |
| 0:30.5 | She had blonde hair and brown eyes and stood approximately 5 foot 7 and weighed between 130 and 140 pounds. |
| 0:39.0 | Her nickname was Carlina. She had multiple ear piercings, a pierced tongue, and a pierced |
| 0:46.2 | naval. She also has multiple tattoos, a red and yellow chameleon on her hip, a tribal design on her lower back, and a dark gray |
| 0:56.3 | angel with open wings on her upper back. |
| 1:00.4 | Carla was an engineering student from Brazil, who had only recently arrived in the United States. |
| 1:06.1 | Having grown up in the small agricultural city of Goyoera in Brazil, |
| 1:10.6 | Carla spoke very little English. |
| 1:13.2 | Her native language is Brazilian Portuguese. |
| 1:16.7 | Carla arrived in New Jersey on January 19th of 2006, |
| 1:21.4 | less than a month before she disappeared. |
| 1:25.0 | Some sources say that Carla was on a work exchange program. |
| 1:30.0 | Others say it was a cultural exchange program. |
| 1:33.0 | There are also reports that indicate she was an exchange student. |
| 1:37.0 | But by all accounts, Carla was in the United States on an official exchange program. |
| 1:45.1 | Finding information on who Carla was as a person is difficult due to the language barrier. |
| 1:51.0 | All her close friends and family live in Brazil and mainly speak Portuguese. |
| 1:55.0 | Some of the information we do have is from articles and interviews in Portuguese that we've run through a translator. |
| 2:02.0 | While we strive to be as accurate as possible, |
| 2:05.0 | sometimes small details can be lost in translation. |
| 2:09.0 | What we do know is this. |
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