Therese Vanderheiden-Walsh
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
On 22 June 1990, five-year-old Therese Vanderheiden-Walsh was abducted from a daycare center in Kaneohe, Hawaii. From the jump, authorities believed that her estranged mother, Merle Vanderheiden, was responsible.
However, Merle proved elusive for authorities to track down, utilizing her prior counter-intelligence training from the U.S. military to evade federal agents. To make matters even more complicated, investigators feared that Merle had been aided by a shadowy organization known as the "Children of the Underground"...
Episode hosted, researched, written, and produced by Micheal Whelan
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| 0:30.8 | On Friday, June 22nd, 1990, a five year old girl was at a daycare center in Kaneo, Hawaii. |
| 0:44.6 | Not too far away from the home where she lived with her father and stepmother. |
| 0:48.8 | Throughout the prior week, she had participated in a variety of activities at the daycare, |
| 0:53.7 | all of which were part of the Summer Fun program run by the Kokokahi YWCA |
| 0:58.7 | and had already started to get ready to head to a swim class that afternoon. |
| 1:03.2 | First, though, came a small recess break for her and the other kids in the program. |
| 1:07.7 | As this little girl played with the other kids during their recess break, |
| 1:11.2 | a staff member noticed a woman near the school grounds who stood out. |
| 1:15.7 | This woman was wearing dark sunglasses and a large floppy hat. |
| 1:19.7 | This teacher made a mental note of the woman, |
| 1:22.2 | but at the moment had no reason to think that anything was untoward. |
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