Through the Telescope: The Day Heather Teague Vanished

Crime Salad

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Nearly 30 years have passed since Heather Teague vanished from a Kentucky beach, but her mother, Sarah, refuses to let her story be forgotten. While police claim they identified Heather’s kidnapper and closed the case long ago, Sarah believes they got it wrong—and that the truth is still buried. In this episode, we dig into the unanswered questions, troubling missteps, and Sarah’s ongoing fight for justice. Was the investigation mishandled? And after all these years, will Heather ever be found?

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0:22.4	Love it.
0:23.1	All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.
0:25.9	So now you can keep up with the Joneses.
0:28.0	And the Evanses.
0:29.2	And the Bertels.
0:30.1	This podcast is for informational and discussion purposes only.
0:34.4	All individuals are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
0:43.8	As August slipped into September of 1995, the quiet town of Pool Kentucky was anything but calm.
0:51.4	Under the cover of darkness, the FBI and Kentucky State Police surrounded a
0:56.5	remote trailer, zeroing in on a man they believed was responsible for the chilling disappearance
1:02.9	of 23-year-old Heather Teak just four days earlier. You see, early in the investigation,
1:09.6	law enforcement received a tip in a rather unusual way.
1:13.2	According to the Kentucky State Police, someone had actually witnessed Heather's abduction as it
1:18.6	happened, a local homeowner and telescope enthusiast who often watches wildlife and people
1:25.3	visiting the beach across the river.
1:30.1	Well, on the day that Heather Teague went missing,
1:34.8	this man happened to be looking through his telescope at the adjacent beach across the Ohio River when he saw a bearded man with wild hair
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