Troy Galloway Part 1: Sounds in the Snow
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
January 13, 2016, was a chilly winter day in Sonora, California. That day, thirty-four-year-old Troy Galloway was reportedly at home with his wife and young daughter when the couple had a disagreement. According to his wife, Troy ran out of the house and into the cold, snowy yard wearing only a t-shirt, jeans, and shoes. Troy never returned, and no one has seen or heard from him since. A couple of days later, Troy’s mother, Nancy, who was back home a few hours away in Santa Cruz, received a text from Troy’s wife saying that he was missing. Nancy was both shocked and frustrated that she hadn’t been notified sooner. At that point, Troy still had not been reported missing, and once he was, a jurisdictional mix-up further delayed search efforts.
Since Troy was not reported missing right away, it took time to connect his disappearance to a commotion that neighbors said they heard the night he vanished. The neighbors were concerned enough to report it to law enforcement that evening. However, learning that information didn’t bring anyone closer to finding Troy; it only deepened the mystery. If Troy had truly run from the home on foot that night, underdressed for the January weather, where did he go? How did he disappear without a trace? And was that commotion heard by neighbors connected to Troy’s disappearance?
For nearly a decade, Troy’s loved ones have been trying to piece together what clues they have to answer those questions. Today, they’re hoping to reach someone who holds the missing piece that could finally explain what happened to Troy Galloway back in January of 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | He's been gone for almost 10 years. |
| 0:11.5 | Even now, I think about it. |
| 0:14.0 | He's so talented that it's sad. |
| 0:16.8 | I mean, there's sadness all around, |
| 0:18.6 | but his life was cut short if he passed on. and I don't know if he did or not. |
| 0:25.0 | Why would you think it's okay for him to run out in the night and just not tell anybody? |
| 0:29.6 | It feels like it's a movie that's happening to somebody else, and all of a sudden I'm in it. |
| 0:35.1 | It's really weird. |
| 0:36.2 | Every time you remember, |
| 0:37.5 | if you're granted some reprieve of remembering |
| 0:40.1 | it hits you, like it's the first time |
| 0:41.9 | you're hearing it again. |
| 0:43.1 | It's just brief. |
| 0:44.2 | It really truly is unbelievable. |
| 0:47.0 | As time goes by, information means different things. |
| 0:50.5 | We do pull out our missing and cold case files and we do case debriefs on them regularly, |
| 0:56.0 | and we bring new people in to look at the information. |
| 0:59.0 | And what that does is it has a fresh set of eyes to come in and look, |
| 1:04.0 | because when you've been looking at something for too long, |
| 1:06.0 | it really hinders your ability to see what's really there. |
| 1:10.0 | I think by bringing that information to light every so often, |
| 1:13.2 | going back and going over and looking over different things, |
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