Troy Galloway Part 3: A Decade of Searching
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1 of this series, we explored Troy Galloway’s life and the events surrounding his January 13, 2016, disappearance from Sonora, California. We walked through the confusion of those early days, eyewitness accounts of a disturbance near Crystal Falls Lake, and the later phone data that appeared to place Troy’s phone in that same area. Those elements combined to form the backbone of the investigation and ultimately led to the extensive search of the lake, an effort that, despite its scale, uncovered no trace of Troy.
In Part 2, we shifted our focus to Troy’s relationships and the people who knew him best after his move to Sonora. We heard from the Brainstormers, the friends and loved ones who traveled to Sonora themselves, spoke with neighbors, and worked to piece together what Troy’s life looked like in the months before he vanished.
This week, in Part 3, we are going to take a deeper look at the other lines of investigation that have been pursued over the past decade, where the case stands today, and the impact that ten years of searching without answers has had on everyone who loves Troy.
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| 0:00.0 | That's another component of this is these investigators. |
| 0:12.0 | They spend a lot of time invested. |
| 0:15.0 | And boy, when you've done everything that you can, |
| 0:19.0 | and you're looking back and you're rereading and you're re-listening. |
| 0:22.2 | It's beyond just the profession. |
| 0:24.1 | It's a passion. |
| 0:25.3 | The missing person's day that Nancy and Sandy started. |
| 0:28.6 | I mean, we had people come, Holly class. |
| 0:31.8 | Her father came at Spoke one year, and Lacey Peterson's mom came at spoke. |
| 0:36.4 | At one point when I talked to Lacey Peterson's mom, |
| 0:39.3 | she talked about her phone call from Scott |
| 0:41.7 | and that later on she realized he called and just said Lacey's missing |
| 0:46.1 | and that should have been a red flag. |
| 0:49.1 | In part one of this series, we explored Troy Galloway's life |
| 0:53.1 | in the events surrounding his disappearance |
| 0:55.0 | on January 13, 2016. We walked through the confusion of those early days, the eyewitness |
| 1:01.8 | accounts of a disturbance near Crystal Falls Lake, and the phone data that came later that |
| 1:06.9 | appeared to place Troy's phone in that same area, and ultimately led to the extensive search of |
| 1:12.2 | the lake, an effort that, despite its scale, uncovered no trace of Troy. In part two, we shifted our |
| 1:18.9 | focus to Troy's relationships and the people who knew him best after his move to Sonora. We heard from |
| 1:24.5 | the brainstormers, the friends and loved ones who traveled to Sonora themselves, |
| 1:28.6 | and worked to piece together what Troy's life looked like in the months before he vanished. |
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