True Crime Vault: The Vanishing Act
20/20
ABC News
3.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Quignores. |
| 0:02.0 | Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old soldier, |
| 0:05.0 | vanishes while on duty at an Army base in Texas. |
| 0:09.0 | Her family demands answers. |
| 0:12.0 | How can she go missing on a military base? |
| 0:14.0 | That's too ridiculous. |
| 0:16.0 | The search goes on for months. |
| 0:19.0 | Where is Vanessa? And a dark story starts to unfold. |
| 0:26.6 | She told her family that she was being sexually harassed and wasn't reporting it out of fear of retribution and retaliation. |
| 0:34.6 | What investigators finally uncover is horrifying. |
| 0:40.0 | Find out how one soldier, a beloved sister and daughter, ignited a movement and sparked |
| 0:46.5 | a reckoning in the U.S. military. |
| 0:50.0 | Listen to Vanished. |
| 0:51.7 | What happened to Vanessa? |
| 0:53.6 | A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. Listen now Vanished. What happened to Vanessa? A new series from ABC Audio in 2020. |
| 0:57.1 | Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:03.2 | Welcome back to the 2020 True Crime Vault. |
| 1:14.4 | It's the greatest story ever of survival, right? |
| 1:16.7 | Except it never happened. |
| 1:18.0 | It's a lie. |
| 1:21.3 | Next tonight here, the desperate search for a missing mother in California. |
| 1:22.1 | Cherry Papini. Sherry Papini. |
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