Two Women Vanish into Thin Air? What Happened to Andrea and Linda?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Two highly thought-of, loved women go missing.

Andrea Knabel dedicates her life to finding missing people and volunteering with the National Organization of Missing in America. Three years ago, Knabel's name was added to the list of those missing.

The 37-year-old was last seen leaving her sister's house in the middle of the night on foot. Her family says she was upset and going through a rough patch. The movement of her phone has been tracked but not found. Her family is still hopeful.

Cynthia "Linda" Alonzo had plans for Thanksgiving. The 48-year-old mother lived with her daughter and grandchildren in Oakland, California. She also had a romantic relationship, but the upcoming holidays were family time.

Alonzo spoke to one of her daughters by phone, confirming traditional plans of a get-together at Alonzo's mother's home in San Francisco, but she never made it.

What happened to Linda?

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

Mike Knabel - Father of Andrea
Erin Knabel - Sister of Andrea, TikTok: @ErinKnabel, Twitter: @erin_knabel
Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, author “Red Flags;" "Today with Dr. Wendy" on KCBQ in San Diego; Twitter: @WendyPatrickPHD
Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy); Twitter: @TrialDoc; Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology"
Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University; Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet;" Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan"
Mark Oprea - Freelance Journalist (Cleveland, OH), covered the story for "Narratively;" Twitter: @mark_oprea
Susan E. Williams - South Carolina Criminal Defense Attorney; Former Prosecutor (Summerville); Instagram: @carolinaladylawyer, Twitter: @ATTYswilliams
Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist; Twitter: @carynpsych, Facebook: "Caryn Stark"
Dana Kennedy - Senior Reporter, New York Post; Twitter/Instagram: @DanaKennedyLive; Facebook: "Dana.Kennedy"

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0:00.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:05.0	The world that I inhabited gave me inside into things that most of the general public can't even
0:10.3	begin to imagine, always having to view the abnormal in the context of the normal. To make them make
0:16.7	sense, if you will, when all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead. Listen to body bags with
0:22.9	Joseph Scott Morgan, only I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.7	A single mother of two who coincidentally donates her time trying to locate missing people,
0:44.4	goes missing herself. I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here
0:50.5	at Fox Nation and Series XM 111. Where is Andrea? First of all, take a listen to this.
0:57.2	January 7th is Andrea's birthday. Her sister and friends spent New Year's Day out searching for
1:02.6	any sign of her. And a new documentary recently aired, which her father says has sparked more
1:08.1	interest in her case. Despite the rainy weather, the search went on. This time they focused on
1:16.0	Audubon Park to Belmar Avenue. Her sister, Erin, was the last one to see her live.
1:22.1	He was calling her friends after she left my house. She wasn't ready to go to sleep.
1:26.8	She was wanting to stay up and like hang out. Joining me and all-star panel of guests make sense
1:32.6	of what we know right now. But first, I want to go to special guest, Mike Knaiball. This is Andrea's
1:39.1	dad and Erin Knaiball, her sister. Thank you so much for being with us. Mr. Knaiball, tell me
1:47.8	when you first learned that your daughter, Andrea, was missing. I believe it was about a day in.
1:56.5	I got a call from Erin and she just informed me that Andrea wasn't answering. I personally wasn't
2:03.8	overly concerned at that point because when she's not watching her children, someday she
2:08.8	hangs out with friends for a day or two. It got a little more serious after day two or three when
2:16.1	Erin told me that her friends hadn't seen her either and that's when we decided to file
2:21.3	the missing persons report. When did it really say anti-Mr. Knaiball that she was gone?
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