Unsolved Cases Featuring Missing / Murdered Children

Last Seen Alive

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to unsolved cases, nothing is more haunting than the unsolved disappearance or death of a child. Each of these little-known cases is in critical need of tips from the public, so join us as we explore the stories of multiple young victims in this special multi-case episode of Last Seen Alive.

Cases covered in this episode include:

· The unsolved 1998 suspicious death of 17-year-old Danny Violette, whose remains were found abandoned in an Ohio cornfield.

· The unsolved 2000 triple-disappearance of 1-year-old Sidney Smith, newborn Monique Smith, and their 20-year-old mother, Jennifer Lancaster, all of whom vanished from Kansas without a trace. If you’d like to skip the discussion of suicide in the first segment this segment begins around the 17:07 mark.

· The unsolved 2014 disappearance of 7-year-old Julia Potter, who was abducted from Seattle by her own non-custodial father and is believed to now be living off grid with him.

· The unsolved 2021 disappearance of 16-year-old Kit Nelson-Mora, who vanished from Washington shortly after reuniting with their birth parent, who has a history of child abuse.

If you have any information about the death of Danny Violette, please contact the Huron County Sheriff’s Office at 419-668-6912, or fill out the online tip form at https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Individuals-and-Families/Victims/Submit-a-Tip/Unsolved-Homicide-Tip.aspx

If you know anything about the disappearance or whereabouts of Jennifer Lancaster, Sidney Smith and / or Monique Smith, please contact the call the Topeka police criminal investigation bureau at 785-368-9400. Or, if you prefer to remain anonymous, call the Shawnee County Crimestoppers at 785-234-0007 OR access their online tip form at www.p3tips.com/128.

If you know anything about the disappearance of Julia Potter and / or the whereabouts of Julie or Jason, please contact the Seattle Police Department at 206-625-5011. If you know whether either of them are right now, please call 911. And if you wish to submit a tip anonymously, you can call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. At the time of this recording, there’s a $1,000 reward available for information leading to Julia’s recovery.

If you know anything about the disappearance or whereabouts of Kit Nelson-Mora, please contact the Omak Police Department at 509-826-0383, or the Washington State Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Unit at 844-770-7900. At the time of this recording, there’s a $10,000 award available for information leading to the resolution of Kit’s case.

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0:00.0	When it comes to unsolved cases, nothing is more haunting than the unsolved disappearance or death of a child.
0:07.2	Each of these little-known cases is in critical need of tips from the public, so join us as we explore the stories of multiple young victims in this special multi-case episode of Last Seen Alive.
0:19.1	Cases covered in this episode include
0:21.2	The Unsolved 1998 suspicious death of 17-year-old Danny Violet,
0:26.6	whose remains were found abandoned in an Ohio cornfield.
0:29.9	The Unsolved 2000 triple disappearance of one-year-old Sidney Smith,
0:34.2	newborn Monique Smith, and their 20-year-old mother, Jennifer Lancaster, all of whom
0:38.6	vanished from Kansas without a trace. The unsolved 2014 disappearance of seven-year-old
0:44.2	Julia Potter, who was abducted from Seattle by her own non-custodial father and is believed to
0:49.8	now be living off-grid with him. And the unsolved 2021 disappearance of 16-year-old Kit Nelson Mora, who vanished from Washington
0:58.4	shortly after reuniting with their birth parent who has a history of child abuse.
1:22.7	Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive.
1:29.6	I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co-host,
1:35.4	Scott. This is our third multi-case episode of the year. As a reminder, there will be four total,
1:40.4	with one airing in each quarter of 2024. We'll still be putting out our regular single-case episodes every other Monday. Nothing has changed in that regard. These multi-case episodes
1:45.7	are something extra and will allow us to cover up to a dozen more little-known cases over the
1:50.5	course of the year. Each of the stories in these episodes will be shorter in the cases we cover
1:55.4	in our regular episodes, and that's simply because there isn't as much information out there on these
2:00.0	cases.
2:06.6	These are cases that are, by and large, underreported upon and relatively unknown outside of the localities in which they occurred. So please, if you have any information on any of these cases,
2:12.6	let investigators know. We'll include contact information for the appropriate investigating agencies at the
2:18.2	conclusion of each story as usual. And now onto our first story, the unsolved suspicious death of
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