Unsolved Disappearance: Angela Freeman

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When a young Mississippi mom-to-be goes missing, evidence discovered by a remote, abandoned bridge suggests she was murdered. A killer remains at large—and potentially still within the community—in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

If you have any information on the disappearance of Angela Freeman, please call the Petal Police Department at 601-544-5331, or the Perry County Sheriff’s Office at 601-964-8461.

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0:00.0	When a young Mississippi mom-to-be goes missing, evidence discovered by a remote, abandoned bridge suggests she was murdered.
0:07.6	A killer remains at large and potentially still within the community in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
0:33.4	I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co-host, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night.
0:38.8	And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott.
0:41.3	A quick heads up. This episode contains mention of sexual assault.
0:45.7	We won't go into any graphic detail, but still, please listen with care.
0:50.0	Angela Freeman was last seen alive on September 10, 1993.
0:57.4	She was 17 years old at the time and lived in Petal, Mississippi. Petal is a small town located just outside of Hattiesburg. At the time, it was home to
1:03.8	less than 8,000 people. The Leaf River separates the two towns, and interestingly, there's more than just a body of
1:10.6	water dividing the
1:11.5	communities. Scott, you're probably already aware that the violent crime rate in the state of
1:16.6	Mississippi is pretty high. It's one of the highest, if I remember correctly. Yeah, statistically
1:21.8	speaking, Mississippi is the least wealthy state in the U.S., and we know that high poverty rates and high crime
1:28.2	rates go hand in hand. So it's probably no surprise that Hattiesburg, the fifth largest city
1:34.1	in the state, does have a high violent crime rate. What may surprise you, though, is that the same is
1:39.9	not true for the neighboring community of Petal, where Angela lived. It actually has an incredibly low violent crime rate.
1:48.1	I'm guessing it's also not nearly as impoverished.
1:51.7	Yeah, the poverty rates in Petal are lower than in Hattiesburg, but it's still not a wealthy
1:56.8	community, so I think there's more to it than just economics.
2:03.2	Now, Petal has actually been declared the safest city in the entire state of Mississippi several times over. In 2023, it was the only
2:09.8	town in the entire state to not experience a single murder or robbery, so pretty impressive.
2:15.9	That's better than most cities in America.
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