Up and Vanished Weekly | VANISHED: Richard Cox

Up and Vanished

Tenderfoot TV

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

When 21 year old Richard Cox - a cadet at West Point Military Academy - missed evening curfew on Saturday, January 14th, 1950, his roommates quickly became concerned. As authorities began investigating, their interest soon narrowed on an old friend who had recently reappeared in Richard’s life. Listen in as Maggie is joined by Laurah Norton, host of “One Strange Thing” and “The Fall Line” as the two discuss Richard’s mysterious disappearance, the possibility he was helped in going AWOL, or whether he could have been an early recruit of a covert agency.Up and Vanished Weekly is available wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Tenderfoot TV podcast.
0:09.4	Hey, Up and Vanish listeners, it's Rob.
0:12.8	We wanted to share with you that over the next month,
0:15.2	we'll be spotlighting episodes of our new sister series,
0:18.5	Up and Vanished Weekly,
0:20.2	hosted by Payne Lindsay and Maggie Freeling.
0:23.6	Every week, Up and Vanish Weekly dives into a new missing or murdered person's case, bringing
0:29.6	you interviews with experts and advocates who take you behind the scenes of the investigation.
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1:10.2	This podcast discusses mature and sensitive content, including descriptions of violence
1:15.7	that may be triggering for some audiences.
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1:36.3	It's the evening of Saturday, January 14, 1950, a cold dreary night in upstate New York. At West Point Military Academy, students are returning from winter break. Like many other cadets,
1:43.3	21-year-old Richard Cox is preparing to start a new semester.
1:47.6	Those close to Richard can tell that something's been off with him lately. He doesn't seem very
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