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On July 27, 2021, 5-year-old Michael Vaughn's father went to go check on Michael's younger sister in order of pizza.

He was out of the room for 15 to 20 minutes, but when he came back, his little boy was gone.

Police in Fruitland, Idaho, along with other agencies, launched a massive search, but no trace

of the boy was found. On November 11th, 2022, an arrest was made in his case, but those charges

were later dropped. Now, almost exactly three years later,

we have more arrests, and this time, the charges include murder. When a person goes missing,

there's a special kind of pain in the not knowing. I want to tell the stories of those who

never came home. Today, I want to tell you the story of Michael Vaughn.

I'm Cona Gallagher.

And I'm Ethan Flick.

And this is, and then they were gone.

I'm... Welcome back, everyone.

Thank you for joining us once again.

I'm Kona.

And I'm Ethan.

And we're the husband and wife team behind this podcast. Each week, I tell you the story of an unsolved missing person's case. Ethan doesn't know anything about the case going into the episode and is here to provide his reactions and questions

in real time, hopefully asking some of the same ones you have at home. Now, of course, this is a

little bit different because this is not only

if we covered the Michael Vaughn case before, but this is our second update that we've done on this.

So you do know about the story and do you remember when Sarah Wondra was arrested a few years ago?

We never really got a lot of answers then. And it was even after we put out

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