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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Vanished in the Valley: Young women gone missing in Los Angeles

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

(UPDATE: Laura Stacy was found alive hours after we posted this podcast! Details in next episode. ) Maricela Garcia and Laura Lynne Stacy didn’t know each other, but the young women share a common fate — both have gone missing in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in recent days. Garcia disappeared just blocks from where another Valley woman was found half-nude and bound after a four-hour-long kidnapping ordeal a day later. Nancy Grace and Alan Duke discuss the mysteries.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together.

0:22.4

Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to

0:28.3

your favorite podcast.

0:40.6

Friends and family are desperately searching for 26-year-old Madi Stella Garcia.

0:45.0

I'm really terrified. I don't even know what to think.

0:48.0

This is crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:51.3

She's like a great boxer. I'm just going to try to smoke cigarette.

0:54.7

And when I came out, she wasn't there. She tried calling. No answer in her phone was dead.

1:01.8

So I was okay. Let's not overwrapped. I sit in the rain by her car for like,

1:07.8

I don't even know. I lost track the time probably over 30, 40 minutes waiting for her and she

1:13.6

took me back. It is odd that she's walked away but we're still investigating it.

1:18.4

And what I am saying is that there's no evidence of foul play that we did to her.

1:22.0

She would never leave me alone. Like I was pretty young. We're sister. There's no way.

1:25.6

I see her every day. She doesn't just wander off by herself.

1:29.7

Two young women have gone missing and no, I'm not talking about the so-called Sherry Papini copycats.

1:38.9

I've already told you about three other women including Amy, Stacey, Roger Camp,

1:48.3

all three of those are unsolved although Amy's may have been an accidental death.

1:53.5

Not sure about that. I'm not talking about those three women that go missing in the wake of Sherry

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