This is Deborah Roberts here with another weekly episode of our latest series from 2020 and ABC Audio,

Vanished. What Happened to Vanessa?

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the killer nurse from ID. From 1989 to 1995, nurse Karen Gilbert killed four of her patients

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The day Vanessa Guillen goes missing, she has plans with a fellow soldier, one of her closest friends on the base, TAY Hightower.

The plan was to go hiking whenever she got off work.

That morning, Vanessa is supposed to locate and tag four broken weapons. It's easy work that should have taken only a few hours.

And she suspected it was going to be a half day, so she would probably get off at around lunchtime.

It's April 22nd, 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

They haven't been able to hang out as often,

so they're looking forward to spending time together,

getting outside.

At 8 a.m., Vanessa sends Tay a screenshot of the day's weather report.

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