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Dateline NBC

Vanished

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, Sandi Johnson, a devoted mother, mysteriously vanishes the day before her son’s 5th birthday party. Andrea Canning reports. Originally aired on NBC on May 9, 2014.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everyone says that you and your sister were your mom's life.

0:05.0

Yeah, an amazing person.

0:07.0

Committed the family, committed the to my sister and I.

0:10.0

And then five years later, gone.

0:16.0

She was a gorgeous girl, a model who became a mom.

0:19.0

Said you guys made some good-looking kids.

0:21.0

Oh, they sure do.

0:22.0

On the eve of her son's fifth birthday, she vanished.

0:26.0

The whole time we're all trying to talk without the kids hearing us about where she would happen.

0:31.0

When a woman disappears, we know police will have questions for the man in her life.

0:36.0

In this case, that wouldn't be so simple.

0:39.0

There was the estranged husband who admitted to an argument that once landed him in jail.

0:45.0

She came out of me and I grabbed her and by the arms and then she called the police.

0:49.0

Then there was the secret boyfriend who wasn't telling all he knew.

0:54.0

It was suspicious to police that he wasn't upfront about that from the beginning.

0:58.0

And there was a third man.

1:00.0

The former colleague with a crush.

1:03.0

Cliff shared with friends that he had found the love of his life.

1:07.0

So you have three potential suspects?

1:10.0

Yeah, it's a tangled.

1:11.0

Court investigators unravel it.

1:14.0

We're asking ourselves what does this mean?

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