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On July 12, 1987, 18-year-old Vickie Carriere was spending time with her boyfriend. Vickie was eight and a half months pregnant and eagerly awaiting the arrival of her baby boy. That day, the couple was at his family’s fishing camp before starting the drive back to Vickie’s home in Waggaman, Louisiana.
According to her boyfriend, who was also the baby’s father, they stopped at a local convenience store, just minutes from her home. He said he went inside to buy a soda for Vickie and chocolate milk for himself. When he returned to the car, Vickie and all of her belongings were gone.
When she didn’t come home that night, her parents were immediately alarmed. It wasn’t like Vickie to disappear, especially so close to her due date. They feared for both their daughter and the grandson they were so ready to welcome. In the days that followed, those fears deepened. Vickie missed her baby shower, and then her due date came and went without a word. More than 38 years later, Vickie’s family is still searching for answers, and for the baby boy she never got to hold.
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0:00.0 | Every aspect of our lives changed and kind of has circled around my and Vicki's disappearance. |
0:15.9 | I feel like all signs are pointing to him. |
0:18.2 | We just don't have the proof to get the exact story. And I feel like people are just thinking we're going to let it go because it happened so long ago. But, I mean, like I said, it just affects our family so much. We just can't let it go. Especially us cousins being so close to each other, he would have been our first cousin and we just have always longed for him. If he's alive, we want to know him. We want to have a relationship with him if we can because we're just so close. We grew up as like siblings. We all grew up in the same household together. We all spent every second of our childhood together and we just never got that with him. I heard that they got together and said she had to disappear within two weeks. Sure enough, that's when |
0:54.7 | she went to the camp to be with him. She called me that morning, Sunday morning, and she said, Mother, can you come get me? So I said, well, how do I get there? Joe grabbed the phone. And he says, oh, it's all right. And I said, no, I need her to come home. He hung up. And there he comes over without Becky. |
0:51.2 | And I said, where's my door? |
0:52.7 | And he said, oh, she took us. |
0:54.5 | It's all. needed her to come home. He hung up. That day, he comes over without Vicki. And I said, where's my |
1:12.0 | door? And he said, oh, she took us. It's all bullshit. On July 12, 1987, 18-year-old Vicky Carrier was |
1:20.9 | spending time with her boyfriend. Vicky was eight and a half months pregnant and eagerly awaiting |
1:25.9 | the arrival of her baby boy. That day, the |
1:28.8 | couple was at his family's fishing camp before starting to drive back to Vicky's home in Wagamon, Louisiana. |
1:35.2 | According to her boyfriend, who was also the baby's father, they stopped at a local convenience |
1:40.1 | store just around the corner from Vicky's home. He said that he went inside to buy a |
1:44.7 | Coke for Vicky and a chocolate milk for himself. But when he returned to the car, Vicky and all |
1:50.4 | of her belongings were gone. When she didn't come home that night, Vicky's parents were immediately |
1:55.6 | alarmed. It wasn't like Vicky to disappear, especially so close to her due date. |
2:01.3 | They feared for both their daughter and the grandson they were so ready to welcome into the world. |
2:06.4 | In the days that followed, those fears deepened. |
2:09.1 | Vicky missed her baby shower. |
2:10.8 | Then her due date, August 7th, came and went without a word. |
2:15.0 | More than 38 years later, Vicki's family is still searching for answers as to |
2:19.4 | what happened to her, and also the baby boy they never got to hold. I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, |
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