Virginia Erickson

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

October 21, 1973, was a Sunday. Typically, 32-year-old Virginia Erickson would attend church on Sundays, where she played the piano. But on that particular Sunday, Virginia and her husband, David, were going hunting instead. Virginia and David's nephew picked up their six children that morning from their home in Sweet Home, Oregon, and brought them to church. When the children returned, their mother was gone. David never reported his wife missing. Virginia had previously maintained consistent contact with her family in Washington, but they also stopped hearing from her. Disturbing information would later surface about what was happening inside the Erickson home, information that could be the motive behind Virginia Erickson's disappearance.

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0:19.0	I remember I had dreams there for quite a few years that inside the house
0:23.0	before we had left, I had gotten his gun and it was such a big gun. I was setting in the doorway with the gun
0:30.0	against the framework and I told him to stop and he kept pulling at me and I kept shooting,
0:36.0	he was shooting, he was shooting, he wouldn't die. And one of my psychiatrists,
0:40.0	counselor or something, he was telling me that he was just too strong for me at that time.
0:45.0	So I couldn't have done anything with always a guilty in my mind that I wasn't able to protect my sisters.
0:52.0	He told him, he never meant to hurt him, he was teaching him how to be a wife.
0:58.0	October 21st 1973 was a Sunday.
1:02.0	Typically, 32-year-old Virginia Ericsson would attend church on Sunday mornings where she played the piano.
1:08.0	But on that particular Sunday, Virginia and her husband David were going hunting instead.
1:14.0	Virginia and David's nephew came and picked up their six children that morning from their home in sweet home Oregon
1:20.0	and brought them to church. When the children returned later that day, their mother was gone and David never reported his wife missing.
1:29.0	Virginia had previously kept in contact with her family in Washington but they too stopped hearing from her.
1:36.0	Disturbing information would later surface about what was happening inside the Ericsson home.
1:42.0	Information that could be the motive behind Virginia Ericsson's disappearance.
1:46.0	I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 411 of The Vanished, Virginia Ericsson's story.
1:54.0	Before we get started, just a brief disclaimer. This episode contains discussion of several distressing themes, including child sexual abuse, child abuse and intimate partner violence.
2:23.0	For additional resources visit Rain.org that's R-A-I-N-N dot org or call 1-800-656-4673.
2:33.0	Please take care while listening.
2:36.0	We were contacted in early April of 2023 by one of Virginia's granddaughters Trinity.
2:42.0	Trinity was interested in having her grandmother featured on the show and she explained that when she was just a child,
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