"WE SEARCHED INTO THE NIGHT": DARIUS, 6, VANISHES ON FAMILY CAMPING TRIP
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline
4.2 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Anne Bremner - Trial lawyer, Legal Analyst, and Author: “Justice in the Age of Judgment;" X: @annembremner, Instagram: @Anne_Bremner
- Caryn Stark - Forensic Psychologist, Renowned TV and Radio Trauma expert and Consultant; Instagram: carynpsych, FB: Caryn Stark Private Practice
- Dr. Trace Sargent - Search, Rescue & Recovery Expert, PhD in Psychology (with a focus on victimology - criminal profiling - predator behaviors - crime scene analysis); Director of Forensic Investigations and Analysis
- Brian Fitzgibbons - Former Marine and Iraq War Veteran, Director of Operations for USPA Nationwide Security (leads a team of investigators specializing in locating missing persons); Instagram: @uspa_nationwide_security
- Stephen Tipper - Southern Alberta Reporter for Postmedia
- Dave Mack - Crime Stories Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.0 | We searched into the night, says a desperate family after Little Darius, just six years old, |
| 0:19.7 | vanishes on an extended family camping trip. |
| 0:24.9 | How could a little six-year-old boy vanish into thin air |
| 0:29.5 | while the adults were watching him play with other children? |
| 0:34.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:35.4 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:36.6 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:39.5 | What was meant to be a peaceful family getaway in the wilderness of Alberta, Canada, |
| 0:43.7 | has turned into a devastating mystery. The McDougal family, eager to create lasting memories, |
| 0:49.6 | was thrown into chaos when one of the young children wandered off. |
| 0:54.5 | I have taken the children from a very young age all across the country, RVing and camping. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm not sure how you lose a child on a camping trip, but it's happened a lot. |
| 1:10.5 | This isn't the first time a child has gone missing on a camping trip, but it's happened a lot. This isn't the first time a child has gone missing on a camping trip. |
| 1:14.7 | The parents, the grandparents, there was extended family or family friends there. |
| 1:20.1 | They were all packing to leave and go back home. |
| 1:24.1 | And you know, when you're packing, packing up the RV or the station wagon or the SUV, |
| 1:30.3 | you turn your back, right? |
| 1:32.3 | You're loading it up, everything's running crazy. |
| 1:36.3 | But how could a little boy vanish into thin air and be gone so quickly he can't be found. Okay, let's start at the beginning. Listen. |
| 1:48.2 | Six-year-old Darius on a camping trip with dad, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, |
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