What Happened to Grandpa?
The Dating Detectives
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4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
A family mystery that lingered for generations finally cracks open in this mind-bending episode of Dating Detectives. What begins with a single, unexpected phone call pulls Taylor—and listeners—into a decades-long story that starts with her grandfather vanishing without a trace in 1952. As an unlikely kind of investigator begins pulling at one loose thread after another, a long-buried truth slowly comes into focus, forcing Taylor and her family to reconsider everything they thought they knew. It’s a story that asks a haunting question: how far can one person’s deception reach, and how long can its impact echo across generations after a disappearance becomes family legend?
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| 0:00.0 | The following program contains names, places, and events that have been anonymized or fictionalized for the purposes of protection and safety. |
| 0:08.7 | The following program is provided for entertainment purposes only, and any commentary from the hosts are strictly conjecture and should not be held as making any definitive statements about the truth or identity of any particular individuals or circumstances. |
| 0:21.4 | If you or a loved one are involved in an abusive relationship, |
| 0:24.2 | please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-723 for support. |
| 0:40.5 | Happy Dating Detectives Monday. |
| 0:44.5 | Oh, this story is like nothing we've had. |
| 0:49.3 | Today's episode, you guys, like dogfish to the max, but like throwback dogfish. This dogfish story starts in the year 1952. |
| 0:52.9 | Yes, 1952. |
| 0:53.9 | How about that? Starts in the year 1952. Yes, 1952. How about that? Starts in the year |
| 0:55.8 | 1952. Ends now. And we're just now doing a doing a podcast. Well, first of all, thank |
| 1:05.5 | you to Taylor, who is going to, you know, meet her in a second. She's a listener and is our |
| 1:10.4 | amazing guest today. And I'm |
| 1:11.9 | excited for you all to hear her story because it's, yeah, it's a different perspective, but I, |
| 1:16.9 | I, yeah, mind-blowing. I don't even know what else to say. And then we also have- |
| 1:21.6 | People and Time that it spans is crazy to me. This episode also deals with adoption and adoption trauma, biological |
| 1:31.8 | ancestry, and we talk a lot about the emotional side of that. So just be aware. And then we have |
| 1:39.7 | another type of investigator that worked on this case. And he's going to come into play and talk to us a little later on in the story. |
| 1:48.1 | So you'll have two for the price of one. |
| 1:51.8 | What a Monday. |
| 1:53.5 | Totally different kind of investigations. |
| 1:56.3 | Kind of cool. |
| 1:57.3 | Yeah. |
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