You think you know true crime podcasts? Wait till you hear Tonya's story.

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

When a daughter or sister disappears how does a family move on without closure? Host Brittany Luse is joined by Fresh Air co-host Tonya Mosley and and her nephew Antonio Wiley. The two produced She Has A Name, a documentary podcast that unravels the disappearance and death of Tonya's half-sister, Anita Wiley. Brittany, Tonya, and Antonio get into how Anita went missing, and how their show breaks the stereotypes of true crime podcasting.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast and the following message come from Dignity Memorial.
0:04.6	When your celebration of life is prepaid today, your family is protected tomorrow.
0:09.6	Planning ahead is truly one of the best gifts you can give your family.
0:13.7	For additional information visit dignity memorial.com.
0:17.1	Hello hello. I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's been a minute from NPR, a show about
0:26.0	what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. And a warning, warning, this segment touches on a violent death. Does your family have secrets that they just won't talk about?
0:47.0	Tanya Mosley's family had a few, and the silence around them was heavy,
0:52.0	until one day in 2004 when one of those secrets called
0:56.2	her up.
0:57.2	He said, my name is Antonio and I am your nephew.
1:02.3	A surprise nephew was just the start.
1:05.0	Antonio's mother was a half-sister Tanya never knew about.
1:08.8	They had the same father who kept his family separate.
1:11.7	What were you searching for when you contacted me? kept his mother,
1:13.0	family separate.
1:12.0	What were you searching for when you contacted me?
1:15.0	My aunt, you.
1:17.0	And then Antonio told her,
1:19.0	his mother Anita disappeared back in 1987 when she was in her late 20s. In all those years
1:25.7	Antonio never stopped searching for his mother. Antonio called Tanya because he
1:30.8	thought she might be able to help but Tanya didn't have a clue.
1:34.7	Then Antonio signed up for Operation United, a forensics program that aims to match DNA from
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