Lost In Panama

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True Crime, Talk Radio

4 • 1.2K Ratings

Overview

In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama. Two months later, investigators found their remains, as well as a backpack with a digital camera filled with photos that hinted at a darker story. What happened to Kris and Lisanne? In this investigative series, journalists Mariana Atencio and Jeremy Kryt retrace the last steps of the doomed women. Their search for the truth immerses them in eight years’ worth of conflicting evidence, testimonies, and rumors, as on-the-ground witnesses in Panama come forward for the first time. This explosive new evidence sets off a real-time race to reopen the case, and finally get justice for Kris and Lisanne.

20 Episodes

Lost in Baja

Brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their friend Carter Rhoad traveled to Mexico’s Baja region in search of the perfect surfing spot. When they uncharacteristically stopped responding to text messages, their families immediately feared the worst.

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2024

Lost In Florida

In 1997, William Moldt was a successful businessman living in Southern Florida. But after a night out at a local night club, Moldt just disappeared. Vanished into thin air. Two decades later, a man researching school bus stops on the internet made an incredible discovery.

Transcribed - Published: 23 June 2024

Lost In: N844AA Part 2

On 25 May, 2003, both Ben Padilla, an American flight engineer, and a massive 727 airliner disappeared from an airport in Angola. In part two of this story, we dive into first-person accounts of the aftermath, and what might have happened to N844AA.

Transcribed - Published: 16 June 2024

Lost in Air: N844AA - Part 1

As the sunset on 25 May, 2003, a Boeing 727 airliner was stolen from an airport in Angola. The pilot, Ben Padilla, was an American flight engineer sent to Africa by his company to retrieve the plane and prepare it to make the long flight back to the U.S. 20 years later, the plane and its pilot are still missing, despite a worldwide search by the FBI and international intelligence agencies.

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2024

Vigilante - Byron David Smith: THE DEER HUNTER

Byron Smith was tired of his home being burgled. He said it had been broken into at least a half dozen times. And he was determined not to let it happen again. So, Smith set a trap and laid in wait to protect his “castle.” When two teenage cousins broke into his house on Elm Street, it set off a true-life horror story. Listen to Vigilante: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vigilante/id1622288667 https://open.spotify.com/show/49wzulSXKQKWYOIWoTVEPT?si=0d4c8835885e4fa1

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2024

Welcome To Varnamtown! Available now!

Two years ago, Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks, called investigative journalist Joshua Davis with a strange story. Kyle had heard a rumor that Pablo Escobar did a deal in the early 1980s with a remote, coastal Southern town of 300 people. In exchange for vast wealth and limitless cocaine, Escobar would be allowed to land planes and ships in the area. Over the last 24 months, Josh and Kyle investigated the rumor, journeying to Varnamtown to knock on doors and find out what really happens when a firehose of money and cocaine is turned on a small, tight knit community. Listen to and follow Varnamtown at Apple Podcasts now! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/varnamtown/id1725195343

Transcribed - Published: 25 January 2024

The Aftershow - Episode 7