Cold and Missing: Yvonne Reglar

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Missing are exclusively those of the hosts. All

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proven guilty in a court of law. Cold and Missing

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also contains adult themes and languages. Listener

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discretion is advised. I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin

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-Sulkowski. And I'm your co -host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover

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cold cases and missing person cases. Hello, everyone,

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and welcome back to Cold and Missing. I'm your

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host, Ali . And I'm your co -host, Eli. Welcome

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back, everyone. We did have to take a week off

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last week. Both of us came down with quite the

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cold. So I was not fun to listen to, as I was

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told by many of my co -workers last week. So

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we took the week off to rest and recover. But

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we are back this week. Eli is back this week.

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He had a little break in his rehearsal schedule.

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So we wanted to get on here and bring you a new

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episode. Yeah, we are back this week, and we

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are on episode 157. And if you're new here, I

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always encourage new listeners to go back and

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listen to episodes that we've put out previously.

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We have over 150. Yeah, I encourage you to go

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take a listen to those. Absolutely, but we'll

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just go ahead and get into this week's case.

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We are on a missing person case this week. All

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right, let's get into it. Let's do it. So just

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as a bit of a content warning at the top, this

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case does involve a young person. Today, we are

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talking about the missing person case of Yvonne

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Reglar .And this takes place in August of 1977

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in Fairview Park, Ohio. But first, a little bit

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about Yvonne. Yvonne Reglar had just turned 17

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years old in the summer of 1977. She was born

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on July 11th and she was just weeks away from

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starting her senior year. She was a good student

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who routinely earned A's and B's and never caused

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her teachers or parents much trouble. She was

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tall. She was around 5 '10 and 135 pounds with

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brown hair and blue eyes. She lived in North

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Olmstead, Ohio with her mother and stepfather.

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Yvonne's biological father had died when she

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was young, and her stepfather had been there

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for most of her life. Yvonne also had a part

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-time job. She had been working for about a year

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as an attendant at a Sunoco gas station. She

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was considered a top employee for her age. She

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was reliable and dependable. Overall, it seems

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that Yvonne was a wonderful friend, a hard worker,

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and a good student. Someone who had a very bright

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future ahead of her. And now a timeline of events.

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Monday, August 8th, 1977. That day started off

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like any other day for Yvonne. However, her schedule

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was going to be disrupted in the morning, but

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she wasn't quite aware of it yet. She had been

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working at a Sunoco gas station in North Olmsted

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for about a year. But that week, and specifically

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that Monday, the manager at a different Sunoco

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in nearby Fairview Park was going on vacation

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for the week. According to reports, Yvonne was

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selected last minute to cover for him. It was

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going to be her first day at the new station.

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She just didn't know it yet when she woke up

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that morning. When she woke up, she started getting

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ready for work just like any other day. She was

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wearing a yellow t -shirt and blue jean shorts.

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She was scheduled to work the morning shift,

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7 a .m. to 3 p .m. Her parents saw her get ready

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that morning. At around 6 .25 a .m., they left

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the house to go fishing on Lake Erie. Yvonne's

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boyfriend was picking her up at around 6 .30

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to drive her for work. Yvonne didn't drive. As

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they were leaving, Yvonne told her parents, quote,

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There was nothing unusual about the exchange.

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Nothing to suggest it would be the last time

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they would see her. Yvonne first arrived at her

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normal store in North Olmstead at 7 a .m. From

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there, her manager Rick informed her that she

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would be filling in at the store in Fairview

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Park. Rick drove her to the Fairview Park location.

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Yvonne was dropped off and the morning seemed

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to run as normal from there. At noon, Rick stopped

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by to check on her and dropped off a sandwich.

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He didn't report anything out of the ordinary.

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Throughout the morning, Yvonne made several calls

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to friends from the gas station. They made plans

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to see a movie later that evening. One of her

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friends will report that they talked on the phone

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around 1 in the afternoon and confirmed that

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they were seeing a movie that night. While they

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were on the phone, the bell rang, signaling a

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customer had pulled in and Yvonne would need

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to go pump the gas. At this particular Sunoco

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station, there was one gas pump that was not

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self -service, so the attendant would have to

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come out and put the gas in the car. The friend

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said Yvonne mentioned a car was there for help,

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but it drove off. They continued talking on the

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phone. Then the car came back. Yvonne told her

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friend she would call her back, but she never

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did. At approximately 1 .25, an attendant at

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a gas station across the street told police he

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saw Yvonne pumping gas at the one pump that was

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not self -service. She was assisting a woman

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who had paid with a credit card. At around 1

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.30, again, an attendant at a nearby station,

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I'm not sure if it's the same one, it's unclear

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in the reporting, said Yvonne had complained

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about a customer who left only $1 for $3 worth

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of gas. At 1 .45 p .m., a vending machine operator

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arrived at the gas station but found it empty.

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People began showing up to purchase gas, but

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nobody was there to help. Fairview Park Police

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Chief Paul Shepard would later say, quote, people

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showed up to use to purchase gas or do some work

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there and found the gas station empty. Originally

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in 1977, it was reported that at 2 .15, The next

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employee arrived. However, in 2024, police say

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that it was closer to 2 .45 p .m., so two different

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times, about a half -hour window there. When

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the next employee arrived, Gary, he could not

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find Yvonne anywhere. He waited. He expected

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Yvonne to return any minute, but she would never

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reappear. So at 2 .50 p .m., he called the police.

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When police arrived, Inside of the gas station,

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officers found Yvonne's purse. All of its contents

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were still inside, including all of her money.

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There was makeup inside. A few books she had

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brought to read at work remained unopened. Her

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thermos of iced tea sat there. The sandwich her

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manager had dropped off earlier remained untouched.

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The gas station showed no signs of a struggle.

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Nothing appeared to be missing. No one reported

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seeing Yvonne walk away or get into a car. No

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one noticed any commotion. The cash register

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was untouched. All of the money was accounted

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for. The only thing out of place was that the

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self -service pumps showed gas had been taken

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without payment. Initially, police did not believe

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she had simply walked away from her job, and

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her parents thought the same thing. Her stepfather

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said, quote, I can't believe she ran away. She's

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a very responsible girl. She also had made plans

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with her friends to go to the movies that night.

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And just the weekend before, it's Monday that

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she goes missing, so just that past weekend,

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she had bought a dress to wear to the funeral

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of a friend's father that was due to take place

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later that week. By all accounts, she had no

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plans of running away and had lots of plans coming

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up that week. The next day, Tuesday, August 9th,

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police began searching for Yvonne and interviewing

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family, friends, and co -workers to determine

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whether she could have been a runaway. Police

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continue this search for days. On Thursday, August

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11th, Yvonne has been missing since Monday. There

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was still no sign of her. Police and her parents

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fear that she had been abducted. Lieutenant Fred

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Nippenberg says, quote, The station location

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is a busy area, and no one remembers seeing anything

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unusual. We're going to start all over again

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interviewing people. Police had searched around

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the Sunoco station. They had searched the high

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cliffs along the south side of Lorraine Road

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in the Rocky River Reservation as well to see

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if there had been any sign of her, and still

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there was nothing. On Friday, August 12th, The

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FBI joined the search after an airline clerk

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reported that on Tuesday or Wednesday, a girl

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fitting Yvonne's description purchased a ticket

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for a 10 a .m. flight to Miami. The young woman

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paid in $1 bills and 50 -cent pieces. She had

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no luggage and she was traveling alone. While

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the police and FBI are looking into this tip,

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the next day, Saturday, August 13th, Police get

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another lead from a truck driver who said a young

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woman approached him at a rest area along Route

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2 near Port Clinton early Thursday morning and

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asked for a ride to Toledo, Ohio. No one could

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think of any reason that Yvonne would want to

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go to Toledo. But still, police go to that area

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to look for her. However, neither one of these

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leads, the trucker or the airline lead, result

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in any clues about Yvonne. On Wednesday, August

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17th, so Yvonne has been missing for a week and

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a half at this point, Lieutenant John Hall said,

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quote, we're exactly where we were on the day

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after her disappearance. The strange thing is,

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is she left her purse behind in the station.

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That's the thing that bothers me more than anything

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else. However, Pretty quickly, the case seems

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to go cold. Police never really are able to turn

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up any leads in these first few weeks of investigation

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to point to any direction that Yvonne could have

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gone. In November of 1977, the investigation

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had stalled. The case was getting colder by the

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day, and it had been over three months since

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Yvonne vanished. Police began looking into Richard

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Allen Wright. who had been serving time for kidnapping

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and sexually assaulting an 18 -year -old from

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the same area in Ohio between 1972 and 1975.

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So that would have been five years before Yvonne

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vanished. However, he had escaped from prison

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and was on the run during the time of her disappearance.

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During his escape, he kidnapped a schoolteacher

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and held her captive for 12 days. The schoolteacher

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managed to escape. When police went to his trailer

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after, police found blood and hair that did not

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belong to the teacher, and they began wondering

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if this could be a link to Yvonne. They contacted

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Yvonne's parents for her blood type and a hair

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sample for comparison. According to her mother,

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she had to dig through Yvonne's clothes to find

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a single hair clinging to any of her clothes.

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However, the evidence did not match Yvonne. About

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a month later, so it's been over four months

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now, that Yvonne has been missing. Police traveled

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to Pennsylvania to interview a college student

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who believed that he had picked up Yvonne in

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Pennsylvania as a hitchhiker and had driven her

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to a nearby town. The student had recently seen

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a missing person poster and recognized her as

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the girl he had picked up. He wasn't sure of

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the date, but believed it was after her disappearance.

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Police questioned people in the area and searched

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for any other sign of Yvonne, but they didn't

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find anything. In August of 1978, so it's been

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a full year that Yvonne has been missing, one

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of her friends says, quote, Initially, police

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believed that this was an abduction, as I had

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spoken about earlier. But, As no ransom demands

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were made and no body was recovered, they began

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to believe that she may have actually run away.

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This is also fueled by the fact that tips have

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come in from people claiming they had picked

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her up as a hitchhiker. Her parents monitored

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her bank account. There had been no activity

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on it. Police theorized that issues with her

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stepfather may have led her to run away. One

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of her friends, Kathy, said, quote, Kathy and

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another friend also told reporters that Yvonne

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had an ex -boyfriend she wanted to get back at.

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Quote, These friends were convinced she had staged

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the mysterious circumstances around her disappearance.

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Her parents never believed any of that. They

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believed that she had been abducted. And still

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no firm sign or clue of Yvonne ever popped up.

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In July of 1980, so just shy of three years,

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still no sign of her. The most recent tip that

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police had received at this point? had come from

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somebody who had seen a model in a hairstyle

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magazine who resembled Yvonne, so they called

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it in. Police did investigate this, but the woman

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was not Yvonne. Police said that the case was

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technically still active, simply because it was

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unsolved. In August of 1981, so four years, police

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admitted they no longer knew what happened to

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Yvonne. Though they once believed that she ran

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away, that had been their most recent working

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theory, it had been months and years since they

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had had any other sightings come in of her, and

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they were never able to confirm that any of the

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sightings they did get were actually Yvonne.

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So the case truly goes cold after this. It takes

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years and years for an update to come. The last

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update really seems to come in 2024, so very

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recently. It had been 47 years since Yvonne disappeared.

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A cold case unit had announced that they were

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reopening her case in hopes of finally getting

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answers. Also created around this time is an

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aged progressed photo of Yvonne of what she would

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look like in her 60s, which is around the age

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she would be today. But there have truly been

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no new updates or developments in Yvonne's case

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since that first day that she went missing. So

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if you know anything about the disappearance

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of Yvonne in August of 1977 or her whereabouts

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today, please call the Fairview Park Police at

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440 -356 -4415. So that is the missing person

00:16:17.799 --> 00:16:20.899
case of Yvonne Reglar. Before we get into the

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timeline, just to talk about Yvonne a little

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bit, to echo what you said, you know, she was

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a young woman starting on the precipice of a

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new horizon, you know, her life beginning after

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high school. And, you know, she had a job that

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she was working at. It seemed like her life was

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in the beginning stages of budding and blooming

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into what the next stages would be. And I'd love

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to just find answers for this case, you know,

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for a life to be what seems like it ended abruptly.

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Whether she is here or not, to me, is still so

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worthy of... We've covered a lot of cases like

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this where it's young women who just seem to

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disappear off the face of the earth. It doesn't

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get any easier when we cover the next one. But

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cases like these, they scare me. They scare me

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in the way that the people disappear. So I'm

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really glad that you brought Yvonne's case to

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us. Yeah, I... deeply deeply believe and I've

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said it before on this podcast and I'll say it

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again on this podcast but in this country in

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this day and age there should be no reason that

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anybody goes missing and we just like don't have

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the answers for it um especially children especially

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children I Yvonne is 17 years old to me like

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she is still a child and um you know just there's

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no I feel like there's no excuses we we should

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always know where children are and we should

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always have answers if we don't. So yeah, as

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soon as I saw Yvonne's case and looked into it,

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I definitely knew it was one that I wanted to

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bring to Cold and Missing simply because I didn't

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know it and I'm sure other listeners have not

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heard of her case either. Going right into the

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timeline of the day she disappeared, I do think

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it's worth noting again, you know, even though

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that you said it, that there was a major change

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in what her workday looked like. I don't know

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if she had swapped gas stations before or had

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done it after she had already arrived to the

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place that she was supposed to be working at,

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but that decision being made and kind of being

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made for her, yes, I do see how that could be

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a regular part of your job, but to me it's noticeable

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that On this day, when she started working at

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a different place, the worst thing that could

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have happened to her did. And some part of me

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can't believe that that is just how it happened.

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There's a part of me that wonders if there was

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a design in that decision being made that she

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would work at a different location on that day.

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Yeah, it's something you... completely have to

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think about when you look at the timeline for

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the day, such a disruption in her schedule. From

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everything I can tell, it looks like Yvonne arrived

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at her normal gas station that she typically

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worked at in North Olmstead. And then once she

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got there, she was informed that she was actually

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going to work at this other one in a nearby town

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in Fairview Park. So the manager of her store

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drove her to the other store. and set her up

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and yeah it's it's um you have to think like

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was uh her switching stores part of um an ultimate

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plan to to uh get her into a car that day or

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was it just putting her at the wrong place at

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the wrong time just putting her there um it's

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very um Curious if it's just a coincidence or

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if it's if it's planned. Yeah. Lots of questions

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around that. Now, while she's at the Fairview

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gas station, we know that she's taking calls.

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She's doing her job. And during a phone call,

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she mentions that there is a car that comes up.

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takes off again, that's the first red flag for

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me, is that there was a car that rang for service

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and then left and then came back. And I'm not

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sure if this was the same car, but the possibility

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of one of those cars only paying a dollar for

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$3 worth of gas. So all of those things were

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noticeable to me. They were small disruptions

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that were happening for her while she was working.

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Yeah, so there's a couple of things that happens

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like right in there. So I'm glad you brought

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it up. So, yeah, she's on the phone. The bell

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rings. There's a car there. But then the car

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pulls off. So she just stays on the phone with

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her friend. The bell rings again. She tells her

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friend the same car is back. So that is what

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the friend reported. She goes out to help because

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there is one. pump at the gas station that the

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attendant has to has to do it so she goes to

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help and put the put the gas in the car and i

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think this could be the woman that she is helping

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with because the attendant across the street

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sees her at like 125 helping a woman i don't

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know though if uh this is a different person

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it could be it could not be um but if it's a

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different person if that if the woman wasn't

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the one who Drove up, drove off, then came back

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again. Then I'm very curious about who that person

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is that drove off and then decided to come back

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because I would just be curious to know what

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they know and what they saw. the vendor shows

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up and she's not there. So it's a 15 -minute

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window ultimately from the time somebody last

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reports seeing her and the time that somebody

00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:03.980
really notices that she's not there. Yeah, I

00:23:03.980 --> 00:23:07.000
think one of the big questions for that moment

00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:12.859
in the timeline is, did she get into a car? Was

00:23:12.859 --> 00:23:17.980
she pulled into a car? And if so, was it visible

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to anyone? And I think the answer to that is

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no, but it must have happened so quickly to make

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it be that way, to make it not be a noticeable

00:23:30.859 --> 00:23:36.180
moment of either her getting into a car or being

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pulled in. I feel like this moment in the timeline

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really circles right around that, and we just

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don't have any information. Yeah. Looking at

00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.039
all of this, there's really no part of me that

00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:58.079
believes that Yvonne ran away. I really do think

00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:02.680
that this is an abduction, that she was pulled

00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:08.480
into a car. I think it very unlikely she got

00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:12.000
talked into a car just because of the type of

00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.720
employee she was. She was very responsible. She

00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:16.660
was dependable. I don't think she's the type

00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:19.299
that... Someone could convince her to like get

00:24:19.299 --> 00:24:23.140
in a car and like skip work for a couple of hours.

00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:26.980
So I think if somebody got her in the car, it

00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:32.259
was by force. And yeah, to your point, it had

00:24:32.259 --> 00:24:34.900
to have been quick. Like that's one thing that

00:24:34.900 --> 00:24:37.160
like the cops at the time made them kind of think

00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:39.099
that maybe she did run away was because nobody

00:24:39.099 --> 00:24:41.759
saw anything. Nobody heard anything. It's a busy

00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:43.920
street. You know, the attendants had seen her

00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:47.519
before that. You know, that was kind of fueling

00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:49.940
them to think that she did run away because how

00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:52.460
could nobody see nothing? But it really seems

00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:56.819
that nobody saw anything. Yeah, same for me as

00:24:56.819 --> 00:24:59.500
well. One of the first things I wrote down was,

00:24:59.579 --> 00:25:03.980
to me, this does not read as a runaway. Just

00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:06.779
the simple fact of her stuff was left behind

00:25:06.779 --> 00:25:10.980
and she was making active plans for later in

00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:18.220
that evening to go see a movie. a ruse. I think

00:25:18.220 --> 00:25:20.680
she was having a regular day to echo what you're

00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:25.259
saying. I believe that she was abducted. Yeah.

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And, you know, just to further drive home the

00:25:28.279 --> 00:25:30.839
point of her plans, like over that past weekend,

00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:33.799
she had bought a dress for a funeral that I believe

00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:35.480
was happening on like Tuesday or Wednesday of

00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:37.759
that week. A friend's dad had passed away. So

00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:41.240
she was attending the funeral. And she strikes

00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:45.569
me. as a friend who would not leave another friend

00:25:45.569 --> 00:25:49.150
during this time that would show up for her friend

00:25:49.150 --> 00:25:53.910
during this. So, yeah, I do not think that she

00:25:53.910 --> 00:25:57.009
ran during this time at all. At all. Yeah, I

00:25:57.009 --> 00:25:59.869
mean, down to her character and how you described

00:25:59.869 --> 00:26:03.250
her, she sounds like a friend who just, period,

00:26:03.369 --> 00:26:06.750
shows up. Or that she shows up to her job, shows

00:26:06.750 --> 00:26:09.069
up to school, shows up in friendships, shows

00:26:09.069 --> 00:26:12.170
up for her family. This is a present. person

00:26:12.170 --> 00:26:15.890
and active in their life. To me, it does not

00:26:15.890 --> 00:26:18.849
read as someone who is planning to leave that

00:26:18.849 --> 00:26:22.930
life. I really want to see answers in Yvonne's

00:26:22.930 --> 00:26:25.529
case, especially with it being reopened. Like,

00:26:25.549 --> 00:26:29.529
I really want to see investigators go after this

00:26:29.529 --> 00:26:32.029
case like they should have, you know, right when

00:26:32.029 --> 00:26:34.069
she disappeared, like they should have treated

00:26:34.069 --> 00:26:37.109
it as an abduction from day one. Unfortunately,

00:26:38.059 --> 00:26:42.200
That did not happen, and now we're here over

00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:46.619
47 years later. I really want to see answers

00:26:46.619 --> 00:26:50.539
for Yvonne and for her family, for those that

00:26:50.539 --> 00:26:54.200
have known and loved her. Yeah, the case did

00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:56.539
move slowly, even though there were small blips

00:26:56.539 --> 00:26:59.279
of her being mentioned that maybe she was seen

00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:03.779
hitchhiking or went to Toledo or even the other

00:27:03.779 --> 00:27:07.730
guy that escaped prison and there was... A possibility

00:27:07.730 --> 00:27:10.650
that maybe he did something while he was out.

00:27:11.829 --> 00:27:15.490
Even all of those reveals as we move through

00:27:15.490 --> 00:27:19.009
her timeline were years apart. That information

00:27:19.009 --> 00:27:24.369
came out slowly. And one of those moments resulted

00:27:24.369 --> 00:27:27.329
in her mom having to dig through her clothes

00:27:27.329 --> 00:27:32.670
to find her hair. I can't even imagine what doing

00:27:32.670 --> 00:27:36.390
something like that would do to a person. Just

00:27:36.390 --> 00:27:38.410
knowing that the parents, that her parents were

00:27:38.410 --> 00:27:42.829
committed to doing anything to help find their

00:27:42.829 --> 00:27:48.670
child, it's very harrowing, but it gives me the

00:27:48.670 --> 00:27:51.390
feeling that there are answers out there for

00:27:51.390 --> 00:27:54.710
this family. I do still think that this case

00:27:54.710 --> 00:27:59.940
is so worthy of bringing her home. Yeah, Yvonne

00:27:59.940 --> 00:28:03.480
deserves to come home and however that looks,

00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.240
she deserves to come home and she deserves to

00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:10.359
rest and have a place to rest at home. So if

00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:12.319
you know anything about Yvonne's disappearance

00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:17.160
in August of 1977 or her whereabouts today, please

00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:22.619
call the Fairview Park Police at 440 -356 -4415.

00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:27.259
We will have pictures of Yvonne on our Instagram

00:28:27.259 --> 00:28:30.019
at coldandmissing, as well as the age progress

00:28:30.019 --> 00:28:32.000
photos that I mentioned. We'll have that on there

00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.839
as well. Please share these far and wide. Let's

00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:36.859
get her case out there. Let's get the age progress

00:28:36.859 --> 00:28:39.920
photo out there. And let's get energy behind

00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:42.819
her case and people talking about her. I really

00:28:42.819 --> 00:28:45.519
hope that resources are just like poured into

00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.720
her case. So that way we can see it solved. We've

00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.140
seen a lot of cold cases solved recently. So

00:28:51.140 --> 00:28:53.799
I'd love to see this one solved too. And as I

00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.000
mentioned, if you're not following us at coldandmissing

00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:58.279
on Instagram, if we ever need to take a week

00:28:58.279 --> 00:29:01.339
off, I always try to update there either via

00:29:01.339 --> 00:29:03.779
a post or in our story. So please watch out for

00:29:03.779 --> 00:29:05.970
it there. And if you're looking for some of our

00:29:05.970 --> 00:29:08.049
old episodes, like Eli mentioned at the top of

00:29:08.049 --> 00:29:10.069
the episode, you can find those on our website,

00:29:10.230 --> 00:29:14.450
www .coldandmissing .com. We also have transcripts

00:29:14.450 --> 00:29:16.670
there. So if you or someone you love is hard

00:29:16.670 --> 00:29:18.549
of hearing, you can follow along with the official

00:29:18.549 --> 00:29:21.809
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00:29:21.809 --> 00:29:23.710
leave us a five -star review today, that would

00:29:23.710 --> 00:29:26.190
be so great. It really helps others find this

00:29:26.190 --> 00:29:28.670
podcast, give the podcast a chance, give it a

00:29:28.670 --> 00:29:31.089
listen. And quite frankly, giving it five stars

00:29:31.089 --> 00:29:33.630
is going to get Yvonne's case listened to because

00:29:33.869 --> 00:29:36.390
she's right at the top. So that's who they're

00:29:36.390 --> 00:29:38.990
going to click on and listen to. So giving five

00:29:38.990 --> 00:29:41.650
stars really does advocate for these cases. I

00:29:41.650 --> 00:29:45.750
know I'm asking it for my podcast, but it gets

00:29:45.750 --> 00:29:47.690
the case information out there, which is why

00:29:47.690 --> 00:29:51.309
I'm asking for it. I promise if I didn't need

00:29:51.309 --> 00:29:54.410
to, I would not ask because we do not care about

00:29:54.410 --> 00:29:56.549
numbers or anything like that. We just want the

00:29:56.549 --> 00:29:59.250
case information out there. But that is all I

00:29:59.250 --> 00:30:01.430
have. Thank you so much for listening to Cold

00:30:01.430 --> 00:30:03.839
and Missing. I'm your host, Ali . And I'm your

00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:06.619
co -host, Eli. Have a good week and stay safe,

00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:08.079
y 'all. Stay safe, y 'all.