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And Then They Were Gone

And Then They Were Gone

Little Monster Productions 304 Episodes Aug 21, 2026

Each week hosts Kona and Ethan go beyond the headlines and social media posts to do a deep dive into a different missing persons case. Do you hold the key to bringing someone home?

Episodes

Lashaya Stine
Lashaya Stine Aug 21, 2026 2663 On the night of July 14, 2016, a sixteen-year-old girl in Aurora, Colorado told her mother goodnight. She then went to her room and went out the window. She was picked up on surveillance video near a bus stop in the 1600 block of North Peoria Street. But Lashaya Stine never made it home.Police wrote Lashaya off as a runaway at first, but she wasn’t a troubled kid. She was an honors student. She wa
Update - Shane Workman
Update - Shane Workman Aug 14, 2026 979 Three bones, some clothing, a lighter, and a pocketknife. Those were the items found by a duck hunter checking his blinds on July 25, 2021. It took almost exactly five years to put the pieces together, but on July 23, 2026, those bones were identified as belonging to Shane Workman, who had been missing from Lewistown, Pennsylvania since 2017. Shane’s disappearance was met with rumors of set-ups, m
Re-Release - Shane Workman
Re-Release - Shane Workman Aug 14, 2026 2375 We originally covered the case of Shane Workman in November 2024. In August 2026, his body was found. We have published a short update episode right after this re-release.“Nobody is doing anything because Shane was a drug addict everybody goes back to that.” That was a comment that Mike Hewitt made on a Facebook post about his missing son, Shane Workman. Not only does Mike have to deal with the co
Leigh Occhi - Part 2
Leigh Occhi - Part 2 Aug 7, 2026 3844 CW: This episode contains discussions of child sexual assault. Please listen with care. If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual assault, help is available. RAINN's National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24 hours/day. Call 1-800-656-4673.13-year-old Leigh Occhi was left alone for an hour on the morning of August 27, 1992. In that short window of time, something violent happ
Leigh Occhi - Part 1
Leigh Occhi - Part 1 Jul 31, 2026 3018 On the morning of August 27, 1992, the remnants of Hurricane Andrew were heading toward Tupelo, Mississippi. Inside a small house on Honey Locust Drive, a thirteen-year-old girl named Leigh Occhi was home alone, still in her nightgown. She had an open house at her middle school later that day, and her mom had just left for work. Around 8:30, her mother was worried about the storm, so called home t
Anthonette Cayedito
Anthonette Cayedito Jul 24, 2026 3467 Sometime in the early morning hours of April 6, 1986, someone knocked on the door of a small home just off Route 66 in Gallup, New Mexico. A nine-year-old girl named Anthonette Cayedito got out of bed. By the time the sun rose, she was gone. There have been many versions of what happened between the knock and when Anthonette’s family realized she was missing, but what we do know is that there was
Susan Walsh
Susan Walsh Jul 17, 2026 3195 Around noon on July 16, 1996, a 36-year-old writer named Susan Walsh told her family that she was going to run out to the pay phone down the block and make a call. She left behind her purse. She left behind her beeper. She left behind her medication and even her cigarettes.No one ever saw her again. Susan wasn’t just anyone who vanished. She was a journalist who wrote about things like the Russian
Patty Otto
Patty Otto Jul 10, 2026 3875 On the night of August 31, 1976, a three-year-old girl crept out of bed and witnessed her father wrap his hands around her mother's throat, push her against the wall, and drag her out of sight. The next morning, her father, Ralph Otto, told her and her sister that their mother, 24-year-old Patty Otto, wasn’t coming back.For years, Suzanne wasn’t sure what she had seen that night, but as she be
Re-Release: Bianca Piper
Re-Release: Bianca Piper Jul 3, 2026 2662 This episode originally aired in 2024When 13-year-old Bianca Piper got into an argument with her mother, Shannon Tanner, over doing the dishes, Shannon put her in the car, drove her a mile up the road, and told her to walk home. While this may seem like an odd form of punishment, it was actually something that had been recommended by Bianca’s therapist. But on March 10, 2005, Bianca never made it
Michael Negrete
Michael Negrete Jun 26, 2026 3173 In the early morning hours of December 10, 1999, an 18-year-old UCLA freshman finished playing a computer game in his dorm room, stepped into the hallway to high-five the friend he'd been playing against, and walked back toward his own room. When his roommate woke up the next morning, Michael Negrete was gone.Bloodhounds traced his scent to a bus stop a few blocks away, but then the trail just
Mikelle Biggs
Mikelle Biggs Jun 19, 2026 2837 On the evening of January 2, 1999, two sisters stood on their street in Mesa, Arizona, waiting for the ice cream truck. The older girl, who was 11, had two quarters clutched in her hand. Her little sister, who was 9, got cold and ran inside — just for a minute. When she came back out, the bike her sister had been sitting on was lying in the road, one wheel still slowly spinning. The two quarters w
Karlie Gusé
Karlie Gusé Jun 12, 2026 3617 Sometime in the pre-dawn hours of October 13, 2018, a 16-year-old girl walked out of her family's home in Chalfont, California and into the dark. It was a cold morning, but she wasn't wearing a jacket. She didn’t take her glasses, and she left her phone and money behind. She left everything.The last person to see her inside the house was her stepmother, who says she watched Karlie Gusé lyi

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