Missing Persons Podcast

About the hosts:

Missing Persons is co-hosted by Mike Morford and Jess Bettencourt

About the show:

At any given time, there are 90,000 missing persons, and that's just in the U.S. This podcast explores some of these cases including interviews with a family member of the missing person, an advocate for the case, or an investigator trying to find them.

New episodes publish every other Saturday.

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Latest Episodes

Michael Morford Michael Morford

Episode 122 Tanner Sharp

On April 4, 2010, twenty four year old Tanner Sharp left his sister Sommer's home in Elk Grove, CA where he had been staying and drove off in his Maroon 1994 Saturn. His family never saw him again. Tanner had told family he was heading back to Kansas where he was originally from, and that a friend had lined up a job for him. Tanner soon texted Sommer saying he had made it to Kansas, but despite his text, it soon became apparent that he may have never left California. Tanner's family reported him missing, and it didn't take long for clues indicated that Tanner may have been in the remote farming town of Galt, CA about 15 miles from Elk Grove. On December 30th, 2010, eight months after he vanished, Tanner's car was found in a water filled ravine close to Galt. There was no sign of Tanner, or his belongings, and he remains missing to this day. Tanner's sister Sommer discusses Tanner's frustrating disappearance in this episode.

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Michael Morford Michael Morford

Episode 115 Jason Landry

On December 12, 2020, Twenty one year old college student Jason Landry embarked on a 165 mile road trip  from San Marcos, Texas to see his family for the holidays in Missouri City, Texas. He would never make it home. His crashed car was discovered just after midnight in Luling, Texas; an oil and ranching community that Jason was not familiar with. There was no sign of Jason. The accident seemed to be a single car accident that left Jason's car backed into a ditch. Several items of Jason's were discarded, including what appeared to be the clothes he was wearing. Even his pet fish who Jason had taken care to put into a water and take with him, was left behind on the cold night. Jason's father Kent arrived on the scene to try and figure out what had happened to his son, and he was disappointed and upset to find that no real search or investigation of what happened to Jason was happening. Soon, extensive searches would be launched, but no sign of Jason was ever found, and five years later, Jason's family is praying for answers. In this episode, Kent Landry discusses his son's puzzling case, and the massive effort that he and many other have put forward to try and find Jason.

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Michael Morford Michael Morford

Episode 104 Lawrence ‘Larry’ Riegel

On Christmas, 2009, 57 year old Lawrence 'Larry' Riegel of Yakima, Washington talked to his family on the phone for the last time. He was in a good mood despite a recent surgery and some medical issues, and reached out to several friends and family members that day. According to people that spoke with Larry, he was making dinner for his live in girlfriend, Ladena Mann, and waiting for her to come home. The next day when Larry failed to show up for a family gathering, his family began to worry about him. Several calls to Larry went unanswered. When Larry's sister Susan, who is our guest in this episode, drove to his home, she found Ladena there, bur no sign of Larry. Ladena told Susan that Larry had gone to see friends on the coast because he was 'feeling Blue' , but his car was still there, and the story did not sit right with Susan. 

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