211 - The Disappearance of Diana Braungardt
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Eighteen year old Diana Braungardt was smart, funny, caring and popular. She performed well in school, worked a part time job and had just enrolled in modeling classes as high school graduation approached. Then, she vanished.
After finishing a shift at a local discount department store, Diana clocked out and stepped out into the parking lot. She never made it home and her parents found her car, still sitting in the lot. It appeared to investigators that the high school senior had been abducted before she'd made it to her car.
Over the years, a lot of different possibilities have been suggested.
From a personal assault from someone who knew Diana to a slew of serial killers who have been name dropped but never connected to the case. This year will mark thirty-six years since Diana vanished, far too long to go without answers.
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| 0:39.2 | On a chilly evening in March of 1987, 18-year-old high school senior Diana |
| 0:44.7 | Bronngard was working a late shift at her part-time job in the local mall. |
| 0:49.4 | At precisely 10.02 pm, Diana clocked out and walked out of the store |
| 0:53.7 | heading for her car. She never made it home, and when her parents reported her missing, |
| 0:58.5 | detective discovered that she'd never made it to her car. |
| 1:02.4 | The investigation kicked off with haste, but detectives had little to work with. |
| 1:06.9 | There were no fingerprints, direct witnesses to the crime or any evidence to show |
| 1:11.2 | that a crime had even been committed. |
| 1:13.6 | Despite a witness who saw Diana speaking to an unidentified man and exhaustive searches, |
| 1:19.5 | no trace of the missing woman was ever found. |
| 1:22.0 | Over the years, investigators began wondering if Diana had been the victim of a serial predator. |
| 1:28.0 | Several different names have been considered over the years from Tommy Lynn's cells |
| 1:32.9 | to Larry DeWane Hall and many others in between. |
| 1:36.4 | More than 35 years later, the questions still remain. |
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