216 - The Disappearance of Barbara Holik
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Barbara Holik fell in love with the American west. Drawn to New Mexico, she emigrated to the states in late 1989 and ultimately settled in Taos. There she established herself as an artist, selling hand crafter jewelry and finely painted pottery. She made friends, delved deep into the history of the region and often led tours through the towns and surrounding wildernes. She was a popular woman who engraciated herself to the local community up until the day she vanished.
When Barbara failed to show up for work two days in a row, her boss reported her missing. Investigators from the Taos Police Department found an absence of evidence at her apartment; nothing to suggest a crime had been commited but for the woman's absence. Unfortunately for them this lack of evidence would become the default state of the case.
What happened to Barbara Holik? Was she the victim of a random crime, or perhaps a targeted one? Did she leave of her own volition, or was she forcibly abducted? Nearly thirty years later and the answers to those questions remain undiscovered.
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| 0:08.0 | Barbara Holick fell in love with the American West. |
| 0:09.0 | Born and raised in Germany, the young woman had a keen interest in fascination with the |
| 0:12.7 | natural beauty of the landscape and the artistic community of Taus in particular. |
| 0:17.2 | At the age of 28, she left Germany for the last time and settled into Taus, where for |
| 0:22.8 | the next few years she built friendships and sold jewelry and pottery she crafted |
| 0:27.6 | and painted herself. |
| 0:31.8 | Then, in the summer of 1995, she mysteriously vanished. |
| 0:33.7 | While investigators couldn't find evidence of a crime, they could also find no indications |
| 0:38.7 | that Barbara was planning to go anywhere. |
| 0:43.3 | Soon detectives would find themselves crashing into dead end after dead end in their pursuit |
| 0:46.3 | of the missing woman. |
| 0:51.0 | The case would grow cold quickly, leaving investigators, friends and family frustrated |
| 0:52.7 | and without answers. |
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