226 - The Vanishing of Charles David Hope
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
On a humid, Florida night in March of 1982, forty-one year old Charles David Hope walked out of a popular seafood restaurant and mysteriously vanished. His truck was later found parked at his real estate business with the doors locked and windows rolled up. Inside police found several personal affects but no signs of a crime.
At the time it was theorized that Charles might have fled the state, perhaps to take on a new adventure, or maybe, in fear for his life. However, as decades have rolled on, other more sinister theories have risen to the surface.
Might Charles have killed by drug traffickers? Could he have been hunted down by an angry husband who didn't appreciate the way the notorious flirt talked to his wife? Or, is it possible, that Charles was himself involved in illegal acts that eventually led to his disappearance?
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| 0:39.0 | Charles Hope was a lifelong resident of Hernando County, Florida |
| 0:43.0 | where his family could track their roots back for generations. |
| 0:46.0 | Popular, intelligent, and friendly, you'd have to cast a wide net |
| 0:50.0 | to find someone who didn't know good old Charlie |
| 0:53.0 | and an even wider one for someone who didn't like him. |
| 0:56.0 | Perhaps that's why it came as such a surprise |
| 0:59.0 | when the gregarious, fun-loving man about town |
| 1:02.0 | seemingly vanished into thin air. |
| 1:04.0 | It was late on the night of March 31st, 1982, |
| 1:08.0 | when Charlie strode into the redfish restaurant in Rogers Park |
| 1:12.0 | to share a drink with his uncle. |
| 1:14.0 | Hours later, Charlie drove away in his truck |
| 1:17.0 | and has never been seen again. |
| 1:19.0 | His vehicle was found abandoned outside of his real estate office |
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