229 - The Vanishing of Colleen Perris

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eighteen year old Colleen Perris had the world at her fingertips and couldn't wait to chase down her dreams whether they led to Hollywood or American Idol, she was game. Then, on a lazy Saturday afternoon her cell phone rang and she quickly left the house. She has never been seen again.

Six days later her car was found in a strip mall parking lot, resting in a space beside an abandoned fast food restaurant. Her purse was inside, though her wallet and phone were missing and bad weather had completely erased any forensic evidence from the exterior. It was another bright avenue that terminated in a dead end.

For more than twenty years Colleen's parents have fought to discover the truth of her fate. Friends, family and the community as a whole came together to pass out fliers, raise rewards and bring awareness to he vibrant and loving young woman's terrible disappearance. Police were left with the belief that Colleen had been a victim of foul play.

The only question was: had it been a random encounter or a planned crime carried out and executed by someone she trusted, maybe even a family member. One thing is for certain, whoever called Colleen's phone that Saturday afternoon might hold the answers to this mystery.

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0:00.0	Following a mysterious phone call, 18-year-old Colleen Perish drove away from her family's
0:14.9	Broward County home and never returned. Six days later, her missing vehicle was found
0:21.4	in a strip mall parking lot beside an abandoned fast-food restaurant. There was no evidence,
0:27.3	no forensics, nothing to assist in determining where Colleen may have gone, nor what had happened.
0:34.0	For nearly 23 years, investigators and Colleen's family have fought to try and figure out who
0:40.3	would have a reason to want to harm the vibrant and compassionate young woman. Despite exhaustive
0:46.9	searches and an investigation involving the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI,
0:52.9	Colleen's assailant has never been identified. Was Colleen drawn into a complex situation from
0:59.8	what she could not escape, was she the victim of a random crime, or might she have been targeted
1:06.1	by someone she thought she could trust, perhaps even a member of her own family?
1:12.7	This is Trace Evidence Episode 229, the vanishing of Colleen Perish.
1:27.3	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Steven Pecheco. Today we travel to Southern Florida to
1:34.4	examine a mysterious disappearance that is endured for more than two decades. 18-year-old Colleen
1:40.7	Perish was a bright, vibrant and loving young woman with her whole life in front of her
1:45.8	until one autumn afternoon when she mysteriously vanished. This is Episode 229, the vanishing of Colleen
1:55.0	Perish.
2:04.2	As the morning sun peeked out from beneath the seemingly endless darkness of the Atlantic Ocean,
2:10.2	its ardent glow appeared as little more than a dim blue flicker dancing somewhere, out beyond
2:16.2	where the blackness of the waves met the vast expanse of the sky. Quickly, vibrant streaks of orange
2:23.6	swept out from the east, brilliant embers simmering beneath the rim of graying clouds as they expanded
2:29.9	like a sticky fog, swallowing more of the blue sky with each passing minute. Even before the sun
2:37.0	could ascend to its seat high above the ocean, its heat could already be felt radiating and wet
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