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306: Late Night Car Wreck, A Sketchy Taxi Driver & An Unsolved Murder: The Adrienne Salinas Case

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the suspicious death of Adrienne Celeste Salinas.
Anyone with information regarding this case should call 1-800-CALL-FBI or the Tempe, Arizona, Police Department at (480) 350-8311
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/adrienne-celeste-salinas

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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Who was Adrienne Salinas 2:19
Contracting Valley Fever 6:40
The House Party that changed everything 8:24
Adrienne's car accident 19:13
The last sighting of Adrienne Salinas 23:26
Thomas Simon Jr. Person of interest 28:29
The bizarre history of the Simons/Avilas 30:14
Thomas Simon Jr. is interrogated 33:03
Self investigation or coverup? 43:40
Flash Flood unearths clues 49:12
Who is Bryan Patrick Miller? 54:29
Was Adrienne a victim of Bryan's? 1:05:00
The baffling conclusion of Bryan's case 1:12:48
A conversation about good cops/detectives 1:16:37
The case reopened 1:20:43
Final Thoughts and Outro 1:23:01

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https://medium.com/@natasha.leigh/the-unsolved-disappearance-of-brian-shaffer-fbcdb92a1338
Brian Shaffer Is Missing and Someone Is Hiding The Truth
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Learn how at equinix.com, forward slash solutions. Hey what's up everybody. And welcome back to Milehire Podcast episode 306. I'm your

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host Kendall. I'm your host Josh. We are joined by our amazing production team.

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0:46.3

Yeah, I like that.

0:47.3

Heward makes a dream work.

0:48.7

That's right, Janelle and Ian in the house.

0:51.3

Well, welcome back guys. All right, so today we are diving into the very

0:57.6

upsetting and frustrating case, the disappearance and death of Adrian Salinas.

1:04.0

Yeah, this one, I mean, it is a, for warning, it's a tough one.

1:10.0

It's heartbreaking.

1:11.0

You know, a lot of horrific things happen in this one and it's also frustrating because it feels like

1:16.1

The police could have done more and should be doing more as of today because there really hasn't been a whole lot of movement in this case unfortunately

1:27.2

which is one of the reasons why we want to cover it is because it I feel like you know this one I think this case is very solvable and I mean

1:35.0

sounds like there's some more evidence that the police have that they haven't

1:39.3

really released to the public's and maybe some more information there, but I think the very difficult thing with this case is there's a lack of evidence

1:46.8

because of the condition in which Adrian's remains were found in and also there's so many different possible suspects

1:54.6

which makes it difficult to kind of narrow down and the circumstances of her

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