April Geyer and Roseanna Forcum

The Vanished Podcast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

The summer of 1998 was coming to a close when two young women disappeared from the St. Cloud area of Minnesota. April Geyer was 21 years old, and Roseanna Forcum was just 15. April and Rose had only recently become acquainted. Although they ran in the same social circle, it wasn’t immediately clear that the girls had vanished together. At that time, we were approaching the end of an era when most people didn’t own cell phones. You had to wait until you reached your destination or found a pay phone to call home and inform your parents about your plans and when you would return. As April and Rose’s families independently searched for them, they eventually realized they weren’t alone.

Two years later, an informant came forward with information indicating that April and Rose were together when they disappeared, even identifying a suspect believed to be their killer. Despite extensive searches, April and Rose were never found. Now, twenty-six years later, their families are determined to bring their stories back into the light, hoping to finally uncover the truth.

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0:00.0	It would be nice to have answers.
0:12.0	At this point, they've been living life for 26 years after having potentially murdered someone.
0:20.0	They've been living free this whole time.
0:22.8	We find them, I imagine we're going to know how they got there.
0:27.0	I know I've met with the police before, and they had three big three ring binders just full of case files.
0:36.4	They have been investigating. I imagine they have some idea, but sometimes
0:42.3	without evidence. This case has not at all gotten the attention it deserves. I'm really glad that
0:49.7	more recently more it was being brought to it, but I do feel a ball was dropped for two girls,
0:57.9	two people in general, to be able to disappear that long, and there's absolutely nothing.
1:03.2	They've quite literally vanished. That would be pretty difficult to pull off with them being as
1:08.7	young. And at this point, I think foul play is suspected.
1:13.6	It was a couple of years before there was really any tiny bit of lead as far as what could
1:19.8	have happened to the girls. Throughout the last 26 years, very, very little effort was really put
1:24.3	into trying to find them or trying to find out what happened.
1:31.5	I think more has been done in just the last year than to hold 26 years.
1:38.8	The summer of 1998 was coming to a close when two young women disappeared from the St. Cloud area of Minnesota. April Geyer was 21 years old at the time, and Rosanna Forkham was just 15.
1:45.7	The two young women had run in the same crowd and had known one another for only a period of months,
1:51.4	but it wasn't immediately apparent that the girls had disappeared together.
1:55.5	In 1998, we were nearing the very end of that era, when most people didn't yet have cell phones.
2:01.4	You had to wait until you got to your destination or found a pay phone to call home and let your parents know
2:06.0	what you were up to and when you would be home. As April and Rosano's families were independently
2:10.8	searching for them, they eventually came to realize that they weren't alone. Two years later,
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