Barbara Annette McClure

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

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

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

On November 2, 1978, 24-year-old Barbara McClure went out with friends and acquaintances. There was a dance competition that evening at the Fandango disco bar in Lake Forest Park, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. There was a disagreement that evening, and Barbara left on foot to walk home, which was about five miles away. A couple who had been with Barbara at the disco said they later went after her and offered her a ride, but she declined. Barbara never made it home that night and was never seen or heard from again. Days later, Barbara’s license turned up on the side of a roadway, but the stories of who exactly had found it have varied. At the time of her disappearance, Barbara was a single mother with a young daughter, Jamie. Decades later, Jamie decided it was time for her to fight to uncover the truth. Teaming up with her cousin, Karleen, Jamie delved into a perplexing trail of clues, exposing unsettling connections within their family circle and the closely-knit church community they belonged to.

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0:00.0	She was a free spirit, she had a baby girl, two years old, got divorced shortly after giving birth.
0:18.0	What I see of her life, I'm thinking she was kind of kicking ass in the 70s for a young woman living on her own
0:25.8	reestablishing herself getting a job that would allow her to support her
0:32.4	daughter I just felt like she had a good grasp on life.
0:37.0	There's so many weird things and you could make a book about it but the problem is there's no ending to
0:44.7	any of the pieces so every chapter would be open-ended why does nothing line up?
0:50.0	I suspected something because it never felt right but I just thought oh if I just
0:54.9	asked a couple questions or if you say things a certain way someone's going to answer.
1:00.1	I got cut off after a couple questions. My dad commented on that newspaper article
1:05.2	that she was leaving a fast flight and just completely unnecessary.
1:09.2	On November 2nd 1978, 24-year-old Barbara McClure went out with some friends and acquaintances.
1:17.0	There was a dance competition that evening at the Fandango Discobar in Lake Forest Park, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
1:24.0	According to those who were there, there was a disagreement,
1:27.0	and Barbara left on foot to walk home, about five miles away.
1:31.0	A couple who had been at the disco with Barbara that evening
1:34.0	said they later found her walking along the roadway and offered to give her a ride
1:38.2	home but she declined. Barbara never made it home that night and she was never seen or heard from again.
1:45.0	Days later, Barbara's license turned up on the side of the road,
1:48.0	but the stories of who exactly found it have varied.
1:52.0	At the time of her disappearance, Barbara was the single mother of a young daughter, Jamie. Decades later, Jamie decided to take up the search for her mom and what she began to uncover was unsettling and caused her to second-guess
2:04.4	everything she ever thought she'd known about her mom's disappearance.
2:08.0	I'm Marissa and from Wundery this is episode 443 of The Van vanished Barbara McClure's story. Wundra's new podcast Blame It on the Fame dives into one of pop music's greatest controversies.
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