Bethany Collins Buckles Part 1: Thanksgiving

The Vanished Podcast

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In the week leading up to Thanksgiving 2021, Bethany Collins Buckles was making holiday plans with her mother, Jolinda. Bethany was at her condo in Asheville, North Carolina, while Jolinda was at her home in Atlanta, Georgia. Jolinda planned to drive to Asheville for the holiday, and they were creating a shopping list to send to the grocery store for pick-up. This way, they would have everything they needed to prepare Thanksgiving dinner once Jolinda arrived in town.

Before ending their call, they agreed to finalize their plans the next day. However, Jolinda never heard from Bethany again. Concerned and unable to drive to Bethany's condo from Atlanta, she contacted the Asheville Police Department to request a welfare check. An officer reported back that no one was home and that Bethany's car was not parked outside.

When Jolinda eventually arrived in Asheville, she went to Bethany's condo and discovered that her little dog had been left locked inside for days without food or water, which was very unlike Bethany. This prompted Jolinda to report her daughter as missing. As the investigation into Bethany's disappearance began, the authorities uncovered several strange clues. Years later, those clues have still not led to any breakthroughs in finding Bethany.

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0:00.0	Bethany was a emotional sensitive, caring person.
0:14.9	The thing that's so tragic about this is that Bethany did not start out life as someone destined for an end like this.
0:24.7	He had tremendous promise. She was doing so well and so smart and such a sweet person.
0:32.9	Her life didn't have to go this way. That's the tragedy to me. And in my mind's eye, I see this young,
0:40.3	kind, sweet, smart person who, you know, the world was her oyster, and then she lost her father.
0:48.0	I mean, it's where all this stems from. And what a tragedy. I literally saw this coming for her
0:53.5	like a freight train.
0:55.2	She's from Atlanta, and then that's where her mom lived.
1:00.1	Her mom moved here when Bethany disappeared.
1:03.5	She just moved up here to try to find her.
1:06.0	She's a very smart woman and very persistent.
1:08.5	We're just trying to find closure for her mother, and she knows that the outcome is likely
1:13.9	not going to be good, but she still wants answers, is to know what happened with her daughter.
1:20.6	In the week leading up to Thanksgiving 2021, Bethany Collins-Buckles was making holiday
1:26.3	plans with her mother, Jo Linda.
1:28.3	Bethany was at her condo in Asheville, North Carolina, while Jo Linda was at her home in Atlanta, Georgia.
1:34.3	Jo Linda planned to drive up to Asheville for the holiday, and they were making a shopping list to send over to the grocery store for pickup.
1:41.3	That way, they would have everything they needed to cook Thanksgiving
1:44.6	dinner once Jolinda arrived in town. Before they got off the phone, they decided to finalize their
1:50.8	plans the next day. In the days that followed, there was no word from Bethany. With Jolinda being so
1:56.6	far away in Atlanta, she was unable to drive over to Bethany's condo and check on her daughter
2:01.6	herself, so she contacted the Asheville Police Department to conduct a welfare check. An officer
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