Braonain McGinnis
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The 2023 holiday season was already in full swing, with many of us busy wrapping gifts and preparing for festive gatherings, when 24-year-old Braonain McGinnis quietly vanished from his home in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Braonain and his mother, Patricia, worked opposite shifts, so it wasn't unusual for them to miss each other except for brief moments when coming or going. Therefore, Patricia did not immediately notice that her son was missing. Initially, she thought Braonain was at work and, later on, that he was simply asleep in his room.
However, when Patricia realized Braonain had disappeared, she reported him missing to the Anne Arundel County Police Department, who began investigating his whereabouts on December 21, 2023. Christmas passed with no word from Braonain, and then New Year's came, deepening their concerns. A couple of weeks after Braonain was last seen, his family was shocked to learn that his vehicle had been found abandoned over 2,000 miles away in the mountains of Arizona. Extensive searches ensued, but no trace of Braonain McGinnis was ever found. It has been nearly a year since Braonain vanished, and his loved ones have worked tirelessly to try to piece together the clues that he left behind.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Braonain McGinnis, please call the Coconino County Sheriff's Office at 928-774-4523 or 1-800-338-7888 or Silent Witness at 928-774-6111. You may also contact the Anne Arundel County Police Department at (410) 222-8050.
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| 0:00.0 | When I saw he wasn't there, that's when I started to investigate to just confirm where is he, what's going on. |
| 0:19.0 | Are you okay? But there's no response from my text to him. And then I consulted with his sister and his stepfather. Have any of you seen him? Talk to him today. They said no. No one had seen him all day. That's when everything at high alert, I started calling around. |
| 0:40.7 | Is he with you? |
| 0:42.0 | Have you talked to him? |
| 0:43.2 | No. |
| 0:44.1 | And then that's when the panic started to set in. |
| 0:47.0 | And I instantly knew, this is not right. |
| 0:49.6 | He's gone. |
| 0:50.6 | I immediately contacted Anandarundle County police to report him missing. |
| 0:57.1 | All these cases are like a big puzzle and we're looking for a few key pieces to try to figure |
| 1:01.7 | out where to go next. If you think somebody's traveling cross-country, you might find they had |
| 1:05.9 | some luggage, clothes and other things that they were traveling with. There was a pair of jeans |
| 1:10.4 | in the car, an empty box of guerrilla bars, |
| 1:13.6 | visit them out of the Grand Canyon. |
| 1:14.6 | Those are things that are definitely odd about this case. |
| 1:17.6 | I mean, it is a mystery to us. Why there? How did he get there? |
| 1:21.6 | Is that the actual place that he drove the vehicle or somebody else took the vehicle there? |
| 1:25.6 | We just can't place him 100% at that location. |
| 1:29.9 | The 2023 holiday season was already in full swing. Many of us were busy wrapping gifts and preparing |
| 1:36.0 | for festive gatherings when 24-year-old Brennan McGuinness quietly vanished from his home in |
| 1:41.4 | Glen Burnie, Maryland. Brennan and his mother Patricia worked opposite shifts, |
| 1:46.0 | and it wasn't unusual for them to miss each other except for brief moments when coming and going. |
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