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We first brought you Zachary's story in July of 2019.

To refresh your memory, we will play the original episode first.

If you remember Zachary's story well, you can fast forward to around the 40-minute mark where the update begins.

It's very difficult for the family and everybody. Of course, his mother is very concerned. His brothers are very concerned, you know.

And all of his friends around him, he's got such a wide network of people who, you know, who have expressed, if they could do anything to help us.

And everybody is just, the support has been overwhelming. The more media attention that we have, bringing into this particular case and scenario, might raise more awareness.

He's close to his friends. The people that he's known as life, he's known all his life. It'd be hard for him to just abandon that.

He would keep contact with somebody. Either one of his friends, someone in his family, somebody, but just to vanish, you know, a person, I feel, would have to be under a lot of dress.

And very unhappy in the circumstances they were in to just walk away and just vanish like that.

I have to be very, very candid with you. The fact that he's an adult, an adult male with no ties to the community is how they phrase it.

It's gotten zero to no effort. Everything that's happened, we've done. Which I understand, but it's frustrating this can be.

You know, this was his address for his whole life, 28 years. You probably have heard more, you know, from experience, but to be able to not have anything that you can do.

Anything, you know, if you did want to go off the map and have nothing show up at the house, no, no male, no trace, it seems odd to me.

Like, you think you'd have to get some kind of healthcare. You would've got a job and got some kind of, just some kind of letter or some kind of reference to him, still being.

But it's pretty much just been letters of where are you?

On May 24, 2017, 27-year-old Zachary Wilkes left his home in Lampoke, California to make the familiar drive to his uncle's residence in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He planned to spend some time helping his aunt and uncle prepare the family's vacation home for summer guests and also to enjoy seeing his relatives.

However, Zachary never made it there, and neither he nor his car have ever been seen again.

What happened to Zachary on that 400-mile journey he made so many times before and was looking forward to doing again?

Amarissa and from Wondery, this is episode 182 of the vanished Zachary Wilkes story.

27-year-old Zachary Wilkes was finding his path in life, while living in his family's home with his brother, going to school and spending his time with friends and helping out neighbors.

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