Charissa "Hazel Grace" Caster Part 1: Chaos Puzzle
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In late July 2024, 32-year-old Charissa Caster vanished under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind a trail of unsettling clues. Her disappearance came to light when her belongings were found scattered along a roadway in Edmonds, Washington. Shortly after, her car was discovered abandoned near Sequim, WA, roughly 50 miles away. The last confirmed sighting of Charissa was captured on video, showing her picking flowers in the area, but after that, she seemingly disappeared without a trace.
As the reality of her disappearance set in, Charissa’s loved ones immediately launched a search around the location where her car was found, but they turned up empty-handed. In a desperate attempt to piece together what happened, they began retracing her steps in the days and weeks before her July 2024 disappearance. To share what little information they had, they created a group chat to exchange details from their personal interactions with Charissa. Slowly, a haunting picture of her life in the lead-up to her disappearance began to emerge.
But what do these fragmented pieces mean, and how might they help uncover what happened to Charissa?
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| 0:00.0 | Patients loved her. |
| 0:11.6 | And she worked in the youth facility. |
| 0:14.2 | She was all of their favorites. |
| 0:15.8 | And the adults loved her. |
| 0:17.8 | She was just extra caring and extra one. |
| 0:20.7 | She has so many coworkers from all the different |
| 0:22.7 | hospitals she worked at, worried about her and caring about her. She's not just someone that |
| 0:28.7 | should be ignored and nobody should. Everyone deserves to be cared about and searched for. |
| 0:36.3 | Her car was found in Squim, Washington. |
| 0:40.8 | Her belongings that were found that initially, |
| 0:44.1 | the missing person's report, was in Edmonds, |
| 0:47.2 | two totally different areas of Washington. |
| 0:49.7 | I mean, she does, like, camping. |
| 0:52.0 | She likes hiking, so it's not abnormal for her to go out to those areas. |
| 0:57.0 | I actually don't know if she had ever been to swim prior to all of this. |
| 1:02.0 | I do know that she loved Twilight and Forks Washington is pretty close to squim. |
| 1:08.0 | 32-year-old Carissa Castor was last seen in July 24, and her disappearance is shrouded in a chaotic |
| 1:15.6 | series of events. Law enforcement became involved when some of her belongings were discovered, scattered |
| 1:21.2 | along a roadway in Edmonds, Washington. Then, her car was later found abandoned, approximately 50 miles away near Squim, Washington. |
| 1:30.2 | It was later revealed that Carissa had been recorded on video, picking flowers in the area. |
| 1:35.4 | And that's the last confirmed sighting of Carissa Castor. |
| 1:38.9 | As her loved ones realized that Carissa was missing, they sprang into action, searching |
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