Christopher Dietterick

The Vanished Podcast

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🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

In late May 2019, 41-year-old Christopher Dietterick quietly disappeared from Elkton, Maryland. About a week later, his ex-wife received a phone call from the University of Maryland Cancer Center in Baltimore; Chris hadn’t made it to his appointment for his cancer treatment on June 5. That’s when she contacted his sister, and they began to compare notes and try to find anyone who had seen or spoken to Chris. But there was no sign of Chris, so his sister, Sara, reported him missing. During the course of the investigation, they uncovered video surveillance footage of Chris at the Cecil County Health Department in Elkton around 11 AM on May 30, but that’s where his trail goes cold. Chris’ last outgoing call was that same evening at 5:05 PM, and his phone pinged in the town of Elkton. Five years later, Chris’ case remains a mystery.

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0:00.0	Sarah has really been a driving force in all of this and without what she's been doing
0:16.7	I don't think we would have the exposure and whenever we hear they found a missing body
0:21.3	we are like do we want it to be Christopher or not?
0:25.0	It's kind of a scary thing
0:27.1	because we want to know what happened to him,
0:28.9	but then again, this one time she told me
0:30.9	someone said that he had been buried out somewhere.
0:35.6	And I had the worst dreams for a month,
0:38.5	just imagining him being thrown in a hole while he was still alive and cut over with dirt and it was one of those things was like it's really hard when you're the mother.
0:50.0	In late May of 2019, 41-year-old Christopher Dietrich quietly disappeared from Elkton, Maryland.
0:57.0	About a week later, his ex-wife received a phone call from the University of Maryland Cancer Center in Baltimore.
1:03.2	Chris hadn't made it to his appointment on June 5th. That's when she got in
1:07.6	contact with Chris's sister and they began to compare notes and try to find
1:11.6	anyone who had seen or spoken to Chris over the past week.
1:15.5	But there was no sign of Chris, so his sister Sarah reported him missing.
1:19.8	During the course of the investigation, they uncovered video surveillance footage of Chris at the Cecil County Health Department in Elkden, around 11 a.m. on May 30th.
1:29.4	But that's where his trail goes cold.
1:31.8	Chris's last outgoing call was made the same evening at 5.05 p.m.
1:36.6	and his phone continued using data until 6.55 p.m. on May 31st and showed that his phone pinged inside the town of Elkton.
1:44.8	Five years later, Chris's case remains a mystery.
1:47.8	I'm Marissa and from Wundery, this is episode 446 of the Vanished, Christopher Dietrich's story. Would you believe it?
2:07.0	something from the bank you can actually look forward to reading.
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