Cynthia Robison

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

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🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In September 2007, 38-year-old Cynthia Robison left Stockton, California, in the company of a truck driver. The two traveled to Florida, and it’s documented that they were there in early to mid-October. On October 15, Cynthia called her mother, Carolyn, from Connecticut, sounding frantic. She claimed to have witnessed the truck driver shoot someone. Before Carolyn could fully understand what was happening, Cynthia abruptly hung up. Carolyn never heard from her daughter again.

Cynthia’s family was left in a state of confusion and desperation. They didn’t know where she was exactly or where she might be headed. When they reported her missing, they faced significant roadblocks due to jurisdictional issues. Cynthia had lived in California; her disappearance likely occurred thousands of miles away on the opposite coast. The Stockton Police Department in California opened a missing persons case, but jurisdictional challenges have severely limited their ability to conduct a thorough investigation. Nearly eighteen years later, the search for Cynthia continues, with her family and law enforcement still hoping for answers that might finally lead to Cynthia.

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0:00.0	I fought for as long as I could, as hard as I could.
0:14.0	Every time I would talk to somebody, I wrote it down.
0:17.0	I was just driving myself nuts and not getting anywhere.
0:20.0	I told police, I said, if you don't want to pursue this for my daughter's sake,
0:24.9	pursue it for the sake of the other young women that he might be targeting next.
0:29.8	It makes the people who are not the creme de la creme of society throwaways.
0:36.0	And everybody is somebody's child. They aren't throwaways to
0:39.8	everybody. It's actually telling the serial killers who they should go after. In September 2007,
0:47.1	38-year-old Cynthia Robeson left Stockton, California in the company of a truck driver. The two
0:52.6	traveled to Florida, and it's documented that they
0:55.2	were there in early to mid-October. On October 15th, Cynthia called her mother Carolyn from Connecticut.
1:01.9	She sounded frantic. She claimed to have witnessed the truck driver shoot someone. Before
1:06.8	Carolyn could fully understand what was happening, Cynthia abruptly hung up and was never
1:11.5	heard from again. Cynthia's family was left in a state of confusion and desperation. They didn't
1:17.1	know exactly where she was, nor where the two may be headed. When they attempted to report her
1:22.1	missing, they encountered significant roadblocks due to jurisdictional issues. Cynthia had lived in California,
1:28.3	but her disappearance took place thousands of miles away on the opposite coast. Though the Stockton
1:33.8	Police Department in California did open a missing persons case, jurisdictional challenges have
1:39.0	severely limited their ability to conduct a thorough investigation. Nearly 18 years later, the search for Cynthia continues, with her family still hoping to find
1:48.3	the puzzle pieces that may lead them to figuring out what happened to Cynthia.
1:52.4	I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 482 of The Vanished, Cynthia Robeson's story.
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