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Dowell Phillips: Into The Known

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Dowell Phillips was a 57 year old from Helenwood, TN. He was a pastor and enjoyed going for walks near his house. On December 5, 2012, he was at home when his wife and her mother went to run some errands. 90 minutes later, his wife came home but Dowell was gone. He was never seen again. Websleuths: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?194170-TN-Dowell-Phillips-57-Helenwood-5-Dec-2012 Article on Dowell's disappearance: http://ihoneida.com/2013/01/16/search-continues-for-missing-preacher/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Dowell Phillips, please contact the Scott County Sheriff’s Department at (423) 663-3111. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, TuneInRadio, Podbean, and Overcast. Unfound is also now on Spotify. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. --And now, if you click on the Merchandise button, it will show the links to both the books on Amazon and the playing cards at makeplayingcards.com. Please check those out. Patreon—you can start contributing to Unfound for as low as $2/month. --Unfound also has a PayPal account. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, and other websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dow Phillips was a 57 year old from Helen Wood, Tennessee. He was a pastor and enjoyed going for walks near his house.

0:07.0

On December 5, 2012, he was at home when his wife and her mother went to run some errands.

0:13.7

90 minutes later, his wife came home, but Dow was gone.

0:18.3

He was never seen again.

0:21.7

I'm Ed Denzel and this is

0:25.0

unfound. I'm going to So, If you did any pre-study for this episode and I know how much you

1:07.4

listeners love to do that and I certainly support you taking an interest in a

1:11.6

case before Unfound covers it you discover support you discovered that this case that this case isn't on the Charlie Project. It's not in the Namas

1:19.5

database. There aren't many news articles and there were only two pictures of Dow that I could find

1:26.6

In fact this has to be one of the least known disappearances

1:29.7

Unfound has ever covered and you know how much I enjoy bringing these kinds of cases to you, because

1:36.3

these victims need to be featured as much as all the others. Because Dahl Phillips was a good

1:41.4

guy, living his life the right way, caring for those people around

1:46.2

him, and doing so while fighting through problems of his own. And that's what's most important.

1:56.0

But from a quote-unquote compelling case point of view, this disappearance has those elements as well.

1:59.0

A shady uncle, mysterious text messages,

2:02.0

an unreliable witness, and an unidentified van.

2:07.0

Everything that I hope moves this case from the unknown

2:10.0

and into the known.

2:14.0

And now Summer of the case.

2:16.2

Dow lived with his wife Missy and their daughter in Helen Wood, Tennessee.

2:20.3

He was the pastor of a small local church, but had passed many of the duties on to the assistant

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