Ebonee Spears
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On January 14, 2016, Ebonee Spears’ parents were desperately trying to get their thirty-year-old daughter some help. Ebonee hadn’t been acting like herself, possibly displaying signs of a mental health or medical crisis, and her family wanted to her to check in for an evaluation. As Ebonee’s family raced to help their daughter between the afternoon of January 14th and throughout the next day, strange things began to happen, and Ebonee Spears has not been seen since late in the evening of January 15, 2016. This week, we’re exploring the odd and extraordinary events leading up to Ebonee’s disappearance more than three years ago and looking into some of the more mysterious aspects of her case.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:18.8 | When she first met missing, we got people calling. They always thought we saw her here. We thought we saw her there, but no |
| 0:24.8 | nothing. It's just like she's just completely vanished from room with them. |
| 0:32.4 | Even though Emily was a young adult, I would tell her, any parent, just because they're in the |
| 0:38.7 | adults and they feel like they, you know, grown, know everything, you still need to keep it with your child. |
| 0:48.2 | Know their friends, know where they're going, know where they're hanging out, know what they're doing. |
| 0:53.5 | And a lot of times when they reach, you know, they always just hurt me. Parents don't need to know this. |
| 0:59.7 | But even if you're not a teenager, even if you're not a youth, know your child, get to really know |
| 1:06.1 | your children and communicate. Keep them in line of communication open at all times. |
| 1:12.0 | So you never know what's going to happen. And that's what I've learned. Even though we talk, I still |
| 1:17.2 | let know all of her friends. I still, it's some stuff, you know, about her. I still let know. |
| 1:22.8 | And we talk and she, she tell me what she wants to tell me. And you know, she go out, she go out, |
| 1:29.3 | you do what she do, but this keeps you from communication open at this weekend. |
| 1:34.4 | Because you never know nobody's not going to do anything. Okay, I don't know what my daughter had on tonight. |
| 1:38.8 | I don't know what she meant who she was with, you know. |
| 1:41.8 | How can you cope with somebody just from that loan? You don't, you don't know nothing. |
| 1:48.5 | And I don't know I can, I don't know if I can do that. Even she is being contained somewhere |
| 1:54.6 | or she's not alive. But I know of me. She'd have been trying to make it home. I know that. |
| 2:03.1 | On January 14, 2016, Ebony Spears' parents were desperately trying to get their 30-year-old |
| 2:09.8 | daughter some help. Ebony hadn't been acting like herself, possibly displaying signs of |
| 2:15.7 | a mental health or medical crisis. And her family wanted to check her in for an evaluation. |
| 2:22.3 | As Ebony's family raced to help their daughter between the afternoon of January 14, |
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