Elisa Roberson Part 1: Goodnight Avenue
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
It was a hot August evening in 1989 when 13-year-old Elisa Roberson left her Aransas Pass, Texas, home to walk a short distance to meet a friend. The girls planned to meet halfway near an elementary school. The phone rang shortly after, and Elisa's younger sister, Ruby, answered. On the other line was the friend that Elisa had left to meet. She told Ruby that Elisa never showed up. Elisa's mother, Marina, was nearby and overheard the conversation. Marina began to worry, Elisa was her oldest child, and she was always dependable. If she wasn't with her friend, then where had she gone?
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to the vanished ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts. Before we get started, just a brief disclaimer. |
| 0:19.7 | This episode contains discussion of several distressing themes. |
| 0:23.8 | Please take care while listening. |
| 0:30.1 | It changed, |
| 0:31.4 | to Randis this past permanently. |
| 0:33.2 | I mean, people didn't continue the war with a little bubble they had lived in up until then. |
| 0:39.2 | Something like that happening, it just tells everyone that nobody is safe. It can happen anywhere at |
| 0:46.7 | any time and there are a lot of life lessons that came out of it a little too late. |
| 0:51.8 | In this case above and beyond any other case I've ever worked in my life, is that case that I will never rest until I know the answer. I will probably die, still wanting to know the answer. |
| 1:07.0 | And we can almost touch it, and almost feel it and grab it and pull it in. But we've got to be able to do a whole |
| 1:16.2 | lot more than that. We've got to be able to convince 12 grand jurors that we believe this happened and then 12 jurors in a courtroom. |
| 1:28.0 | It was a hot August evening in 1989 when 13-old Elisa Roberson left her Erranzas past Texas home, |
| 1:36.8 | to walk a short distance to meet a friend. |
| 1:39.4 | The girls had planned to meet halfway near an elementary school. It wasn't long after Elisa had left that the phone rang and |
| 1:46.4 | Elisa's younger sister Ruby answered. On the other line was a friend that Elisa had left to meet up with. |
| 1:51.6 | She told Ruby that Elisa never showed up. |
| 1:54.0 | Elisa's mother Marina was nearby and overheard the conversation. |
| 1:58.0 | Marina began to worry. |
| 2:00.0 | Elisa was her oldest child, and she was always dependable. |
| 2:03.6 | If Elisa wasn't with her friend, where had she gone? |
| 2:06.8 | I'm Marissa and from Wundery, this is episode 437 of the Vanished. |
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