Elisa Roberson Part 2: Flipping the Narrative
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
On a Sunday evening in August 1989, 13-year-old Elisa Roberson left her home in Aransas Pass, Texas, to meet a friend at a local elementary school just a short walk away. Witnesses saw her along the way, and someone even reported seeing her enter a red or maroon car. But Elisa never made it to meet her friend. Her family later suspected that she might have been abducted by her mother's ex-boyfriend, Ralph, who had been abusive and threatened Elisa's mother when they ended their relationship. However, the police had their eyes on someone else, the father of the girl Elisa was walking to meet, who had a history of disturbing allegations made against him and a strange alibi. The investigation failed to uncover concrete evidence, and Elisa's case went cold. Years later, the case heated up again, and took a strange turn.
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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. We know that there's some people in the wrong suspects that know what happened to a Lisa. |
| 0:25.6 | I always pray and hope that whoever knows do the right thing and make that |
| 0:32.0 | hard that will end this and put this thing to rest and |
| 0:36.6 | maybe we'll be able to bring a list at home you never know or we will have closure. |
| 0:43.0 | The police department, they're their own entity. |
| 0:46.0 | They've made accusations against my family. |
| 0:49.0 | They've made accusations against my mom. |
| 0:52.0 | They've even told me to my face that I know what |
| 0:54.4 | happened and that my mom's responsible for what happened. They've said that my |
| 0:58.7 | younger brother Tony was responsible. They've named him as a person of intrude. |
| 1:03.4 | It was a Sunday evening in August of 1989. |
| 1:07.8 | That 13 year old Elisa Roberson walked out of her home in Ransis past Texas and headed out to meet a friend. |
| 1:14.4 | It was only a short walk. |
| 1:16.4 | The girls planned to meet at a local elementary school. |
| 1:19.2 | It should have taken Alyssa about six minutes. |
| 1:21.8 | Multiple witnesses saw her along that route. There was even a |
| 1:25.5 | report of someone seeing her get into a red or maroon car, but it wasn't long before |
| 1:30.1 | Elisa's friend was calling their home to say that she had never made it. |
| 1:33.6 | After the police began investigating the next morning, they searched for Elisa all around town. |
| 1:39.2 | The family believed that she may have been taken by her mom's ex-boyfriend, Ralph, who had been abusive and even threatened |
| 1:45.2 | Elisa's mother when their relationship ended. But the police had their eyes on someone else, |
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