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Episode 479; NEW EPISODE!!!!! Wendy Gessing: Something In The Way

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Wendy Gessing was a 50 year old from Crest Hill, IL. She was the mother of one and had a sister and two brothers. On June 12, 2021, Wendy left her job at a pizza place without any warning. Wendy was later recorded on video at a local motel. She was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendy.gessing.5 NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/82176?nav Map Analysis: https://youtu.be/5G1-knR7Rzo Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/2025/03/04/wendy-gessing/ Article: https://patch.com/illinois/joliet/wendy-gessing-dead-or-alive-crest-hill-joliet-mystery-3-years-old If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Wendy Gessing, please contact the Crest Hill Police Department at (815) 741-5115. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: [email protected] --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wendy Guessing was a 50-year-old from Crest Hill, Illinois. She was the mother of one and had a sister and two brothers.

0:11.3

On June 12, 2021, Wendy left her job at a pizza place without warning. Wendy was later recorded on video at a local motel.

0:24.1

She was never seen again.

0:30.0

I'm Ed Denzel, and this is unfound.

0:34.6

Music is unfound.

0:52.8

One of the types of disappearances I labeled a few years ago after looking at all of unfound's cases to that point, was the walk-off.

0:57.6

In actuality, this could also technically be called the runoff or drive-off or even the sale off,

1:05.4

depending on the circumstances. You know what I mean.

1:09.3

But these are situations where a person is left on his or her own and did not return.

1:15.8

Granted, in some of these incidents, there are reasons to believe the person had no intention of returning.

1:22.0

And those are fairly straightforward.

1:25.1

Yet, there is a category of the walk-off where we believe the missing

1:29.9

person planned on coming back, but didn't. Some examples from Unfound's history. Jamie Bowen,

1:39.0

Travis Murrow, Andrea Canable, and there are many more. Well, with Wendy guessing, we have a drive-off with a belief

1:50.1

that she planned to return. But what happened when she left alone? And now a summary of the case.

2:01.7

Wendy guessing was the second of four children, two boys and two girls.

2:07.1

She got along with all of them, but that was not a surprise given Wendy's great personality.

2:13.0

She graduated from high school, but while there she met the man she would marry.

2:19.1

They ended up having a son in 1996. Everything seemed fine. But then things changed. After taking a house cleaning job in the

2:28.7

early 2000s, Wendy began staying out all night and not coming home.

2:35.0

Eventually, this led to a divorce, and Wendy admitting she had a drug problem.

2:41.2

She struggled with this addiction right up until her disappearance,

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