Evelyn Hartley: Shadow of Coincidence

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Evelyn Grace Hartley was a 15 year old from LaCrosse, Wisconsin. She was a popular girl who didn’t mind studying on a Friday night. On October 24, 1953, she was babysitting for the first time at the home of the Rasmussen’s. At 8:30pm, Evelyn’s father called to see how she was doing. There was no answer. Worried, he drove over to see Evelyn and found the house had been broken into. Evelyn was gone. She was never seen again. Anthony's website: http://crimeblogger1983.blogspot.com Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/evelyn-grace-hartley NAMUS: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/4579/2/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Evelyn Hartley, please contact the La Crosse Police Department at (608) 785-5962. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, TuneInRadio, Podbean, and Overcast. --And big announcement: Unfound is now on Spotify. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. Amazon.com—Volume 1 in both ebook and print form. $2.99 and $10.99 respectively. 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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0:00.0	Evelyn Grace Hartley was a 15-year-old from Lacrosse, Wisconsin.
0:03.7	She was a popular girl who didn't mind studying on a Friday night.
0:07.3	On October 24th, 1953, she was babysitting for the first time at the home of the Rasmussens.
0:13.4	At 830 Evelyn's father called to see how she was doing.
0:17.0	There was no answer.
0:18.7	Worried, he drove over to see Evelyn and found the house had been broken into.
0:24.0	Evelyn was gone.
0:25.9	She was never seen again.
0:30.0	I'm Ed Denzel, and this is unfound. I'm going to do. So, I was watching Captain America's Civil War for about the 20th time recently. There's the scene
1:14.7	where CAPS team is about to take on Iron Man's at Leipzig Holly Airport in
1:18.4	Germany. Tony Stark makes the joke, wow it's so weird how you run into people at the airport.
1:25.5	And it's an absolute true statement.
1:27.0	I've experienced it myself.
1:29.6	It's like the shadow of coincidence looms large over airports, as if some supernatural force.
1:36.1	Yet I'm sure some statistician can break the phenomenon down into percentages and graphs,
1:41.3	and bring it all back to earth.
1:43.0	In the world of missing people, we often talk about coincidences.
1:48.0	We contemplate if its shadow was hanging over this case or that one.
1:52.0	We use phrases like wrong place wrong time and
1:55.2	what are the odds that dot dot dot dot. All signs that we're trying to
2:00.3	answer a fundamental question.
2:02.9	Did this person disappear due to bad luck?
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