Katherine Hammontre Sundquist

The Vanished Podcast

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4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In April 2019, Katherine Hammontre Sundquist embarked on a hike with friends and her beloved dog, Tootsie, in a national park near San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. Their destination was a picturesque waterfall. Before the hike, Katherine had injured her foot, and not long after beginning the trek, she informed her friends that her foot was hurting. She decided to stay back at the first set of pools with Tootsie while the others continued on to the waterfall. It would take the group approximately 50 minutes to reach the waterfall and return to where Katherine was waiting. However, by the time the group returned, both Kat and Tootsie had vanished. Despite extensive searches of the area, no trace of either Katherine or Tootsie has ever been found. As news of Kat’s disappearance spread, rumors began to circulate within the community of San Felipe. People pointed fingers in various directions, but more than five years later, the mystery of what happened to Katherine Hammontre Sundquist remains unsolved.

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0:00.0	Going through all these different theories and talking to this person over here or this person over there, you generate all these different stories and scenarios.
0:18.0	And then it's always a dead end. There's always another question. There's always
0:22.6	something that doesn't make sense or doesn't fit. And you end up right back at the same place of
0:28.4	just not knowing. I'd like to think my aunt's alive and well somewhere. The likelihood of that is
0:34.1	slim. How come, you know, there's no trace of my mom or the dog? You can't tell me
0:38.6	Tootsie didn't go to the bathroom up there, but I guess they didn't find anything. At some point,
0:43.0	she had said, well, if I get bit by a snake, don't come looking for me, because I won't be there.
0:48.0	And to this day, I mean, five years, every single day, I think about my mom and I go over this whole scenario over and over and
0:56.2	over in my head and that always pops up and I think, okay, something happened to her. You don't just
1:00.9	disappear. In April 2019, Catherine Hammondree Sunquist embarked on a hike with friends and her
1:08.5	beloved dog, Tutsi, in a national park near San Felipe,
1:12.0	Baja, California, Mexico. Their destination was a picturesque waterfall. However, just days before the
1:18.9	hike, Catherine had injured her foot, and not long into the trek. She mentioned to her friends
1:24.0	that her foot was hurting. Kat decided to stay behind at the first set of pools with
1:28.4	her dog, while the others continued on. From that point, it would have taken the group roughly
1:33.2	50 minutes to make it to the waterfall and back to where Catherine was waiting. By the time the group
1:38.4	returned, both Catherine and Tootsie had vanished. Despite extensive searches of the area,
1:44.0	no trace of Catherine or her dog
1:45.7	have ever been found. After word spread about cat's disappearance, rumors began to swirl around the
1:51.4	community of San Felipe. People were pointing fingers in every direction. But more than five
1:56.8	years later, the mystery of what happened to Catherine remains unsolved.
2:05.5	I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 470 of The Vanished,
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