Kevin Winters Part 1: Lost in Paradise
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On the evening of September 2, 2021, Kevin Winters was at one of his favorite restaurants having dinner in Lahaina, Hawaii, on the island of Maui. About an hour later, Kevin was seen on camera depositing a check at a nearby ATM. It remains unclear where Kevin went after that time. It’s believed that Kevin had taken public transportation to the restaurant that evening, and the place he had been staying was about 29 miles away. Kevin showed up on the same ATM camera the following morning, still wearing the same clothes he had on the night before. Kevin was once again making a deposit. Kevin walked away from the ATM that morning and was never seen or heard from again. Kevin had a close relationship with their mother; the two spoke twice every single day. When she didn’t hear from Kevin and couldn’t reach him by phone, she knew something was wrong. Thousands of miles away in Michigan, Kevin’s parents decided it was time to report their son missing. Nearly two and a half years later, Kevin’s family is still working to piece together the trail of bizarre clues left behind.
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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. I said, well, I still want to move. It's a little bit. |
| 0:14.0 | I said, well, I still want to move. It too goldier I said I understand that I understand |
| 0:24.7 | that we'll help you find somewhere's warm but where do you want to go he said well maybe |
| 0:28.8 | a cry of why and he went with it and he made a go of it for 15 years until he disappeared off the space of the earth. |
| 0:37.0 | One day he did not call and they tried calling him and they could not get hold of him. |
| 0:43.0 | That's when everything blew up. |
| 0:45.2 | There's something wrong. |
| 0:46.5 | That's like saying the sun came up every day for all of our lives |
| 0:51.4 | and all of a sudden the sun didn't come up, there's a problem. |
| 0:54.0 | There is a huge problem. |
| 0:55.0 | Right away we knew it. |
| 0:57.0 | There's something wrong. |
| 0:58.0 | There's not one ounce of me since day one that for a second thing that he would have made to disappear. |
| 1:05.0 | And some people, in fact my own nephew who went real close with, he says, |
| 1:08.0 | Aunt Karen, when are you ever going to just let it go and kind of be done? I said I can't not advocate my brother. I am his voice. He has nobody. I can't |
| 1:18.1 | undo the crime that was done against him. Do I think that there was a crime? And yes, I do. |
| 1:24.2 | On the evening of September 2, 2021, |
| 1:27.3 | 51-year-old Kevin Winters was at one of his favorite restaurants |
| 1:30.5 | having dinner in Lahaina, Hawaii. |
| 1:32.9 | About an hour later, Kevin was seen on a camera |
| 1:35.4 | at an ATM a few doors down from the restaurant, |
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