Lawrence Hammett

The Vanished Podcast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

On the afternoon of June 24, 2023, 41-year-old Lawrence Hammett was transferred from Montrose Regional Health to Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado. Approximately two hours later, a staff member attempted to call Lawrence back, but he was gone. No one knew that Lawrence had been transferred to a hospital roughly two and a half hours away, and they began to notice that they stopped seeing him around town.

Weeks passed without word, and Lawrence's loved ones began comparing notes. No one had heard from him. They searched around Montrose, but there was no trace of Lawrence there. Eventually, Lawrence's sister contacted the Montrose Police Department to file a missing persons report, and they told her that he had been in the hospital and was transferred to Durango.

This news moved their search more than 100 miles away, and by that time, the camera footage from June 24 was long gone. They didn't have any clues to point them in the direction that Lawrence may have gone or if he had left with someone.

More than a year later, Lawrence's loved ones are still picking up the pieces, searching for any information that could help bring the puzzle of what happened to him into focus.

If you have any information about Lawrence Hammett's disappearance, please call the Durango Police Department at 970-375-4700.

If you are in the area and want to help, Lawrence's loved ones are planning a search party in Durango on Oct 5, 2024. You can find more information on the Bring Lawrence Home Facebook page.

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0:00.0	I noticed he wasn't posting at all on
0:09.0	he was going to.
0:10.0	I noticed he wasn't posting at all on Facebook.
0:12.0	I would message him and be like, hey, what's going on?
0:14.4	How were you? I want to say it was that third week of June, we didn't hear from him anymore.
0:21.5	About two months is when I started to think, well, I would have heard from him by now.
0:28.0	I think they had kind of written, Lawrence Hall, this town can be very cruel in that way.
0:33.0	Even if he's dead, I think it would give us all a lot of peace if he was found.
0:38.0	We were each other's life support system for morale and encouragement. We had both been going through
0:44.4	challenging times and it was nice to talk to Lawrence every day. I do really have
0:50.0	always cared about him and always will. He's unforgettable. It was heavy in all
0:55.1	different directions and good and bad and I think about him every day I hope he's
0:59.5	okay. On the afternoon of June 24th, 2023, 41-year-old Lawrence Hamlet was transferred from Montrose Regional Health to Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado.
1:13.0	Approximately two hours later, a staff member attempted to call Lawrence back, but he was gone.
1:19.0	No one knew that Lawrence had been transferred to a hospital roughly two and a half hours away from home.
1:24.4	And they noticed that they stopped hearing from him and seeing him around town.
1:28.3	Weeks passed with no word from Lawrence, and his loved ones began comparing notes.
1:33.0	No one had heard from him.
1:35.0	They were searching around Montrose, but there was no trace of Lawrence there.
1:39.0	Eventually, Lawrence's sister contacted the Montrose Police Department to file a missing
1:43.5	person's report and they told her that he had been in the hospital and was
1:47.5	transferred to Durango. This moved their search more than 100 miles away and
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