In the winter of 1981, Bud Rogers woke his children up at 3 a.m. and hurried them to the babysitter's house.

He claimed his wife, Lahnine, had left in the middle of the night and he was going to go out looking for her.

43 years later, Lonnie is still missing and her daughter is pushing to find out what happened.

I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Today's episode was sent my way by the advocacy organization Light The Way.

I have worked with them before on the Leonic Kinsey case and I really appreciate how they

work with families to line them up with resources they need, including media.

Sources for this episode include a timeline of events that light the way sent over to me,

an interview with Lonnie's daughter, Allison's memoir, A Daughter's Journey, and Story of Resilience.

I'll leave links to light the way as well as where you can buy the memoir in the show notes.

Let's go ahead and get started with Lonnie. by the memoir in the show notes.

Let's go ahead and get started with Lonnie Ray Raffle, who was born in October 1951 to Raymond

and Maxine Raffle.

Lani was their first child.

As a baby, Lani was happy and content, but the family started noticing little things that

concerned them.

There would be a loud noise and Lonnie wouldn't react.

They'd say her name or start talking outside of her field of vision

and she wouldn't turn her head.

But babies develop at their own pace, so it was initially brushed off.

Eventually, Lonnie was far enough behind that it was obvious something was going on.

At 18 months old, they learned that Lonnie was profoundly deaf.

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