Madeline Babcock

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

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

4.5 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

It was during the summer of 1968 that a 35-year-old woman named Madeline Babcock disappeared from Venice, California. Madeline’s apartment appeared to have been cleared out. Her family reported her missing, but the police didn’t seem interested. Madeline had a right to move and not tell her family. She had the right to disappear if she wanted to. Around this same time, a little girl in Washington believed she witnessed her father and his friend murder a woman. These two stories would move parallel through time over a period of decades before eventually converging once that little girl grew up and started looking for answers to the memory that had plagued her for years.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Madeline Babcock, please contact the Los Angeles Police Department’s Adult Missing Persons Unit at (877) 275-5273 or the Vancouver Police Department at (360) 693-3111.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:19.4	We always just believe that grandpa knocked her off made her disappear. That's what the whole family had believed for
0:25.8	forever until Jody Story came out. Did he have involvement? I'm still extremely skeptical
0:33.4	because of the fact that nobody knew she was gone and her apartment was completely empty
0:40.0	of everything. There was nothing. She worked at the bar around the corner. She had an acquitter job.
0:44.9	They have that on record from the owner. Didn't even realize that, you know, hey, she didn't show up for work
0:51.7	but had heard from her. And then when she traveled, she traveled up to Washington. I believe on a bus
0:58.2	and probably only had a suitcase. It was during the summer of 1968, when a 35-year-old
1:06.2	woman named Madeline Babcock disappeared from Venice, California. Madeline's apartment
1:11.3	appeared to have been cleared out. Her family reported her missing, but the police didn't seem
1:16.7	interested. Madeline had a right to move and not tell her family. She had the right to disappear
1:22.7	if she wanted to. Around the same time, a little girl in Washington believed she witnessed her father
1:28.6	and his friend murder a woman. These two stories would move parallel through time over a period of
1:34.4	decades before eventually converging. Once that little girl grew up and started looking for answers
1:40.1	to the memory that had plagued her for decades. Amarissa and from Wondery, this is episode
1:46.0	355 of The Vanished. Madeline Babcock's story.
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2:27.3	Before we get started, I wanted to mention that this episode is more graphic than most of our
2:32.3	episodes. This episode contains descriptions of adult subject matter, including violence and
2:38.0	sexual assault. Please take care while listening. This is one of the strangest stories that we have
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