Mandy Stokes: A Hard Place

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Alicia Amanda Stokes, Mandy to those who knew her best, was a 33 year old from Oakland, CA. Although she’d been on the West Coast for a few years, she planned to move back to be with her mother on the East Coast. On November 25, 2007, she left in her car after having an argument with her roommate—her brother, Aaron. While driving, Mandy was on the phone with her boyfriend when the line went dead. Mandy’s car was found. She was never seen again. Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/alicia-amanda-stokes NAMUS: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/2968/2/ Investigation Discovery Page: http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/disappeared/meet-the-missing/mandy-stokes/ Article about Mandy's disappearance: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/01/14/missing-woman-case-puzzles-oakland-police/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Mandy Stokes, please contact the Oakland Police Department at 510-238-3641 Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, Podbean, and Spotify. --in particular, please join us on Wednesday nights at 9pm Eastern for the Unfound Facebook Live Video show which is hosted on the Unfound Podcast Page . . . NOT in the private group. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has Patreon and PayPal accounts. Unfound merchandise: Volume 1 and 2 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --the playing cards—go to makeplayingcards.com/sell/unfoundpodcast --shirts for ALMOST ALL Unfound’s cases at unfound-podcast.myshopify.com --this includes the flagships t-shirt, The First Year Cases, that has a collage of everyone from Suzanne Lyall to Jennifer Wilkerson. Please check it out. And please mention Unfound on all true crime Facebook pages, and other websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alyssa Amanda Stokes, Mandy to those who knew her best, was a 33 year old from Oakland, California.
0:08.0	Although she'd been on the West Coast for a few years, she planned to move back to be with her mother on the East Coast.
0:14.0	On November 25, 2007, she left in her car after having an argument with a roommate, her
0:20.1	brother Aaron.
0:21.9	While driving, Mandy was on the phone with her boyfriend when the line went dead.
0:26.5	Mandy's car was found. She was never seen again.
1:11.0	I'm at Denzel and this is unfound. I'm going to So, We've all been there. We've all been there. We get ourselves into a situation where there appears to be a way out. In fact, there appears to be all sorts of choices. But each one of them
1:16.0	has consequences we can't live with. In fact, sometimes those kinds of predictments are worse
1:22.3	than having no choices at all.
1:24.8	At least when there are no possibilities, we can kind of just leave everything up to fate.
1:30.6	But as adults and most of the time, we are expected to make a choice.
1:36.0	Whether it has to do with our intimate relationships, do we continue to stay in a loveless marriage for the kids,
1:42.0	or do we tear our own life and their life apart by getting divorced?
1:46.9	Our job, do we sell our company stock when we know bad news is coming, which is illegal,
1:52.4	or do we keep our stock and suffer the huge monetary loss?
1:56.5	Our family, do we keep a parent on life support for one more day and hope for a miracle,
2:02.2	or do we tell the doctor to pull the plug right then?
2:05.0	No good choices.
2:07.0	As the saying goes, we are in between a rock and a hard place.
2:12.0	For the guest today, she is caught between two inconceivable choices.
2:17.0	On one hand, she wants to find out what happened to her daughter, even if it means Mandy isn't of this earth anymore, but in doing so she may send her
2:26.0	son to jail since he is a suspect. On the other hand if Mandy's case isn't pursued, this mother will never get the answers she deserves.
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