Missing for Christmas

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In December 1997, a young mother disappears three days before Christmas and is never heard from again. Did Beth Ann Ricketts run away from her life? Was she abducted? Does her fiancé know more than he’s saying? Twenty-five years later, Beth Ann’s daughter wants to know what happened to her mother. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It was just total straight radio silence from Beth from the early morning to December 22nd
0:13.4	on except for one person, her fiance, who claims that he talked her by phone and saw her
0:19.4	face-to-face.
0:21.7	Other than that, nobody that really brought a great amount of concern to us, you start
0:28.8	to become incredibly concerned that something horrible has happened.
0:32.2	It's December 22nd, just a few days before Christmas in Des Moines, Iowa.
0:45.4	Ten-year-old Shonda and her three-year-old brother Jonathan are giddy with excitement about
0:50.1	the upcoming holiday.
0:51.2	Their mother, 31-year-old Beth Ann Ricketts, loves to celebrate Christmas and always tries
0:57.4	to make it special for the family.
0:59.5	She would never miss such an important day.
1:01.6	But three days later, when Christmas finally arrives, Beth Ann has vanished and her children
1:08.0	are desperate for her to return.
1:18.0	I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Missing for Christmas.
1:33.0	December 22nd, 1997, is a cold and quiet morning at the Des Moines, Iowa home of Beth Ann
1:39.1	Ricketts and her two children, Shonda and Jonathan.
1:42.7	Shonda knows her mother is at home because she saw her leave earlier, so she's surprised
1:48.0	when at about 10 a.m., her mother's boyfriend Bill comes into the house.
1:54.9	I'm making a bowl of frosted flakes, I'm sitting there eating it and all of a sudden the door
2:01.1	opens, so it's Bill and he's like, hey, I need you and Jonathan to get ready.
2:06.8	We're going to Gina's house because my mom's slept on the ice and I got to take her
2:10.1	to the hospital.
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