Hi crime junkies, I'm your host Ashley Flowers and this week we're going to do something a little bit different.

You already got your full-length episode on Monday, but February 3rd was National Missing Persons Day, and so one

story didn't feel like enough for the thousands upon thousands of people still

missing in the United States.

According to Namus at the time of this recording, they have over 24,000 active missing persons

cases in their database.

And while we can't cover all of them, we wanted to release these many episodes to highlight some missing people, some whose cases have almost no information on them.

And we're going to be doing this across multiple audio Chuck shows and the cases we've chosen

are actually all tied together in a certain way.

They're all from a music video from back in 1993. Now what I didn't know

until recently was that the band's soul asylum actually featured pictures of

missing kids in their video for Runaway Train.

Alongside the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, they featured a total

of 36 missing kids.

Now, 21 of those cases were resolved because of that video.

Several had satter endings where the children were determined to be deceased,

but there were at least still answers. However, we found out that there are still some

children from that original list of 36 that haven't been found even all these

years later and we wanted to bring you those stories.

No matter how much information there was,

or more accurately wasn't, there for us to work with.

So today, here on Crime Junkie, Britt and I are going to take turns telling you

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