Nicholas Marion Part 2: Breaking Point
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Last week, we brought you Part 1 of Nicholas Marion’s story, and you learned about his life growing up in the Orlando, Florida, area and his eventual move to British Columbia after marrying a woman from there. After relocating, the distance between Nick and his loved ones in the U.S. seemed to widen. In retrospect, Nick appeared increasingly isolated and dependent on his wife.
Months before his disappearance, Nick's mother passed away, and while he remained strong for those around him, the emotional toll began to show over time. In June 2024, Nick and his wife traveled to Youbou, British Columbia, to attend the Laketown Shakedown Festival, staying at a property owned by one of her friends. His wife claimed that Nick was struggling that weekend and didn’t even want to go. She said he left early Sunday morning for a walk and never returned, ultimately reporting him missing later that day.
Nick’s family quickly made their way to Canada upon hearing of his disappearance, diving into the search efforts. But as they began to ask questions, doubts started to surface about the details they were being told. Was everything truly as it seemed, or was there more to Nick's disappearance than anyone realized?
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| 0:00.0 | When I came through customs, they asked me the purpose of my visit. |
| 0:14.0 | I told about my son and the customs officer there had already known about his disappearance, |
| 0:20.0 | which was kind of hopeful to me when I first |
| 0:23.0 | arrived at that they were at least looking for them. They had a picture of them there at the |
| 0:27.3 | customs office. I came through on a ship. We actually went to some of the ships, passed out flyers |
| 0:33.8 | to them. We just did a whole lot. Just no results. There's nothing. But we kept bringing up |
| 0:40.3 | our concerns to the RCNP. To me, you got to do your job and rule it out. This is really the perfect |
| 0:47.5 | storm and worst case scenario for someone's disappearance. You're in the middle of nowhere. It's a |
| 0:53.4 | different police force that you're not familiar with as far as being American. You're in the middle of nowhere. It's a different police force that you're not |
| 0:55.1 | familiar with as far as being American. You don't really know the people. There's all of these |
| 1:00.7 | strange things happening in conjunction with the situation. Nick has the son that just graduated. |
| 1:07.5 | I was the other red flag. He missed his birthday, which was July 7th. If he had just |
| 1:12.9 | walked off or anything, we believe he definitely would have contacted his son. Last week, we brought |
| 1:19.1 | you part one of Nicholas Marion's story. You learned about his life growing up in the Orlando, |
| 1:24.1 | Florida area, and his eventual move to British Columbia after marrying a woman |
| 1:28.7 | from there. After relocating, the distance between Nick and his loved ones in the U.S. seemed to |
| 1:34.0 | widen. In retrospect, Nick appeared increasingly isolated and dependent on his new wife. |
| 1:40.3 | Months before his disappearance, Nick's mother passed away, and while he remained strong for those |
| 1:45.5 | around him, the emotional toll began to show over time. In June 2024, Nick and his wife traveled |
| 1:52.0 | to U-Bow British Columbia to attend the Lake Town Shakedown Festival, staying at a property owned by one of |
| 1:58.2 | her friends. His wife said that Nick was struggling that |
| 2:01.1 | weekend and didn't even want to go. Nick's wife said that he left early Sunday morning to go for a walk |
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