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Nicholas Maschuci: Close To Home

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Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas James Maschuci was a 60 year old from Kearny, NJ. He was a businessman and sharp dresser. On September 18, 1974, he had lunch with his daughter, then said he was driving to Brooklyn for business but didn’t say who he was meeting. A couple days later his car was found in Manhattan. He was never seen again. Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/nicholas-james-maschuci NAMUS: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/9701/0/ Mary Ferrell Foundation: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=86487&relPageId=4&search=maschuci If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Nicholas Maschuci, please contact the Kearney Police Department at (201) 998-1313. 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. --thank you to the most recent contributors: Kee and Barb. --I cannot thank all of Unfound’s supporters enough. Unfound merchandise: Volume 1 and 2 on Amazon in both paperback and ebook form. --let’s try to work on getting some great reviews for Volume 2. --if you’ve bought, please give it a nice review. --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

Nicholas James Masucci was a 60 year old from Carney, New Jersey. He was a businessman and sharp dresser.

0:06.0

On September 18th, 1974, he had lunch with his daughter, then said he was driving to Brooklyn for business, but didn't say who he was meeting.

0:15.8

A couple days later his car was found in Manhattan. He was never seen again.

1:07.5

I'm at Denzel and this is unfound. I'm going to Oh, There's a saying that if you travel far enough you'll meet yourself and in fact, in fact, genetically and in terms of evolution, scientists believe and given that there are over 7 billion people on the Earth, there is somebody

1:11.4

who looks exactly like us on this planet.

1:14.0

Our Doppelganger, or are we those people's doppel gangers?

1:19.0

It's hard to say.

1:21.0

Given that, I guess it could be literally true that if we travel far enough we could meet someone who is us, at least as far as looks are concerned.

1:31.0

Well, for the last year and a half, since starting

1:33.3

unfound, I knew eventually that if I covered enough cases,

1:37.4

figuratively traveling all over the United States,

1:40.5

that I would meet myself, that there would be a case that I was connected to in some way

1:45.9

and in fact if I had been a reporter I might have had to recuse myself given my closeness

1:51.7

to the case at the time.

1:54.0

Well, today is that day.

1:57.0

This is the case where I meet myself.

2:01.0

But I only had to travel to New Jersey to do it.

2:04.4

So it was actually close to home,

2:07.6

me originally being from Pennsylvania.

2:10.2

But this episode is called close to Home for another reason.

2:13.0

You'll hear why shortly.

2:16.0

And now a summary of the case, this is brought to you by my friend Megan Goodsight, Charlie Project.org.

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