Patricia Taylor: The Runaway

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Patricia Lynn Taylor was a 15 year old from Oklahoma. She lived at the Tulsa Girls Group Home and worked at Sonic. On August 31, 1981, after a year in which she ran away a couple times but always came back, Patty told co-workers she was getting on a bus—presumably to run away once more. She was never seen again. Website: https://insearchofpatricialynntaylorblog.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patricialynntaylornov231965/?ref=br_rs Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/patricia-lynn-taylor NAMUS: https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/31371/30/ Websleuths: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?296558-OK-Patricia-Taylor-14-Tulsa-County-1-Jan-1980&highlight=patricia+taylor If you have any infromation regarding the disappearance of Patricia Taylor, please contact the Tulsa Police Department at (918) 596-9222. Unfound is on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, iTunes, Podomatic, Stitcher, TuneInRadio, Podbean, and Overcast. And remember, Unfound is now on Spotify. Email: [email protected]. The website: Unfoundpodcast.com—please check out the secret Steven Koecher episode. --And now, if you click on the Merchandise button, it will show the links to both the books on Amazon and the playing cards at makeplayingcards.com. Please visit the page at your convenience. The website at Trib Total Media: triblive.com/news/unfound Unfound has a Patreon account: patreon.com/unfoundpodcast Unfound also has a PayPal account. --just do a search for the Unfound email address: [email protected]. --and thank you to Roseanne and Andrea for their contribution this past week. 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	Patricia Lynn Taylor was a 15 year old from Oklahoma.
0:03.2	She lived at the Tulsa Girls Group home and worked at Sonic.
0:06.7	On August 31st, 1981, after her year in which she ran away a couple times but always came back.
0:14.1	Patty told co-workers she was getting on a bus, presumably to run away once more.
0:20.1	She was never seen again.
0:23.0	I'm Ed Denzel and this is unfound. I'm going to do. Oh, It's a parent's worst nightmare. Waking up to not find your son or daughter in his or her bed.
1:04.0	To get home from work to find your child never came home from school.
1:08.0	To go pick up your teenager from an event,
1:11.0	only to find out that your teenager was never there in the first
1:14.3	place. Even though I'm not a parent I can imagine myself going over these what-if
1:20.4	scenarios many times if I were.
1:23.4	But if you are a parent of a child under the age of 18,
1:26.8	you should know some statistics.
1:29.3	A vast majority of children under that age
1:31.5	disappear for one of two reasons, abduction by a parent or the
1:36.4	child is a runaway.
1:38.6	And as you can imagine as a child gets older, 13 years old, 1416 the more the stats get skewed toward the runaway scenario
1:48.6	meaning as much as parents worry about the stranger abduction possibility. They should be much more
1:54.2	concerned with their ex-husband or ex-wife or what is going on inside their
1:58.6	teenager's mind. The good news, almost all young people who disappear are found, alive and well.
2:07.0	Then there's Patricia Taylor. She didn't live with her parents. Her family was a group of girls exactly like her.
2:15.0	The adults watching over them did it because it was their job, not due to a sense of love and caring.
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