Replay: Brenda Sue Davidson
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired on September 12, 2018.
13-year-old Brenda Sue Davidson disappeared from Woodbridge, Virginia, on March 4, 1974. Her little sister, Lisa, was just seven at the time. She grew up believing that Brenda ran away. When Lisa grew up, she decided that she wanted to find her sister. When she began asking around, the stories didn't seem to make sense. She started to wonder if her father's abuse had gone too far and if the runaway story was a cover-up.
Lisa desperately wants answers and is looking for anyone who may have known her family back then.
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| 0:00.0 | One I think they're going on what my mom and dad said and that's it and okay well maybe she'll come home thank you very much but I feel like |
| 0:26.1 | my dad done something to her it's just blows my mind at all the stuff that I have found out and it's been over 20 years that I've been trying to find answers. |
| 0:37.0 | They can call anonymous, they don't even have to give their name or anything. |
| 0:41.0 | If that's what they're worried about. I just want closure. I don't need to know anything else. I mean if my dad did something to her I mean he's passed away. |
| 1:02.0 | On March 4th, 1974, 13-year-old Brenda Sue Davidson, left her school in Woodbridge, Virginia and never returned home. |
| 1:03.0 | She had been talking about running away with some friends, but on this particular afternoon, |
| 1:08.1 | they weren't with her. |
| 1:09.8 | Brenda's mom was told that a woman from the Greyhound bus station had gone to the police and said that she sold a ticket to a young girl, but she couldn't remember where she was going. |
| 1:19.0 | Apparently, the woman from the bus station was so worried about leaving the girl alone at the station |
| 1:24.0 | when she had to run an errand, that she decided to take her along with her to the bank, bringing |
| 1:29.0 | her back before the bus arrived. |
| 1:31.7 | Whether this is true or whether this young girl was Brenda |
| 1:34.7 | cannot be verified. In the 44 years that have passed since that day, |
| 1:39.2 | Brenda's sister Lisa has never given up hope that she would one day find out what happened to her sister. |
| 1:44.9 | Lisa was just seven when Brenda disappeared and as she grew up she began trying to piece together |
| 1:50.0 | information. |
| 1:51.6 | While doing that, she realized that things didn't quite add up and now questions |
| 1:55.6 | her parents entire story about Brenda's disappearance. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 139 of the Vanished Brenda Sue Davidson's story. I'm going to be. This August, the best-selling phenomenon, it ends with us. |
| 2:39.6 | If you had a daughter, what you say to her? |
| 2:41.5 | That captivated the world. |
| 2:43.0 | We all have an idea of what love can be. |
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