Replay: Judith Brown
The Vanished Podcast
Wondery
4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
19-year-old Judith Brown disappeared from New York City in April of 1977. Judith lived on her own, so her family wasn’t immediately aware that she was missing. Judith’s family learned she was missing when the FBI came knocking at their door. They were shocked to learn that Judith had disappeared along with someone else, a murderer who had escaped from a local mental health facility. More than 45 years later, both of them remain missing. For many years, Judith’s family kept quiet about this. It was too upsetting to reopen those wounds. As the years wore on, a younger generation of Judith’s family took an interest in finding answers. Today, they are left to sift through the remaining clues passed down through family members and old documents.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Judith Brown, please contact the NYPD Missing Persons Squad at 212-694-7781.
You can follow this case on social media at Judith Anne Brown Missing - “Vanished With a Killer.”
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to the vanished ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts. Some people talk about cold cases and cases just being really cold cold and |
| 0:25.1 | Arctic. I mean for me I'm like okay well this is like an iceberg and all the |
| 0:30.0 | cold cases that we know about are above the water and this one is so cold |
| 0:35.0 | and it's still below the water. This is the first time I'm ever able to speak about |
| 0:41.1 | it in a platform more than just me and a family member. |
| 0:44.7 | Judy's like, the girl the time forgot. |
| 0:47.0 | And I find it heartbreaking and I just want to advance and get somewhere with it. |
| 0:51.9 | These letters, like they do help in a lot of ways and I think as I go |
| 0:55.2 | through them more and more and analyzing them there's a lot of interesting stuff in it. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't think it's going to lead me to a direction in terms of where to look, but it definitely helps me to establish this idea that something happened to her and even if it wasn't by his hand or on purpose she's probably not coming back. |
| 1:17.0 | I was reading even today about oh yeah I have classes tomorrow and this exam and you know like somebody in the middle of their life and then all of a sudden it's like poof never seen or heard from again. |
| 1:30.0 | 19 year old Judith Brown disappeared from New York City in April of 1977. |
| 1:36.0 | At the time, Judith was living on her own, so her family wasn't immediately aware that |
| 1:41.6 | Judith was missing, and much of Judas |
| 1:44.3 | last known footsteps before she disappeared remain a mystery to her family even today |
| 1:48.9 | 45 years after she vanished. But back in 1977, Judith's family learned she was |
| 1:56.2 | missing when the FBI came knocking at their door. You see, Judith had |
| 2:01.0 | disappeared along with someone else, a murderer who had escaped from a local |
| 2:06.2 | mental health facility. |
| 2:08.2 | More than 45 years later, both of them remain missing. |
| 2:12.1 | For many years, Judith's family kept quiet about this. |
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