Richard Johnson
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Around 10 PM on May 7, 2023, 63-year-old Richard Johnson left the apartment he shared with his wife in Lansing, Michigan. Rick planned to walk to a friend's apartment nearby. The friend lived in a different complex, but it should have only been a short walk to get there. Rick never returned home that evening, which was very out of character. Rick and his wife, Kim, were extremely close; some would say attached at the hip. Rick wouldn't have left Kim there to worry about him all night. Plus, Rick had some severe health concerns and wasn't known to stray far from home. By the following morning, Kim was concerned enough to alert the authorities and, later, their children, Justin and Jessica. Since that day ten months ago, Rick's family has been searching for any clue that could point them toward where Rick may have gone or what could have happened to him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members you can listen to the vanished ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.1 | Download the app today. I don't get it. A man who couldn't just fit in with the crowd if you wanted to |
| 0:21.0 | how does he just vanish without a trace that's your |
| 0:24.4 | biggest fear is your dad and it's not like your dad got sick and we took him to |
| 0:28.9 | the hospital and he didn't come home with you it's your dad left home and he never made it back. If I went missing, I'm a 35 year old female. Now if I went to |
| 0:37.9 | somebody's house, I were to be called missing and somebody told five different stories would it be treated the same why |
| 0:45.0 | is he being so disregarded when we're telling you there is something wrong how is somebody |
| 0:50.3 | able to change their story so many times without being considered |
| 0:53.5 | suspicious and you still want to think oh no there's no foul play you don't know how |
| 0:57.9 | many times people just decide to go live somewhere else. |
| 1:01.5 | Around 10 p.m. on May 7th, 2023, 63-year-old Richard Johnson left the |
| 1:07.2 | apartment that he shared with his wife in Lansing, Michigan. Rick planned to walk |
| 1:11.2 | to a friend's apartment nearby. |
| 1:13.0 | The friend lived in a different apartment complex, |
| 1:16.0 | but it should have only been a short walk to get there. |
| 1:18.0 | Rick never returned home that evening, |
| 1:20.0 | something that was very out of character for him. |
| 1:23.0 | Rick and his wife Kim were extremely close, some would say attached at the hip. |
| 1:28.0 | Rick wouldn't have left Kim there to worry about him all night. |
| 1:31.0 | Plus, Rick had some serious health concerns and wasn't known to stray far from home. |
| 1:36.5 | By the next morning, Kim was concerned enough to alert the authorities and later her children, |
| 1:41.5 | Jessica and Justin. |
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