Susan Marable Part 2: Whispers from the Past
The Vanished Podcast
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4.5 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Susan Marable disappeared from Yakima, Washington, on an April evening in 1991. She left, saying she would be back, and was never seen or heard from again. There was a story about a sighting of Susan getting into a maroon truck. However, that story remains unconfirmed. Susan’s mom worked diligently in the early years to find her daughter, but beyond her work, there isn’t much evidence of further efforts to locate Susan. Despite this, Susan’s little sister, Robyn, has continued to pursue answers. Thirty-three years after Susan mysteriously vanished, Robyn now has the support of law enforcement, a local reporter, and one of Susan’s friends from that time. Together, they are sifting through memories, old notes, and records to identify the men who were preying upon women in Yakima in 1991, hoping to find any clue that could lead them back to Susan.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get started, just a brief disclaimer. This episode contains discussion of several distressing themes. |
| 0:15.0 | Please take care while listening. I've got a number of theories. One of them does not include her just picking up and running off and starting a new life somewhere. |
| 0:30.0 | I don't think that that happened. So that is such a rare occurrence and I know probably law enforcement has a bad rap for doing that especially in the past. |
| 0:38.0 | You know looking at a missing person case as a less important case because it's just a missing person case and I hate to think |
| 0:46.0 | that that was done in this case but I guess I'll just go back to people rarely just pack up and |
| 0:51.8 | leave and never contact their family again. |
| 0:54.4 | I don't think that that's what is what happened. |
| 0:56.7 | It's hard to say what did happen. |
| 0:58.2 | Could Susan have overdosed with somebody and somebody got scared and disposed of her body. |
| 1:05.0 | Yep, I don't know that that's a likely theory, but that could happen. |
| 1:10.0 | I think the more likely and plausible explanation is that Susan went out to find a date that night and she found someone and that someone kidnapped and murdered her. |
| 1:23.1 | That's probably the most plausible. |
| 1:25.6 | They're easy prey because their credibility |
| 1:28.0 | is probably looked at as less |
| 1:30.5 | and they're, for a lack of a better term an easier victim. |
| 1:35.0 | That's unfortunately the way predators look at women like Susan and others and they |
| 1:40.1 | don't look at them as real people. |
| 1:42.4 | They're objects. |
| 1:45.0 | Susan Marable disappeared from Yakima, Washington on an April evening in 1991. |
| 1:50.0 | There was a story going around about Susan being seen getting into a maroon truck, |
| 1:54.7 | though that story has never been confirmed. |
| 1:57.1 | Susan's mom worked diligently in the early years to find her daughter, |
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