In August of 2012, 33-year-old Tamala Wells drove off into the night—and vanished.
Days later, her car was found abandoned on Detroit’s east side. The door was open. Her clothes were inside.
But Tamala was gone.

She hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

Her longtime boyfriend claimed she simply left… but the things he said—and didn’t say—have raised disturbing questions.
Why did he describe her disappearance as a relief?
Why did the investigation go quiet so quickly?

For nearly 13 years, Tamala’s mother has searched abandoned buildings, chased down leads, and begged for the truth.
And someone, somewhere, knows what happened.

In this episode of They Disappeared, Pat Draven investigates the mysterious disappearance of Tamala Wells—and the unsettling silence left in her wake.

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Sometimes they return.

A child disappears into the woods—alone, afraid, and unequipped to survive. Days pass. Hope fades. But then, against all odds, they come back… with stories no one can explain.

In this episode of They Disappeared, host Pat Draven investigates three chilling, real-life cases of children who vanished into the wilderness—and returned with accounts that defy logic.

Each story is real. Each child was found.
And each one leaves behind a question far stranger than the search itself:

What helped them survive?

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On Christmas Day in 1996, a Texas mother of three vanished—and was never seen again.Her van would be found abandoned. Her home held disturbing clues. And nearly three decades later, her family is still searching for answers.

In this episode of They Disappeared, host Pat Draven revisits the haunting case of Patty Vaughan—a woman full of life, music, and love—whose final hours remain shrouded in silence. Was it a tragic runaway… or something far more sinister?

Listen now and decide for yourself.

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In the quiet town of Stillwater, Oklahoma, a young man steps out of a car near a lake… and vanishes. No text. No trace. Just silence.

Years later, his mother is still searching—not just for her son, but for answers that no one seems willing to give.
A volatile relationship, a mysterious drop-off, and a system that won’t look deep enough.

What really happened to Dusty Koal Clark? And why has his case been buried beneath excuses and neglect?

In this haunting episode of They Disappeared, we dive into a story of heartbreak, injustice, and the chilling silence left behind when someone simply... disappears.

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A teenage girl vanishes just weeks before her sixteenth birthday. No leads. No search. No urgency. And when her family finally speaks up… it’s already too late.

In this episode, we explore a case where silence speaks louder than answers, and the truth has been buried deeper than anyone could have imagined. What begins as a simple disappearance slowly unravels into a chilling tale of secrets, silence, and a family fractured beyond repair.

Was she a runaway? Or was she erased?

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In this episode we revisit the disappearance of Madalina Cojocari. We also cover the updates that came from the court cases against Madalina's mother and stepfather.

We continue to monitor this case and pray for resolution.

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In this episode of They Disappeared, we once again cover Asha Degrees case, recent developments match a theory we provided 5 years ago in our first Asha Degree episode. Host Pat Draven compares that earlier theory to the recent movement in Ashas case, and the possibility the case could be solved this year.

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Imagine waking up with no past—no name, no ID, no memory of how you got there. One man was found behind a Burger King in Georgia, unconscious and covered in fire ant bites, with nothing to hint at who he was or where he had come from. As investigators searched for answers, unsettling details emerged—fragments of a lost life, cryptic recollections, and an identity that seemed to have been erased.

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This episode revisits the baffling disappearance of Nikki Beauregard, a 41-year-old woman who vanished in the Nevada desert during a trip to Las Vegas with her boyfriend, Eric Covington. What was supposed to be a weekend of boating and fun at Lake Mead took a dark turn, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions, shifting stories, and suspicious behavior. Exclusive interviews with those closest to Nikki—some speaking out for the first time—reveal tangled relationships, hidden tensions, and inconsistencies that cast doubt on the official account of what happened that day. Was Nikki the victim of foul play, or did she disappear by choice? As new details emerge, this episode pieces together the last known moments of her life, challenging listeners to decide what they believe happened on the day Nikki disappeared….

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In this episode of They Disappeared , Host Pat Draven walks us through the unsettling mysteries surrounding the small mountain town of Silver Plume, Colorado—a place where history and tragedy intertwine. Beginning with the haunting legend of Clifford Griffin, a grief-stricken miner whose sorrowful violin once echoed through the valley, the story shifts to two eerie disappearances that occurred a century later. Both men, drawn to Silver Plume’s quiet isolation, ran businesses in the same building before vanishing under strange circumstances

As the podcast unravels the chilling connections between these events, it raises unsettling questions about coincidence, fate, and the secrets the mountains may never give up.

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