Missing the Missing - a true crime podcast

08/08/2025

🚨MISSING 🚨FLORIDA🚨

🚨💔 SAD UPDATE: BODY OF MISSING TEEN GIOVANNI PELLETIER FOUND IN FLORIDA 💔🚨

💔 On Friday, August 8, after a week of searching, the unthinkable happened: Giovanni’s own family found his body in a retention pond near the very spot his belongings were recovered. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office later confirmed the heartbreaking news. His cause of death has not yet been determined, and an autopsy is pending.

🚨🕯️**“MOM, HELP.” A TEXT. A MISSING SON. AND THEN… NOTHING.**🕯️🚨
📍 Bradenton, Florida — August 1, 2025

😢 18-year-old Giovanni Pelletier is missing — and his last message to his mother will haunt her forever:
“MOM, HELP.”

🧳 Giovanni had traveled from North Carolina to Florida with his mom Bridgette Pelletier, her fiancé, and his four siblings to visit a family member battling cancer. But Giovanni also had another goal: reconnect with his father’s side of the family, whom he hadn’t seen since he was a small child.

📲 Days before they arrived in Englewood, Giovanni joined a group chat with cousins from his dad’s side and made plans to hang out. Despite it being late, 1:30 a.m. on Friday, August 1, Giovanni left with three of those cousins — with Bridgette’s fiancé seeing him off.

💤 Bridgette had been asleep studying for her pharmacy board exam. But at 1:56 a.m., Giovanni called her. Then FaceTimed. Then texted:
“MOM HELP.”
He also messaged her sister and his grandfather.

😱 When Bridgette woke at 6:20 a.m., it was already too late. She missed all of it — the calls, the texts, and even a missed call from one of the cousins who picked him up.

📞 Later, she got a voicemail from Giovanni’s grandfather saying there was an "altercation" and that the cousins left Giovanni on the side of the road in Bradenton, more than an hour away. He ended the message saying:
“Let me know when you find him.”

📍 Bridgette raced to Giovanni’s GPS location. What she found shattered her:
His backpack.
His phone.
Abandoned on the side of the road.

💬 “He eats, sleeps, showers with that phone,” she said. “He wouldn’t have left it. Something is wrong.”

🗣️ One cousin later told her they smoked w**d in the car and claimed Giovanni started to panic and “acted erratically.” They alleged Giovanni pulled a knife, and after wrestling it from him, he ran off.

"When that happened, they said they wrestled the knife from him, and then my son took off running," Bridgette says.

But police say something different: that Giovanni simply “began acting erratically and exited the vehicle near SR70.”

🚫 Bridgette isn’t buying it. She says the cousins are hiding something — and none have helped search or even asked if Giovanni was found.

🛑"None of these kids that were with him have tried to call me and ask me if I found him, asked me if he's okay, asked me anything," she says.

💔 “He is the protector in the family,” she said. “He’s the kid that would never just vanish. He would never leave me hanging like this.”

💵 A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to Giovanni’s safe return or an arrest.

📞 If you know anything — ANYTHING — call the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office at (941) 639-2101 or 911.

🕯️ Giovanni is loved. Wanted. Missed.
And someone out there knows what happened.

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The Vivid Faces of the Vanished

15/06/2025

🚨MISSING 🚨CALIFORNIA🚨

🚨EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT. DISAPPEARED FROM A JACK IN THE BOX DRIVE-THRU.💔
📍Beaumont, California | February 23, 2023

🕊️ Her name is Cajairah Jae Fraise. She was 22 years old and eight months pregnant.
She vanished in minutes—wearing a black hoodie, gray sweatpants, black slip-on shoes, and a black shawl—and has never been seen or heard from again.

🍔 On the night of February 23, Cajairah was with her parents in the car at the Jack in the Box drive-thru on Beaumont Avenue.
Her mother, Karah Fraise, says they had spent the day together running errands and preparing for the baby—due March 29.
When Cajairah said she was hungry, they stopped for food.

🚗 While waiting in the drive-thru, Cajairah got out of the car.
“She wasn’t saying much,” her mother recalled.
Her father looked back—she was standing at the end of the drive-thru lane. He paid for the food, pulled forward again, and just like that—Cajairah was gone.

🧭 They searched the plaza. Called 911. But she had vanished into the night.

📹 Security footage later showed Cajairah walking south behind the businesses, and then alone behind a charter school next to the restaurant.
That was the last confirmed sighting.

🚨 Cajairah was from Moreno Valley and not familiar with Beaumont.
Police conducted extensive searches along Hwy 79 between Beaumont and Hemet—on foot, with K9s, drones, helicopters, and planes. Still, no trace.

📞 If you know anything about what happened to Cajairah Jae Fraise, please contact the Beaumont Police Department at 951-769-8500.

🖤 She was 22 years old. She was 8 months pregnant. She was loved. She did not vanish without reason.







The Vivid Faces of the Vanished

14/06/2025

🚨MISSING 🚨TENNESSEE 🚨

Marsha Brantley, born Marsha Ellen Rader, has been missing from Cleveland, TN, since approximately June 2nd, 2009.

Marsha was the only child of her parents, who both passed away in 2000. She never had children of her own. She lived with her husband of nine years, Donnie Brantley, and her three dogs in a house that her parents built for her in Cleveland, TN.

The date of Marsha's disappearance is estimated, as she was not reported missing until November 2009, when her hairdresser and friend, Kelly, noticed that she had not been in for appointments after Marsha's neighbor inquired about her.

The neighbor said that she had not seen Marsha walking her dogs in a while and that her flower beds had not been tended to. This, combined with the fact that Kelly had not seen or heard from Marsha, was a red flag for both the neighbor and Kelly.

Kelly started placing calls to Marsha's phone, but received no answers, and she had no luck getting Donnie on the phone either. The neighbor went to the house to inquire about Marsha, but Donnie answered, saying she had left him and they were getting a divorce.

Over time, Donnie would provide many conflicting statements regarding Marsha's whereabouts. At one point, he claimed that she left to go stay in their camper in Townsend, TN, and on other occasions, he would say she left him to stay with friends out west.

Donnie never reported Marsha as missing and refused to answer questions or help search for her. He lied to police, saying that Marsha took her phone with her and was later caught with it in his possession. As if that isn't bothersome enough, he also used her phone to call the Chattanooga singles line.

After he was initially questioned by police, he took Marsha's jewelry and laptop and sold them to a pawnshop.

He failed a polygraph, and when interviewed, he refused to answer by pleading the fifth or said he could not remember around one hundred times.

It is no surprise that he was and is the main suspect in Marsha's disappearance. He has actually been charged with her murder twice, but both times the charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence.

His Lawyer explains that Donnie never reported her missing because she left him. He says that lying about the phone doesn't make him guilty of murder and that Donnie sold some of Marsha's belongings because he needed cash. His Lawyer also claims that Marsha took an estimated $100,000 in money that they kept hidden in the house when she left. His Lawyer says that he is innocent and that, because no body has been found, there is no proof that a murder even occurred.

Indeed, Marsha's body has not been found, and a crime scene has not been identified. It is also true that 16 years have now passed and Marsha has not returned to get her belongings, including records, sentimental items, her dogs, which she loved so much, her vehicle, or her house that her adoring parents built for her. It is also true that she has been legally declared deceased.

What happened exactly and when it happened remain unknown.

It is reported that Marsha's last conversation was with her friend Kim, who lives in Ohio, on May 27th, 2009. Marsha's phone stopped receiving calls altogether on June 2nd. 2009.

On June 3, 2009, Donnie delivered a greeting card to his ex-girlfriend's mailbox, and on the inside of the card, he wrote, "Things are better for me now."

So what happened to Marsha?

Some say she was very depressed before her disappearance. Some make comments about her weight loss. Some even remark about her struggles with menopause.

I took the better part of my evening to read Marsha's words myself in hopes of getting more of a perspective of who she was.

Marsha was a very talented writer. She was an animal lover who volunteered at a shelter. She was on a slight weight loss journey. She was witty and found humor in many situations, and she was also someone who used her words to raise awareness of situations she felt needed attention. She enjoyed watching movies and reading books. She was very excited about a book she was writing. She did love camping, the wildlife, and Tennessee.

What I did not find was any sign that she was done with life or any warnings that she wanted to leave.

Heartbreakingly enough, I did find that she loved Donnie deeply and that her marriage was something significant to her. Her second-to-last blog entry was in honor of their ninth wedding anniversary.

"I remember Donnie and I saying how much we looked forward to getting past the wedding and getting on with "real" life. Nine years later, a lot of water has gone under that bridge, equal parts happy and sad, and I love him more than I ever thought possible." -Marsha Brantley, March 31st, 2009

Her final blog entry, dated May 10, 2009, is about watching a Star Trek movie with Donnie.

Marsha's Camper was found on property belonging to a relative of Donnie's in 2012.

What do you remember or know about this case? Where is Marsha Brantley?

Are any more of her writings outside of her short story and blog available anywhere to read?

If you have any information, regardless of how insignificant it may seem, please call the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND or the Bradley County Sheriff's Office at 423-728-7336.

11/06/2025

🚨MISSING 🚨DELAWARE 🚨

AMBER ALERT: Police are looking for missing 3-year-old Nola Dinkins after she was taken from her mother at gunpoint in New Castle County, Delaware.

She was last seen on the 500 block of Gender Road around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10.

10/06/2025

🚨MISSING 🚨VIRGINIA 🚨

In Virginia, after days of searching following a crash on June 7, authorities confirmed the worst.
Kyle Coleman’s body was found.
A beloved college student, a son, a friend—gone far too soon.

🔥 HIS IPHONE CALLED 911 AFTER A CRASH—BUT WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, KYLE COLEMAN WAS GONE.
🚨 Tysons, Virginia | June 7, 2025

🔥 19-year-old Kyle Coleman had just finished his freshman year at Morehouse College. He went out with friends Friday night—but never came home. His parents, Cimmerian and Keith Coleman, woke up Saturday morning in Gainesville and knew something was wrong.

🚨 At 11:20 p.m. on Friday, an emergency call was received by Fairfax County 911. But it wasn’t from Kyle himself—it was triggered by the crash detection feature on his iPhone.

🔥 First responders rushed to the scene near Galleria Drive in Tysons, just outside Tysons Corner Mall. His Toyota Yaris had veered off the road into a wooded area. Tire tracks were still visible in the grass days later.
🚨 But Kyle wasn’t in the car.
He was gone.

🔥 When the car was located the next morning at Henry’s Wrecker Service in Merrifield, his parents made a chilling discovery:

His cellphone

His car keys

And a pair of slides were still inside the wrecked vehicle.

🚨 The front of the Yaris was smashed in, airbags deployed, and plant debris embedded in the metal. But no blood. No Kyle. No clues.

🔥 Kyle’s parents fear he may have suffered a head injury, become disoriented, or worse—that something else happened in the woods that night.

🚨 Kyle Coleman was last seen wearing:

A red-and-white Morehouse College windbreaker

Black running pants

🔥 He is described as:

5’11” tall

160 pounds

🚨 Two police departments—Fairfax County and Prince William County—are now investigating. A missing persons report has been filed.
His parents are desperately pleading for the public’s help.

🔥 If you saw anything in the area of Galleria Drive near Tysons Corner Mall on Friday night—or if you know what happened to Kyle Coleman—call 911 immediately.




The Vivid Faces of the Vanished

03/03/2025

🚨MISSING🚨OKLAHOMA🚨

Pshara Marie Jones went missing September 21, 2015 from Claremore, Oklahoma - she was just 20 years old.

Shortly after an argument with her mother, Pshara- known to family and friends as Shara, stormed out of the house. Her mother assumed that she simply needed time to cool off, and Shara would call, like so many other times before. However, this time was different. Shara had left behind her cell phone, and her mother never heard from or saw her daughter again.

Shara had struggled for years with mental illness, she took medication regularly, but is reported to have been more erratic than usual prior to her disappearance. Shara is Black and Vietnamese with black hair and brown eyes. She was 5'3-5'5 and 120-140 lbs when last seen. She was wearing a pink and purple shirt, baggy black shorts, black and white knee-high socks and black and white high-top Nikes. Shara was carrying a black leather backpack. She is listed as # MP31702 in NaMus and there are currently no exclusions in her case.

The night that she went missing, Shara's bank account shows two different transactions. Then, nothing. Shara's mother left the front door unlocked for two weeks, praying for her daughter to come home. Pshara Jones was last seen at 639 Archer Court in Claremore, Oklahoma. Her mother misses her, and just wants her baby home.

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Pshara Marie Jones, please contact the Claremore Police Department (918) 341-1212. You can remain anonymous.

03/03/2025

🚨MISSING🚨OKLAHOMA🚨

Orlandas Cordell Denson has been missing from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma since April 29th, 1994.

Orlandas was last seen around 9-10 pm that night leaving his mother's house, located in the 9800 block of Bartlett Road, where he lived at the time. He had been saving money for an apartment, $600 to be exact, and was carrying it with him. His mom had chided him for carrying so much cash on him. He was also wearing new expensive jewelry. He was on his way to pick up his fiancee and they were going to a club in Del City. He never arrived at his fiancee's house.

His car was found a few days later by two of his sisters and a preacher who were searching for him in the 4200 block of N. Greenwood, near Spencer, Oklahoma. Neighbors stated the car had been parked there for days. There was blood in the car and the drivers side window was busted in.

Orlandas was 5'7 and 145 lbs with black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt, jeans, and white tennis shoes. He often went by Petie. He left behind 4 children. It's unlike him to be out of contact with his children for any length of time. He was very close with his family. He did not have a criminal record.

For an unknown reason Orlandas's case wasn't entered into NaMus until February 27th, 2021, meaning that his case wasn't known or available to the public. He is # MP78345 and there are zero exclusions for him.

Please call the Oklahoma City Police with any information on the disappearance of Orlandas Cordell Denson at 405-297-1129. We can bring him home.

27/02/2025

🚨MISSING 🚨 TENNESSEE 🚨

Sebastian Rogers is STILL missing. This sweet boy's face needs to continue to be everywhere, even after a year.

MISSING Sebastian Rogers
📍 Location: Hendersonville, TN
📅 Last Seen: February 25, 2024
👤 Age Now: 15
📏 Height: 5'5"
⚖ Weight: 120
📄 Circumstances: Sebastian was living with his mother and step father, when he disappeared. On the night of February 25th at 10PM, the mother reported hearing a thud from his room, at which point the mother called out to him to keep it down, which he responded. The following morning he was reported missing and an amber alert was issued. His cell phone, shoes and belongings were still in the house. His case sparked wide spread attention, with numerous searches being conducted, to this day, his disappearance remains a mystery.
📞 If you have any information, please contact the Sumner County Sheriff (615) 451-3838
🌐 Sebastian Rogers Database Entry: https://www.missingpeopleinamerica.org/.../Sebastian-Rogers

Practice pass it forward. Leave love for the missing, that they'll be found safe. What area are you putting their flyer in, online? Are you taking any additional efforts to help find them? Let's bring Sebastian Rogers home

12/09/2024

So glad there is some sense of closure for the families, RIP 🙏🏼

01/05/2024

🚨MISSING 🚨OKLAHOMA 🚨

Four year old Joan Gay Croft was last seen the night of April 10th, 1947 in Woodward, Ok. Joan and older sister Geri where placed in the basement of the only hospital in Woodward after a devastating F5 tornado tore through Woodward on April 9th, 1947.

The tornado killed their mother and critically injured their father H.O. Croft, who was transport to a hospital in Oklahoma City. This left Joan who had a splinter “the size of a pencil” through her knee and Geri alone in Woodward.

The next morning Joan’s Aunt Ruth arrived to the hospital in search of the girls. Aunt Ruth located Geri, but not Joan. Geri told her aunt that “two men in khaki military type uniforms with some type of company logo” had came in during the night and carried Joan away. When Ruth asked the nurse about this, she verified this happening. The nurse told Ruth, Joan was thought to have been taken to a hospital in Oklahoma City. Ruth was unable to ever find Joan.

Joan a white female and, at the time of her disappearance, weighed 42 pounds and was 3’ 5” tall. Joan has strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. She would have chicken pox scares on her forearms. She is waited in NamUs as . Today Joan would be 81 years old.

A cousin of Joan has given a DNA sample, which has been placed into CODIS hoping for a match. If you have any information about the disappearance of missing Joan Croft, please contact the Woodward Police Department at 580-254-8535. You can also submit a tip anonymously to your local law enforcement agency.

26/03/2024

🚨MISSING 🚨 GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE 🚨

JACKSON MILLER
Missing from San Francisco, Ca
Missing Since: 5/15/10
Hair Color- Brown
Eye Color- Blue
Height- 5'10"
Weight- 150-160 lbs
Vanished in 2010, Jackson Miller was possibly sighted. Surveillance images captured the man in question entering the Woodland, CA Target wearing shorts. He later exited wearing black pajama pants with green shamrocks and a dark green sweater. An area business owner later contacted detectives, claiming a man possibly matching Jackson’s description had entered her store looking for a ride to Los Angeles.
In 2010, Jackson Miller left his home in Cupertino, CA and parked his car at the Golden Gate Bridge parking lot. He left his belongings, including his ID & wallet in the car. Bridge authorities reported that there were no jumps from the bridge. There have been several sightings of Jackson in San Francisco and South lake Tahoe. The search for Jackson is still active. If you have any information please contact Santa Clara Sheriff’s Office investigations division at 408-808-4500, text (408) 781-8433 or Nor-Cal Alliance For The Missing anonymous tipline 530-378-4491.

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26/03/2024

🚨 MISSING 🚨MISSOURI 🚨