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Speaker 6 Welcome to a new episode of Up and Vanished. This episode is going to be a question and answer episode.

Speaker 6 We've collected a lot of your questions and we're going to do our best to have Payne and Mike and myself occasionally answer them and give you the best answers that we can with what we can tell.

Speaker 6 Obviously, there's still a lot of moving pieces and there are a lot of things that we can't talk about yet, but we're happy to answer as many questions as we can.

Speaker 6 So I'd love to introduce the one and only Payne Lindsay and Mike Rooney. We're just going to start here at the top of our list, and we're just going to work our way down, answer as many as we can.

Speaker 6 So, first question. Hey, Payne, you've spent a lot of time focusing on Oregon John, and I think some of it is warranted.
But are there any other suspects, persons of interest?

Speaker 1 Oregon John is front and center of Flo's case because, as far as we know, he's the last person to see her alive. Just plain and simple.

Speaker 1 Had her belongings in his tent. There are definitely other people, names that have been brought up.
We have censored a few of them and we've talked to a few of them.

Speaker 1 No matter how you slice it, his name comes up in the story no matter what that night when Flo went missing and he remains at the center of the investigation.

Speaker 1 But there are other people that we are aware of and other theories that also involve John himself that we've been looking into as well.

Speaker 1 And just to clarify for everyone, the first eight episodes were mostly about Florence.

Speaker 1 And as a listener, it might sound like we have stopped investigating her case, but it's truly exactly the opposite. We plan on doing a lot more episodes of this season,

Speaker 1 and there will be a third installment of this season that shifts the focus back to Flo's investigation and continues on with Joseph's as well.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's probably the most

Speaker 7 often asked question that we get is that,

Speaker 7 did we forget about anyone? And it's like, no, we didn't.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 quite the contrary.

Speaker 1 I've learned more about Flo's case in the last couple of months than I have. in the last two years.
So, and you'll and you will hear all of that.

Speaker 6 So, this next question comes from Christine. How far in advance do you start working on a case before production begins on the podcast?

Speaker 6 Did you know from the beginning Flo's disappearance would be the subject of the next season? And if not, at what point is that decision made?

Speaker 1 We work pretty far in advance because we know as soon as like once the podcast is out,

Speaker 1 the cat's out of the bag, and

Speaker 1 our investigating strategy has to change completely. We worked for, I want to say, almost close to a year on

Speaker 1 Flo and Joseph's cases before the podcast came out. We were in Nome.

Speaker 1 No one besides the people that we talked to and interviewed really knew what we were doing there. So we didn't stick out like that.

Speaker 1 We definitely would now, I believe, but we made a conscious collective decision to cover both of these cases this season right from the get-go after receiving the emails from their families and just doing some of our own preliminary research.

Speaker 7 Yeah, the stars kind of aligned because not only were these families reaching out, but one of the sound designer, the guy who makes the masters, Cooper, who's not here right now, is actually from Alaska.

Speaker 7 So that was a little more incentive, right, for you to go to Alaska and do a story or do cases in Alaska.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he first showed me the story, and we have thousands of emails in the up and vanish inbox, Tenerfoot inbox, just everywhere, right?

Speaker 1 And I just typed in GNOME

Speaker 1 and there were two emails and they were from the families. And like to me, that was like a stars aligning moment and

Speaker 1 it just looked like there was a lot of bad stuff happening in this place. And the families were familiar with this podcast and

Speaker 1 wanted

Speaker 1 our help to put it in the spotlight and try to find out as much as we could.

Speaker 6 This next question comes from Maxime. I'm just curious, when you and your production team go and meet someone that could be dangerous like Oregon John, do you have some sort of protection with you?

Speaker 1 It depends on what you mean by protection.

Speaker 1 I mean, we actually debated.

Speaker 1 Yeah, not

Speaker 1 bodyguards, if that's what you're referring to. to.
We actually debated a lot on whether or not we should be armed in certain situations this season specifically.

Speaker 1 The state of Alaska seems to be pretty loose on guns out there. Really,

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 we try to protect ourselves in being 10 steps ahead

Speaker 1 and thinking about every worst case scenario. And if it goes this way, we have a plan for it.

Speaker 1 And if it goes that way we have a plan for it and so when meeting someone like Oregon John that was probably the craziest thing we've all collectively done thus far and we didn't know how that would go or or if it would even go but we knew that if we were in a public place

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 out in the open there was only so much that could happen in all likelihood, but still a very scary, real risk that we were taking and you know, took but took very seriously because we're not trying to get hurt out here either.

Speaker 1 So, right.

Speaker 7 And honestly, it's it's just it feels a little icky googling like, how do you get on a plane with a gun? Like, that never felt

Speaker 1 yeah, it's like we were trying to avoid it. Like, bringing that thought into the mix just sort of almost creates this, you know,

Speaker 1 like war scenario that we're, we're just simply trying to ask questions. And so we're not trying to combat anybody.
If anything, we're de-escalating from the start, or at least trying to.

Speaker 7 Yeah, and I think bringing a gun to any situation is just you're, you're asking to escalate it. Like you're saying, this is more of

Speaker 7 just asking questions, just trying to get someone on the record. Bringing a gun to that kind of situation is probably like, you're putting some weird, not intentions in your head but you know

Speaker 1 you're putting it out there yeah you're being a little more paranoid so i remember we quickly abandoned the idea of like traveling with a gun or any it's like yeah are we planning on using it it's like i hope i hope not right so um i i think there's a lot to be said about the element of surprise and when something happens all of a sudden if you if you just pop up somewhere and randomly start talking to somebody and interviewing them or ask ask them questions about a case,

Speaker 1 there's a moment where they're still figuring out what's going on and you already know exactly what's going on.

Speaker 1 Regardless of how nervous I am, they're still piecing it together and by the time they are

Speaker 1 or do it all,

Speaker 1 it's over

Speaker 1 sometimes in situations, in

Speaker 1 some situations like that.

Speaker 6 This question comes from Lauren. She wants to know how much time passed from when you first reached out to Oregon John to when you actually met him I want to say about eight months.

Speaker 1 I sent a message on Facebook from this fake Facebook account that I have way, way early on and he actually responded to me and I just kind of acted like he might know who I am or something or just, you know, I think I said something like,

Speaker 1 How's Alaska been? Or I don't know, something like that.

Speaker 1 And he responded probably like eight months later, when we were on the mission to find out where he was and go and try to actually interview him, is when we kind of

Speaker 1 were in the dilemma of do we approach him this way or that way?

Speaker 1 And so regardless, I started messaging him again from that same account, just being friendly, also to try to find out where he was because we didn't really know and no one knew.

Speaker 1 So I think planting the seed of that first message eight months earlier is why he probably met with us in the first place. I think that it would have been way

Speaker 1 more sus looking if we just came out of the woodwork and said, hey, do you want to meet tomorrow?

Speaker 1 Just out of the blue.

Speaker 7 It was really a puzzle that ultimately you figured out, Payne, how to find him.

Speaker 7 Which I don't know if you want to talk about, but yeah, just we were racking our brains for days trying to figure out where he was going to be, when.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and

Speaker 1 we had

Speaker 1 several other plans ready to go and then realized that that's not going to work. Oh, wow, he's not even going to be there.
So where is he going to be?

Speaker 1 We're not going to go to his house.

Speaker 1 And so, like, how do we meet him out in public?

Speaker 1 And, I mean, you heard all that in the Finding John episode. But yeah, we really did not know what to expect,

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 I think that the original Facebook message I sent about eight months prior is what brought some validity to,

Speaker 1 in his eyes, of

Speaker 1 why he should meet this stranger.

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Speaker 6 Sabrina asks, Now that the podcast is out, does Oregon John know who you are?

Speaker 1 Oregon John most certainly knows who I am.

Speaker 1 Hi, John. Yeah, we knew that eventually that was going to happen, right? Just based on past experiences, you know, V-Dog,

Speaker 1 one of the main persons of interest in season three, Ashley's case, Cooper and I flew out specifically to Montana one week to go find him and talk to him.

Speaker 1 And if you recall, it didn't go over that well.

Speaker 1 He didn't want to talk, right?

Speaker 1 And looking back, that was a more dangerous situation than Org and john because we were up on this hill way out in the middle of nowhere and i was in his house waiting for him to come upstairs just making small talk with his roommate once he learned why i was there and what i wanted to talk about he was pretty pissed about it and

Speaker 1 just kind of reflecting back on that you know i i asked as many questions as i could as i was walking out the door as he's asking me to leave his property and doing all those things.

Speaker 1 But you can only learn so much in a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1 He's like being defensive and he's, it's not an actual interview or conversation that you could yield a lot of beneficial evidence from if there was any to be found.

Speaker 6 During your conversation with Oregon John at the bar, he mentions this crazy theory that her body was stuffed in a barrel on some meth dealer's property.

Speaker 6 So the question is: Danielle asks, is there any validity to that theory? And have you heard that from anyone else?

Speaker 1 He's the only person I've heard tell a story like that. I've heard the specific being in a barrel in someone's house.
No one else that I've talked to at all has made that bold of a claim or assertion.

Speaker 1 Maybe if you look back,

Speaker 1 John claims that she's dead, murdered, and knows who did it. No one has said that besides him.

Speaker 1 And so I don't believe that story, but I think we know some of the people he might have been referring to in that narrative that he gave to us.

Speaker 1 But my gut is that he just said that because he wanted to move on. in the conversation.

Speaker 1 And you got to remember, we were at the bar with John for over two hours, and we didn't just talk about Gnome and Florence the whole time, because that would have been very weird.

Speaker 1 It naturally came up in conversation super early when he talked about gold mining and gnome, and then we just kind of kept it going, and why'd you leave? And so

Speaker 1 really the The hardest part of that conversation was trying to find ways to go back to that conversation again when he wanted to talk about other things.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he really wanted to talk about guns and his wife and not about gnome.

Speaker 7 But yeah, I think you're right. I think he was trying to put like some finality on it where he was even saying like the FBI solved it or found the guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's like, that's over. Yeah, that was, that's what I got out of that was that, yeah, she was murdered and put in a barrel and it's under this meth dealer's house.

Speaker 1 And, you know, they thought it was me, but it, you know, but they, they solved it. It's good now.
Because we were playing dumb, like we don't, like, we don't know shit about this case.

Speaker 1 But I think he said that just to, yeah, like he said, Mike, to close it out and move on.

Speaker 6 Will any of the footage or audio tape of John be admissible for the FBI or the Gnome police?

Speaker 1 Admissible. I think that only refers to the courtroom.
If, you know,

Speaker 1 if a judge finds

Speaker 1 this tape admissible based on XYZ,

Speaker 1 I'm not an expert in that area.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 in terms of a police investigation, absolutely. If there's a recording of somebody that says something suspicious or

Speaker 1 slips out some sort of admission of something, then police always use that kind of stuff.

Speaker 6 Whitney says, what made you want to go deeper into your own experience while making this season? I really love hearing more about your own emotions, feelings, experiences while tackling this case.

Speaker 1 Well, first of all, thank you because Reddit does not.

Speaker 1 To me, the experience is so is so bizarre and so real.

Speaker 1 And sometimes

Speaker 1 in an episode, it can sound super cinematic and

Speaker 1 almost in some way maybe like take away from

Speaker 1 the reality of it all and so just kind of reflecting back on three seasons of up and vanished i wanted to kind of pull the curtain back a little bit more and let you hear some of those inside conversations the stuff that happens before and after

Speaker 1 and take you into my head in a moment just to like take you there as close as I can because that's what we experienced. That's how I experienced it.

Speaker 1 And I think that it shows how high the stakes really are

Speaker 1 and is also a reminder of how real these people's lives are. And that to me is of utmost importance.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think it's a reflection of, you know, your evolution as like a

Speaker 7 podcast host.

Speaker 1 I can already see someone on Reddit or somewhere,

Speaker 1 there he goes, patting himself on the back again.

Speaker 1 So go ahead and shut up.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I like the question, and I appreciate that you appreciated that part of

Speaker 1 In the Midnight Sun. I wanted to let you in a little bit more.
You can view that, hear that, however. I can't control that.
But for me, sincerely, it was being more vulnerable.

Speaker 1 And I felt like that was

Speaker 1 important in stories like this to give you as much context as possible and

Speaker 1 also

Speaker 1 help gain trust with other people. You know, just being real and being real with them and you know, not being afraid to show what's going on.

Speaker 6 Mickey asks, What's the hardest part about creating a podcast in Alaska? Do the locals seem receptive to you solving this case?

Speaker 1 Honestly,

Speaker 1 like 99%

Speaker 1 of the people in GNOME,

Speaker 1 from my experience that I've talked to, were

Speaker 1 super helpful.

Speaker 1 They wanted to talk. Even if they were nervous or scared, they overcame it and they

Speaker 1 were willing to do whatever they had to do to get this story out there on a bigger platform because it affects their everyday life.

Speaker 1 There's only a handful of people that have been weird about talking to us. And no one has the obligation to talk to any journalist or podcaster at all.

Speaker 1 And it doesn't mean that you're suspicious or guilty if you don't. But

Speaker 1 I would say, honestly, 99% of the people in Gnome

Speaker 1 have met us

Speaker 1 mostly with open arms. There's been some hesitation, but we've worked at gaining that trust.

Speaker 1 And there are people who are just saying, fuck off.

Speaker 1 But that's everywhere. Yeah.

Speaker 7 I think a cool thing about Gnome is they're very aware of these cases.

Speaker 7 And if you talk to anyone about Florence's case, they'll probably bring up Joseph's case or they'll probably bring up Sonia Ivanov.

Speaker 7 They don't want these things happening in their town. And if you talk to him about Joseph's case, they'll bring up Florence's case.

Speaker 7 They're very aware of this. And they know

Speaker 7 there's been some wrongdoings that I don't think anyone in the town wants repeated.

Speaker 1 They're also perplexed as to why the police have not solved these cases. And for a lot of people who live there, that reality

Speaker 1 is way different. To live in that and to not feel like you can trust law enforcement on a daily basis, I can't imagine what that's like, especially in a place like Nome, isolated and far out there.

Speaker 6 Shannon asks, what's up with the Discord? How's that working out for you?

Speaker 1 The Discord is insane. We knew it would be.

Speaker 1 If you've been a longtime listener of Up and Vanished, and if you were there in the beginning, 2016, 2017, we had a discussion board that was really, really active. And

Speaker 1 the suspects and the community were all up in there.

Speaker 1 And it was

Speaker 1 a crazy place because

Speaker 1 everyone's kind of hiding behind a username,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 you know, there's a level

Speaker 1 everyone's pretty much anonymous unless they say who they are or prove who they are, or someone comes out of the woodwork and proves to us that that is who that is.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 really, it's an investigative tool.

Speaker 1 It's not really like a

Speaker 1 fan club group or discussion.

Speaker 1 It's a place where

Speaker 1 people can speak anonymously

Speaker 1 and a place where we can hopefully find new leads

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 try to control the chaos as much as possible.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it turns into a lot of fighting almost every time we do this, which is a bummer. But I know it's going to happen no matter what.

Speaker 1 Yeah. People just get, I mean, they're going to get pissed.
And so, yeah, there's a lot of babysitting that happens as well. And,

Speaker 1 you know, not knowing who to trust in there as a moderator or whoever. And people just making things up out in the open and shifting things in directions that it shouldn't be going in.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 the good thing that comes out of all of it, the silver lining is that we see all this. Like, we're logging all of this.

Speaker 1 And I know for a fact there's been some people in the Discord who are purposefully making shit up

Speaker 1 because they're guilty of something.

Speaker 6 I guess that's kind of the uh the double-edged sword of anonymity, you know?

Speaker 6 Like, you can get really great tips because people aren't afraid to come forward, but you also get a lot of just like assholes who are just stirring up drama just for the sake of drama, you know?

Speaker 6 Absolutely. So it's hard to sift through that, but I feel like we're doing a good job with the amount of people who are in there and we're finding good information and maybe finding new leads.

Speaker 6 Who knows?

Speaker 1 Definitely.

Speaker 7 Trolls will come out no matter what. There's always trolls.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Trolls be out there. They find those Discords.

Speaker 6 So a bunch of people are asking about Joseph's cell phone. When he went missing,

Speaker 6 Was his cell phone recovered? Was there information that was recovered from that that's been useful to the investigation?

Speaker 6 We haven't really discussed it in the podcast, but what can you say about that?

Speaker 7 Yeah, they never found Joseph's phone, unfortunately.

Speaker 7 And the cell towers there, I think what I've seen from the private investigators' homework and investigation is that there's really only one tower, one cell tower in GNOME.

Speaker 7 So there's no way to triangulate any kind of location of where he was

Speaker 7 during that weekend. So yeah, there's not much to go off there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, all the information we have in regards to Joseph's phone are from his actual cell phone records themselves.
And unfortunately, they don't have a detailed spell out of what

Speaker 1 his text messages were saying.

Speaker 1 We know his WhatsApp messages to his fiancé because we have her ends of the conversation. But unfortunately, we don't have Christine's because she

Speaker 1 wiped her phone or something.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so getting more into the specifics of some of the people surrounding the case, a bunch of people are asking about Joseph's fiancé, Megidd Ryder. What can you tell us about her?

Speaker 6 She hasn't really played a main part in the podcast per se, but is there anything going on behind the scenes with her?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 personally, I talk to the families a lot, Meg being one of them.

Speaker 1 She's been an active participant behind the scenes, regardless of whether or not you've heard like a full interview from her or something.

Speaker 1 But she's the one who gave us all of the voice notes you you heard of Joseph's real voice and has worked in tandem with the family

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 his entire friend circle since day one

Speaker 1 and spearheading

Speaker 1 trying to find out what happened to him. And so we talked to a lot of people, her included,

Speaker 1 that are close to the victims,

Speaker 1 even if you don't hear interviews with them per se.

Speaker 6 So another question that's come up a few times. People are really curious about Joseph's credit card statements.

Speaker 6 One of the things you figured out in the podcast was that his credit card was used after he had disappeared. Are there going to be any new updates on that?

Speaker 6 And is there any plan to try to investigate that any further?

Speaker 1 Yes. So we've done done a lot of homework on that specific thing.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I've been trying my hardest to pinpoint particular items that were purchased at the Bonanza Express.

Speaker 1 And I have the birth dates

Speaker 1 of

Speaker 1 the individual who made the purchases, who bought this stuff.

Speaker 1 But in all likelihood, it seems like the birthdays that were punched in was just like if you went to your local supermarket and they're like, oh, you're over 21, and they just go boop, boop, boop, boop.

Speaker 1 And it's put in a random,

Speaker 1 you know, birthday. But we do know who those individuals are.
I think that they're completely unrelated.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 we know specific items that were purchased that were purchased repeatedly on different days. So

Speaker 1 likely the the same person or group of people buying this stuff.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we've done our best to try to find out who would have bought those things without letting the cat out of the bag.

Speaker 1 But we also plan on, based on how much further we get, just straight up telling you guys. Because I think that the community itself could answer.

Speaker 1 that question if we if we just tell them specifically what it is. so definitely more to come on that and

Speaker 1 that was that like that that was the cliffhanger of the first installment but we've been we've learned a lot about the credit card issue

Speaker 1 you know there's stuff about the security footage from there that's gone it ties in in other ways to the story but we plan on telling you as much as we know about that specific piece of evidence, if we want to call it that, very soon, actually.

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Speaker 6 So another big question we're getting, people are really wanting an update on the Pescoia family and how they're involved in this case.

Speaker 6 I know early on when we talked to private investigator Andy Klamser, we had mentioned, you know, is there something to this, the Pescoias being involved?

Speaker 6 And his take seemed to be that it was just such a large family in such a small town that eventually you just couldn't help but run into a Pescoia.

Speaker 6 But I'm curious, like, what your take is on what you've uncovered through all of these files, listening to everything, talking to people in Gnome.

Speaker 6 Where are you with that?

Speaker 1 Regardless of whatever last name or whatever family you want to refer to, in Joseph's case, like in the case of Joseph's disappearance,

Speaker 1 there are people

Speaker 1 that we have interviews with, recordings of,

Speaker 1 who have

Speaker 1 bold-faced, lied repeatedly on different occasions, and their stories just don't match up.

Speaker 1 Now, I don't know. That doesn't,

Speaker 1 everyone isn't guilty of something, right? Like, that's impossible. But

Speaker 1 why

Speaker 1 is anyone lying when you're being questioned by an investigator about a missing person who's supposedly your friend

Speaker 1 or, you know, someone you consider family yourself?

Speaker 1 Why is there any need to lie about anything? And

Speaker 1 it's not just stuff like, I forgot the exact time or this or that.

Speaker 1 We have a lot of tape thanks to all the hard work that was done. And we have a lot of new tape to compare it to.
We can see what someone said eight years ago and see what they're saying now.

Speaker 1 We can see what they said in July of 2016 or October of 2016. And

Speaker 1 those things are not adding up. And it appears like a narrative was being stitched together in some way, shape, or form is the only way that I can rationalize it.

Speaker 1 And the only way to clear it up is if any of these people

Speaker 1 talk

Speaker 1 to whoever. And they can say,

Speaker 1 I've already talked to the police. Well, if the police is your cousin, or

Speaker 1 if it's still unsolved, like, and he's your friend and you care about this missing person, then talk again. Like, everyone else is talking.
You know what I mean? So I think that there probably is

Speaker 1 a level of fear

Speaker 1 in

Speaker 1 some people in Gnome, in terms of their closeness to certain people.

Speaker 1 Maybe they've been friends for a long time and they didn't know all this stuff and they don't want

Speaker 1 their family name to be brought down in some way if somebody

Speaker 1 a lone individual did something, right? But there are there's a pattern of lying that we have discovered here

Speaker 1 from

Speaker 1 people who are related to each other, and that's just a fact.

Speaker 1 Do

Speaker 1 do whatever you want with that, but when they lied to police officers, that that's a crime. So, and it seems like every day we find a new one.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 we'll outline all of this stuff very specifically so you can see what we're talking about. And

Speaker 1 you don't have, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to stitch it together. It's this person saying this on this date, and then this on this date, and then this on this date.
Why are those things so so

Speaker 1 off and why doesn't it match this? They all couldn't have happened.

Speaker 1 And why is it that it's all connected to one group of people who are saying these things that don't match when mostly everything else does add up?

Speaker 1 So it's just like a common sense thing that, you know, I think

Speaker 1 had investigators kept investigating, they would have probably been able to get to the bottom of a long time ago.

Speaker 6 Kind of a follow-up question.

Speaker 6 I know that you've spent a lot of time reaching out to a lot of people who are close to this case, and you aren't getting a lot of responses from some of the people that you're hoping to talk to.

Speaker 6 And I think because of that, you're having to rely on a lot of second-hand accounts and second-hand information to piece together these narratives.

Speaker 6 If, assuming that these people are listening, is there anything that you would want to say to them that might convince them to want to talk to you?

Speaker 1 I mean, assuming that any of them are listening, if I've tried to talk to you and you've declined

Speaker 1 and you're scared or nervous about what's going to happen if you do, if you're genuine with me, there's really nothing to be afraid of, especially if you didn't do anything wrong, right?

Speaker 1 Even if you did do something wrong. or

Speaker 1 you know something that happened and

Speaker 1 you're a witness of something.

Speaker 1 It feels like now would be the best time to say something because

Speaker 1 I think when it's all said and done and we've packaged up all that we know and what we've discovered and combined that with all the eight years of work on Joseph's case,

Speaker 1 it's going to land on an investigator's office that's not local,

Speaker 1 who we're going compel to go investigate because crimes were committed in terms of lying to the cops. And I don't know about you guys, but like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Isn't it

Speaker 1 in every true crime documentary you've ever watched? If you lie to the cops, they

Speaker 1 pick you up and interrogate you. That just seems like it's, I don't know.

Speaker 6 No, yeah, I think that's totally, that's what it is.

Speaker 6 you know it's like they kind of either just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time or by doing the wrong things at the wrong time made themselves the center of this investigation you know that because of that they've always been in that place now and it's unfortunate but that's how the cookie crumbles i guess you know and all we can do is just track that down and do our best to get to the the real story there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I think at like early stages when you hear the investigators talking to people like Jake,

Speaker 1 they only knew so much because it was very fresh. They knew that Jake had lied and texted his friends to create an alibi, but that's really all they knew.
But the lines go beyond that,

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 can be factually, literally, physically proven.

Speaker 1 beyond eyewitness accounts. And so it wasn't just, okay, we get it, you were nervous, we'll let you pass on this one.
I think the whole I was just nervous thing

Speaker 1 becomes a little

Speaker 1 a little flimsier

Speaker 1 if

Speaker 1 there's more lies uncovered after the fact.

Speaker 1 And so we'll see if a higher government agency wants to take that seriously. And we'll do our best to present it in

Speaker 1 a digestible, legitimate way, professionally, and

Speaker 1 with the help of you guys, the listeners. And

Speaker 1 we can

Speaker 1 make some noise about, hey,

Speaker 1 we think something's wrong with this.

Speaker 1 Why don't the people who can actually do anything about it, can actually make an arrest, can actually bring bring the sort of justice that we're talking about in terms of breaking laws, murder, we can try to compel them to go look into this again.

Speaker 1 And I think if they do,

Speaker 1 they're going to say, holy shit, it's right here in front of us.

Speaker 6 So we have so many questions asking the same thing here. Everyone wants an update on what's going to happen with Flo's case.

Speaker 6 Is there any plan for the future of Up and Vanish to do more of a deep dive on Flo or Oregon John or the case in general?

Speaker 1 The answer is absolutely yes.

Speaker 1 We already have so much new information that we're compiling and putting together, and you will hear it.

Speaker 1 The first seven episodes of this season were mostly focused on Florence's disappearance. And towards the end, we dovetailed into Joseph's case.

Speaker 1 And just like we did in the first half, we're going to do the same coming up. And we plan on doing another installment of at least eight episodes after this

Speaker 1 that focuses on both now that we collectively know the information, right? And we'll obviously catch you up to speed and remind you and recap you on important details.

Speaker 1 But now that we're collectively familiar with these cases, moving forward, it's going to become a podcast series about both cases in tandem.

Speaker 6 So that's all the time we have today to answer these questions. We really appreciate you sending us these questions and showing us how interested you are in this investigation.

Speaker 6 It fuels us to keep going, and in turn, it allows us to give you better content. So thank you for your time.
And thank you, Payne and Mike, for taking the time to answer these questions.

Speaker 6 And we'll see you next week on Up and Vanished in the Midnight Sun.

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Speaker 2 Up and Vanished in the Midnight Sun is a production of Tunderfoot TV in association with Odyssey. Your host is Payne Lindsey.

Speaker 2 The show is written by Payne Lindsay with additional assistance from Mike Rooney. Executive producers are Donald Albright and Payne Lindsey.

Speaker 2 Lead producer is Mike Rooney, along with producers Dylan Harrington and Cooper Skinner. Editing by Mike Rooney and Cooper Skinner with additional editing by Dylan Harrington.

Speaker 2 Supervising producer is Tracy Kaplan. Additional production by Victoria McKenzie, Alice Kanik Glenn, and Eric Quintana.
Artwork by Rob Sheridan. Original music by Makeup and Vanity Set.

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Speaker 2 Special thanks to all of the families and community members that spoke to the team. Additional information and resources can be found in our show notes.

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