15 - The Disappearances of Audrey Moran & Jonathan Reynoso

06/03/20 • 16 min

Still Unknown: An Unsolved True Crime Podcast

26 year old Audrey Moran left her sister's home in Coachella, California on the evening of May 10, 2017 to go pick up her boyfriend, 28 year old Jonathan Reynoso in the town of Brawley and drive him to his home in Palm Desert. The following day, Audrey's family would make numerous attempts to get in touch with her, but after receiving no response, would report her missing. On the morning of May 12, her vehicle was found abandoned on the side of I-10, west of Oak Valley Parkway in Beaumont, California. The vehicle appeared to be in working order but there was no sign of Audrey or Jonathan. A full investigation was launched into the couple's disappearance and 3 main theories would emerge. The first would be speculation that the couple ran away together. The 2nd would involve another man that Audrey was believed to have had a relationship with. The 3rd would be that foul play from another source is possible. It's been 3 years since Audrey and Jonathan vanished. Their cell phones haven't been able to be tracked anywhere, there has been zero activity with their financial accounts, and no other trace of the couple has been found.

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Sources for this episode: https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2020/01/18/the-disappearances-of-audrey-moran-jonathan-reynoso/ https://thetruecrimefiles.com/audrey-moran-and-jonathan-reynoso-disappearance/ https://kesq.com/news/2020/05/10/a-sad-day-for-two-moms-during-the-3-year-anniversary-of-a-missing-coachella-valley-couple/?fbclid=IwAR08ET8CNBaA981k4aoLKXPQjbqAPrXR3VE3wkQGjyeUcGSdEzsZRsDPyOs #BlackLivesMatter Sign the petitions: https://www.justiceforbigfloyd.com/ https://www.runwithmaud.com/ https://www.standwithbre.com/ Where to donate: https://www.naacpldf.org/ https://www.aclu.org/ https://fairfight.com/ https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/

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14 - The Disappearance of Charlotte Pollis (with Myles from the “Forensic Myles” podcast)

Charlotte Pollis was a loving 28 year old mother to her two young children she had with her husband Paul. However, she wasn't happy with her marriage to him. On March 12, 1994, Charlotte would disappear. Paul claimed he had taken the two children out for a day of running errands while his wife tried to rest off her recent illness, and she wasn't home when he returned that afternoon. However, his account of the day would be contradicted in multiple ways and would lead to a feud between his side of the family and Charlotte's side of the family. Despite all the suspicions against Paul, and the fact that he's had several run ins with the law in the years since, he has never been charged in connection with Charlotte's disappearance, and no trace of Charlotte has ever been found. Big thank you to my friend Myles from the "Forensic Myles" podcast for joining me in this episode! Sources for this episode: https://lostnfoundblogs.com/f/charlotte-pollis-a-clean-getaway https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Charlotte_Pollis https://unsolved.com/gallery/charlotte-pollis/ http://charleyproject.org/case/charlotte-pollis https://www.wfmj.com/story/6288219/pollis-receives-sentence https://www.wfmj.com/story/6260716/paul-pollis-picked-up https://www.wfmj.com/story/26203070/more-trouble-for-husband-of-missing-howland-woman https://www.wfmj.com/story/6237346/deborah-toda-sentenced-to-25-years

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16 - The Death of Mitrice Richardson (with Dani from the “Hear No Evil” podcast)

Mitrice Richardson was a beautiful 24 year old woman who had just graduated from Cal State, Fullerton with a Bachelor's degree in psychology and a 4.0 gpa, with plans to become a child psychologist. She was also beginning to exhibit odd behavior and wasn't herself. On the evening of September 16, 2009, Mitrice was driving in Malibu, California, which was 40 miles from her home in Los Angeles, when she made a spur of the moment decision to stop at a restaurant for dinner, a decision which would have a lasting impact on Mitrice and her loved ones. After acting odd all throughout dinner and then attempting to leave the restaurant without paying, the police are called and Mitrice is arrested and taken into custody. When her mother calls the following morning with plans to come pick up Mitrice, she's distressed to learn that Mitrice had been released several hours prior in the dead of night. Her car had been impounded, and she had no phone, no money, no way of getting home, and was in an area she was completely unfamiliar with. Aside from a bizarre sighting later that morning, no trace of Mitrice Richardson was found for nearly a year, until on August 9, 2010, her remains were found in a canyon. Police concluded she had been in a manic state when she entered the canyon and died from exposure, but the family continues to fight for answers. How could someone in a state such as Mitrice was that night have just been allowed to leave in an area she was unfamiliar with, with no reliable way of finding her way home? And how did she truly end up where she would?

Huge thanks to my friend Dani from the “Hear No Evil” podcast for joining me for this episode! Subscribe to her podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hear-no-evil/id1507748156

Sources for this episode:

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/what-happened-to-mitrice-richardson/

https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/woman-found-dead-after-being-released-from-jail-55e6b0fb34c1

https://www.advocate.com/news/news-features/2009/11/16/where-mitrice-richardson

https://www.foxla.com/news/10-years-after-death-of-mitrice-richardson-case-remains-cold

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