The Missing

The groundbreaking podcast The Missing returns for Season Three. Hosted by journalist Pandora Sykes, The Missing looks into the cases of the long-term missing and asks you, the listener, to help. Brought to you in association with charities Locate International and Missing People, every week we explore a different case, hear original interviews with family and friends, and ask the questions that need to be answered...

Nineteen-year-old Luke Durbin went missing in the early hours of Friday, May 12, 2006. Luke, from Hollesley, had gone for a night out with friends in Ipswich on Thursday May 11th, leaving his mobile phone and other personal belongings, including his motorbike, at a friend’s house in Woodbridge. He went to Zest nightclub in Ipswich with friends, but became separated from them during the evening...

Marcus Rigby - or Marc to his loved ones - disappeared in April 1995, aged 27, after saying he was ‘going away’ and would ‘phone in a week.’ It was a call that has never been made to his family, who were living in Grange-over-Sands at the time of his disappearance. After 27 years, Marc’s family are still full of hope for his reunion with them. 

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Maria Bernadette Aldridge was a 17-year-old cadet nurse, who disappeared some time during the summer of 1968, during her second year at a nurse cadet course at City Hospital. Her sister Cathy tells Maria’s story, including the details of a mysterious letter found decades later.

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Kevin Fasting went missing from Liverpool, Merseyside, on November 21st, 2003, leaving behind a note for his children as the only clue to where he’d gone. This episode of The Missing tackles the issue of suicide, and meets a son who will never stop searching.

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Sandy Davidson, 3, disappeared on April 23rd, 1976, while he was playing in the back garden of his house in Irvine, Ayrshire. His two-year-old sister - who was playing with him - provided a key piece of evidence at the time, and tells The Missing how she’ll never stop looking for her brother.

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Gary Burns was working in the Turkish resort of Icmeler when he disappeared without a trace, in the summer of 2016. Originally from Birkenhead, Gary had lived in Turkey for several years, after starting a relationship with a Turkish woman during a holiday. Gary’s family became worried when they didn’t hear from him for a few months, and his brother – Terry – reveals what the years since have been like for the Burns family...

On the 29th of October, 2004, a woman was seen jumping from the window of the 21st floor of Wembley Point, London, England. She was wearing a maroon bomber zip-up jacket with fabric cuffs, a black leather glove on her right hand and a very thin black polo neck jumper. Over the top of this, she wore a claret crew neck jumper. She wore black tights, trousers and black Sketchers boots with a zip and buckle on the sides...

Steven Cooper’s car was found abandoned at Loch Laggan in the Highlands after he drove hundreds of miles from his home near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on January 21st, 2008 - his 47th birthday. Extensive searches were carried out over a 50 square-mile area, using RAF helicopters, search dogs and mountain rescue teams but no trace of him has ever been found...

Fiona Sinnott, 19, went missing on February 8, 1998, after leaving her local pub in Broadway, Ireland, to make the 14km walk back to her home. She was never seen again. Fiona’s cousin and sister reveal what they believe happened to her, as well as how the family took the search for her into their own hands. And the episode explores a terrifying detail: Fiona is just one of a number of lone women, who disappeared from an area of Ireland dubbed ‘The Vanishing Triangle’...