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Hey, listeners, this is Matt Frederick from iHeart
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Podcasts. Have you heard about the new true
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crime podcast from the team behind Up
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and Vanished. It's a brand new series
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called Status Untraced. What
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if, while traveling abroad, your friend
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simply vanished? Who would you call?
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What would you do? In twenty sixteen,
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that's what the friends of Justin Alexander
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were faced with. An adventurer
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and world traveler, Justin disappeared
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on a trek in the Himalayan Mountains. His
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friends and family took action. They
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flew to India to organize searches.
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They found evidence and an arrest
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was made, but shortly after the
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main suspect was found dead in his
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cell. The case was called for years
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until now. Dive deep
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into the investigation with host Liam
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Luxen As the podcast investigation
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uncovers the strange events surrounding
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Justin's disappearance. This
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is Status Untraced. Check
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out the trailer one
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Guy.
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He went missing for thirty years,
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Why he was hiding himself, why
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he disappeared?
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Nobody knows.
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At the northern edge of India, attracting
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thousands of tourists every year is
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the Parvati Valley. Many
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come for the beauty of the Himalayas. Others
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to party, but then there are
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some drawn in search of enlightenment and
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this place changes them.
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There are stories from that part of the world where they'll
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say, like, oh, the person didn't come back
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because they didn't want to come back, just
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to create the story and the scene through
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all this stuff along the river, and then
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he just vanished. The
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phenomenon called India syndrome
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could be choked up to the valley spiritual allure.
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But something else is going on here. There's
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a string of disappearances, many
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foreigners, and nearly all of
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the cases unsolved. A
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Polish national is missing, Odeta
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Houton at twenty four from Camp.
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We merctlessly beaten to set hate,
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befriended a baba shortly after,
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and disappeared.
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That valley is beautiful and enchanting,
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but it's very dangerous. Nefarious
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things happened there. I
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fell upon one of these cases of an
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American world traveler gone missing. The
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circumstances of his disappearance were
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suspicious, so I flew halfway
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around the world in search of answers, and
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what I found I could have never imagined.
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You could read his posts about the guru.
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He knew this guy was bad news.
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The guy getting hung out of nowhere
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makes you go, there's something
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else you think.
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He's like drobbing them in and taking the stuff.
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He's basically muggering. A
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new investigated podcast from the team behind
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Up and Vanished. This is
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Datus Untraced. Available
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now Listen for free on Apple Podcasts
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or wherever you get your podcasts.
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From Tenderfoot TV. Up and Vanished
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Presents Untraced Available
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now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio
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app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
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