SEQUESTERED Podcast

Jennifer Marteliz was seven years old when she disappeared while walking home from school in Tampa, Florida, on November 15, 1982. She was only blocks from home. Witnesses later described seeing Jennifer upset near a crossing guard and possibly near a rust-colored car shortly before she vanished. What should have been an ordinary walk home became one of Florida's most haunting unsolved child disappearance cases.
In Episode 3 of SEQUESTERED Season Four, Sara Reid reconstructs Jennifer's final known moments through witness accounts, search records, media reporting, and the growing fractures inside the investigation itself. As police and volunteers searched neighborhoods, drainage pipes, vacant lots, and wooded areas across Tampa, the case slowly became defined by uncertainty: conflicting sightings, theories that never fully fit, and a timeline that seemed impossibly small for a child to disappear without a trace.
More than forty years later, Jennifer Marteliz has never been found. And the few minutes between school and home still remain unexplained.

On May 4, 2026, Jason Chen returned to Hamilton County Criminal Court in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking for a new trial in the murder case of Jasmine Pace.
Chen's defense argued that issues from the original trial warranted another chance to make his case, including questions about evidence, the search of Chen's apartment, and the presence of Jasmine's family members in the courtroom. Judge Boyd Patterson denied the motion, stating that the arguments had already been litigated and that the court would rely on the same conclusions previously reached.
For Sara Reid, Juror Number 11 in the original trial, this update is not just a legal development. It is a return to the courtroom, the evidence, the verdict, and the weight of what the jury was asked to decide.
In this bonus episode of SEQUESTERED, Sara walks through the latest ruling, what it means for the conviction and sentence, and why Jasmine Pace remains at the center of this story.
The verdict stands. The sentence remains in place. And Jasmine is not forgotten.

In September of 1981, the Oklahoma State Fair was in full swing; bright lights, crowded walkways, and the kind of place where parents felt safe letting their kids roam free.
That's where 13-year-old friends Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett were last seen.
After being offered what seemed like a harmless job unloading stuffed animals, the girls left the fairgrounds with a man they didn't know. They even called home to tell their parents about the job, and were told to call back later to arrange a ride.
That call never came.
What followed was a nationwide search, a critical witness account that extended their final known movements beyond the fairgrounds, and a suspect investigators believed had done this before.
But despite mounting evidence, a chilling pattern, and years of investigation, the case would collapse in court.
More than four decades later, Charlotte and Cinda have never been found.
And the man many believe responsible was never convicted of their murders.
This is the disappearance of Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett.

In April 1980, fourteen-year-old Laureen Rahn vanished from her home in Manchester, New Hampshire.
There were no signs of a struggle. No witnesses. No clear explanation for how a teenager could disappear from a third-floor apartment in the middle of the night.
In the hours that followed, investigators were left with only a handful of details - a friend asleep inside, an open back door, and a timeline that stopped at the moment Laureen moved from her bed to the couch.
Months later, a series of phone calls would surface, pulling the case thousands of miles away from New Hampshire…and raising questions that have never been answered.
In Episode 1 of SEQUESTERED Season 4, Sara Reid reconstructs the final known hours of Laureen's disappearance; and the quiet, unresolved mystery at the center of a case that remains open more than four decades later.

Missing Persons Cases of the 1980's
The 1980s felt wide open.
Kids rode their bikes for miles without anyone worrying. The rule was simple: be home when the streetlights came on.
It was the decade of roller rinks and mall food courts… Cassette tapes and bedroom posters… Whitney Houston and Bon Jovi blasting from the radio.
Life moved at a different pace. A little unsupervised. A little innocent.
But beneath that nostalgia sits a quieter truth.
Because during those same ordinary nights and routines…people disappeared.
In the 1980s, a missing person could vanish into silence. There were no cell phones to trace, no digital footprints, no nationwide alerts instantly broadcasting a face across the country. When someone went missing, investigators often had little more than witness memories, a few scattered clues, and time slipping away.
And for many families, the answers never came.
This season of SEQUESTERED returns to that era to examine ten haunting missing-person cases from the 1980s - lives interrupted in moments that should have been ordinary.
Each episode revisits the last known movements of someone who vanished, the investigations that followed, and the questions that remain decades later. Through time-capsule storytelling and immersive soundscapes, we step back into the streets, neighborhoods, and moments where these disappearances began.
Because even after all these years, the silence around these cases still echoes.
And sometimes, the smallest detail remembered decades later can change everything.
If someone out there knows what happened…this might be the moment they speak up.
SEQUESTERED Season 4 explores ten disappearances from the 1980s - ten stories that refuse to be forgotten.
 
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