211 - The Disappearance of Diana Braungardt

[@hildy208]

I can’t understand how every time something like this happens, some people think it would be FUNNY to prank call the family. It’s one of the sickest things I can think of.

[@Justice4alll320]

Because they are sick heartless aholes.

[@rockstarofredondo]

@@aubreyleonae4108 what about just a crime? What is with all this obsession with putting people into protected classes in which crime is extra superbad if it happens to someone from that group? Just treat crime as crime ffs like a normal person.

[@deevillarreal9475]

Sick there just sick

[@deevillarreal9475]

@@rockstarofredondo absolutely no extra protection is needed, except for other inmates, these fools are Demonic no doubt

[@Scorned405]

A high percentage of people are self centered assholes

[@lexiscosta7087]

so many times i have been in almost empty parking lots by myself coming out of night appointments, or coming from a friends apartment or a store. to think at any point you can be taken from this world by someone who just looks at you and decides in 5 seconds “yup this is the one” .. is truly frightening.

[@nozoto]

Parking lots are among the favorite hunting grounds of killers. They only need a basic abduction kit to carry on their agenda (handcuffs, some gag and binoculars to observe the back and forth from afar before leaping into action). Somebody extra familiar with the place even know the dead angles where no camera will film them, if there are any. If more parking lots had dedicated patrolling security agents telling asswipes on stakeout to f*** off, I am certain a dramatic proportion of kidnaping would be thwarted. Unfortunately, making money out of peons like us is more important than crime prevention 😒

[@The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door]

@@nozoto lol, how do you know what is in an abduction kit? I’m sure most people wouldn’t know what you’d need to abduct someone.

[@nozoto]

@@The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door Well duh, I kidnapped several without getting caught, that's how I know. Obviously! Gotta leave you, somebody is calling me on the room under the stairs lol

[@The_Crusty_Old_Hag_Next_Door]

@@nozoto yeah you better go give them some food & water!

[@pharris6875]

Ikr. I'm from Mo. Same age range and worked at a Venture store back then. 😳

[@kiki1573]

Angela Hammond Deborah Poe Kelly Bergh Dove Sarah McDiaramid Robin Graham Debahni Escobar Dorothy Jane Scott Anita Cobby Elin Krantz To name a few..... Ladies, if you can help it PLEASE DO NOT find yourself alone in the dark, lonely, dangerous streets at night. If you must be outdoors, try to have a chaperone- a trusted friend, or relative accompany you. At the bare minimum, have a security guard walk you to your car. And for Pete sake, never go to and/or leave a party alone at night. ❤️

[@commancheheart420]

Never leave your friend alone at a bar or let them leave with strangers.

[@kiki1573]

@@commancheheart420 My point EXACTLY.💯

[@sarah_loves_mittens]

I see what you're saying but I refuse to live my life in fear. I conceal and carry. I'm aware of my surroundings. I've done all the things that you have said not to do and I'm still here. I'm not saying I did all of these things voluntarily some were out of necessity but none the less if you're aware of your surroundings there's other steps you can take to ensure your safety rather than power in a corner out of fear or insist on having man escort you because you're incapable of defending yourself. Aware of your surroundings beware of the situation surrounding you. These are simple steps to ensure your safety without having to live in fear. Also Angie Hammond I believe she was killed by the boyfriend. It makes a logical sense. Not to mention he must know nothing about cars because the BS story he gave about his car's transmission is just that, a BS story. I still to this day and shocked that he has not been brought to Justice. I do not believe for one second she was alone in a parking lot at night on a payphone.

[@kiki1573]

@Crazy Sarah in the trailerhood You made VERY GREAT points. I'm with you. You shouldn't live your life in fear, but you gotta be cautious sometimes. Carrying and concealing is being smart. You're not just a "helpless sitting duck" I was actually going to write that in, but my comment is already lengthy as is. You opened my eyes to the Angela Hammond case. You could be right. Her pregnancy may have been a motive for him. It's happened before. Plus if a man really loves his woman, he has a car, he's going to pick her up. You'd think he would much rather see her, than to have her talking on a payphone, at night while he's comfortably laying on his couch. Especially if he lives close by.

[@stephvannorman9826]

The Angela Hammond case is so scary. She was alone at about almost midnight using a payphone talking to her fiance. I wish she would've gone to his house and she was all alone at that time outside in the dark. So scary

[@shootfirst2097]

No punishment of a perpetrator and not even knowing what happened to your loved one has to be the worst thing to have to endure (other than being the victim, of course)

[@vadaharris6495]

I agree. Those poor parents! I think they both aged quickly and died early, before they would have, if this had not happened to their daughter!

[@mollygibson4402]

It is so utterly tragic that the girl who was given a chance in life by being adopted into a loving home was robbed of that chance by the unknown something that so cruelly wiped her off of the face of the Earth.

[@shootfirst2097]

How many young women are abused and possibly TARGETED as a result of the false promises (and subversion) of the "modeling industry"?

[@AskAlex1999]

Yes, that is a big red flag!

[@LauraCroftt]

Poor Diana and her family! Thanks for the upload, I like when you set the scene at the beginning, gets the right atmosphere.

[@whitedragoness23]

Her family loved her so much and they still love her

[@meh_lady]

I grew up around there and remember this case very well. It was all people talked about for a long while. We shopped at that Venture store all the time. Festus/Crystal City was the main shopping area for many small towns. After this happened the parking lot felt so eerie at night. I think of Diana every time I pass by it as I still have folks in the area.

[@Itsabeautifulday3201]

I was 5 when it happened we still talk about it. My Dad NEVER let my Mom go shop in festus alone because of it. It used to be such a small town it’s crazy how something like this could happen and never be solved. I always wondered if the person that took her lived/lives in town.

[@amberlin.88]

I always get so excited to see you've uploaded a video! Thank you for giving light to another unfortunate case!

[@cosmicshy637]

That poor Daddy talking about the phone call from a girl. 😢 😭 💔

[@CarlasCorner62]

I live close to there now and went to that little mall and the Venture store constantly...I remember this like it was yesterday and I believe it was Jessie Rush and his cohorts...

[@rockstarofredondo]

I had to look them up and I must agree. Seems way too similar to the other murders he may be connected to and the one he has been convicted of.

[@sarah_loves_mittens]

I live very close as well. Right down 67. Prior to living out here I worked for 2 years in twin City plaza. (next to the Pizza Hut, before it moved.) I'm sure you've heard the same local gossip that I have, I agree with you about Rush. Of all the theories that have been put out there and all the suspects that have had fingers pointed at them he definitely is the one that makes the most logical since. So you lived out here when it happened right? Cuz I transferred into Jeffco in the early 2000s from SoCo and have lived in Festus for about a decade now. But I'm curious as to what 61/67 was like right they're in front of twin City plaza back then. My cousins lived out this way so I know as a kid I traveled it but I just can't remember. I'm sure they expanded you know added lanes and what not but every week when I get off work on Saturday I drive by there and it's usually about 11 at night and its eerily quiet sometimes and there's not a lot of traffic. So of course I'm thinking okay it was like deserted the night she was abducted but then I remember that 55 wasn't built all the waysdown to bloomsdale then, was it? I feel like 61/67 there was the main highway if you were going south. Which if that's the case then there would have been at least some traffic that night, right? Or maybe not. I don't know I just feel like the development of interstate 55 and people's accessibility to his somehow plays into this case. I mean you're probably doesn't but it's a hunch I can't let go of. So since you were in the area at that time and currently you know what it was like then and now. like what's your take on all of that what was the traffic like? And also I know a few years later there was that scandal, for lack of better words, with the police chief of Festus in the deputy and shooting and killing and good ol boy cops so on so forth when she went missing did that good old boy police mentality that existed during the scandal was that like existing then? Sorry about all the questions. But this is one of the three local cases that I think about so often. the other two, there's some evidence with one and the other one though it wasn't legally solved we all know Bryan Westfall killed Amanda. But this one left nothing nothing not even enough to substantiate the most logical of theories. I think about it often and I have so many questions that I'm sure everyone else has and unfortunately will probably never be answered

[@ravishingrickrude3721]

Wouldn't Rush have been only 11 or 12 years old in 1987?

[@jksngtrs90]

@@ravishingrickrude3721yeah and he was down near Springfield and nowhere near festus

[@Itsabeautifulday3201]

Right down the sidewalk from this store was another store called peables my friend and I were 12 and 13 (I’m 41 now) and getting ready to walk into the store when a man tried to get us to leave with him. He was very persistent that we show him how to get to Kmart so he could return something (as he showed us a box that was obviously empty) we were terrified and stood there frozen. We kept telling him the store is right down the sidewalk and he kept telling us he needed us to show him,until I finally stopped being scared and yelled at him we’re not going anywhere with you! There are adults all around us but you keep asking us kids!? He panicked and left in a hurry. THEN the adults that were watching from inside the store came out and asked if we were ok. I always wondered if he had something to do with her disappearing. It scared us so much because we had always been told about Dianne and how she’s never been found. I wish that we would have reported it to the police but we were kids and didn’t even think about doing that. I’m pretty sure we never told her or my parents because we were scared they wouldn’t let us walk to the stores from her house anymore.

[@AskAlex1999]

The mention that she had just enrolled in modeling classes is a red flag to me. Prayers this case is solved.

[@BryanClarkFerguson-xc6uc]

She sat in front of me in school and one day wasnt there. We never had councilng like kids today but it was such a loss of innocence for our small town. Her dad was also our minister in Festus. We deserve answers and closer.

[@carlwheezer1030]

Wish KZbin actually gave me notifications!

[@stevenjennings233]

Please bring back the eerie background music. The ambience of the music makes the videos so much more interesting

[@CL-we8tn]

Thank you so much for the video

[@FreshNettles]

Just finished watching Robert baron and this popped up..Perfect timing..

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Good morning Trace Evidence 🧾🧾 and thanks for the video 📸☺️.

[@TechReviews2010]

Very sad and I do hope she gets found. What about the smart police at the time stating that Diana had run away. Her car is parked and locked but she's ran away omg what happened to the intelligence of cops back then.

[@MrBTBusch]

They're not much better now, Are they?

[@Sophina_]

Nothing to do with “back then” - it’s still protocol to ignore missing persons until they turn up dead (and sometimes even then)

[@rockstarofredondo]

When 99% of filed missing persons return alive and well, it tends to cause a bias. It would happen to you too if you saw it everyday, especially when the parents tell you she got mad and stayed with a friend once.

[@brenmanock]

No lack of monsters in this world

[@deevillarreal9475]

I promise people need to take call pics of lic plates, cars people anything, this can make a huge difference in these cases. My heart breaks for these young ones, be detectives it's worth it. No matter what. Share asap. Don't think twice. Just do it.

[@gwacemarie8897]

I like it when you don't use any swear words, not necessary. You are already a great story teller. 😊

[@ozzieone67]

Could she be victim number 5? She live 40 minute drive from St. Louis she went missing 4 years before his first victim could this be possibility

[@teenmomAT14toRN]

Thank you

[@aubreyleonae4108]

I'll have finish later to see if there was any connection to modeling class? Have to take small bits too triggering

[@tessfabled4115]

Yeah that gave me thoughts of Christopher Wilder and the like..

[@AndreNDP]

I heard the mention of the theory of Diana going to look for her birth parents, and agree that that's of minimal likelihood. But what about the parents trying to find Diana?

[@updownstate]

I tell my sister that when the parking lot at her job empties out at 5:00 I want her to go out too and put her car at the building entrance, backed in so she can just hop in and lock the door and start driving. She says she does it but I don't believe it. Also if she comes out late and has a flat tire to go straight back in the building and call 911 and AAA.

[@8blade8]

No sign of struggle in the parking lot. No purse, car keys, shoes left behind. Maybe she never left the store. The perp could have signed her out. Check timecard for prints . coworker?

[@Scorned405]

Why would she voluntarily walk out her job with someone she does not know?? Right in the middle of her shift??

[@donnablack6280]

I assume janitors and security guards were investigated?

[@paulablevins6357]

Many businesses hire security guards & janitors without doing basic background checks. Better off doing the buddy system with a co-worker....if you can trust them!

[@jerrymarbury9365]

Add footlockers to the list of item to leave the hell alone along with 55gallon drums,backpacks ,luggage,rolled up carpets and of course random plastic garbage bags.

[@shark_kisses5153]

I don’t understand when ppl find any of the above in weird places like the woods, side of the highway, lakes…and then decide to open them! Sometimes they even smell terrible and they open them! No way! I would call the authorities if I got a really strange vibe/scent from these things, but never ever would I look inside. You just know it’s going to be a dead baby or someone’s torso. 😮

[@deannekliene2673]

I had a friend who was murdered in st.louis and dumped in Jefferson county, her killer was suspected of killing someone else in festus back in 80s....his name was jimmie lee mills....interestingly i was in same class in school with Nathan Danny wWilliams....

[@tessaducek5601]

CrimeCon in Florida? I hope everyone makes it back alive! 😬 While many don't like the fact CCTV is almost everywhere now. It definitely has become a valuable tool for many situations. It was not needed so much thirty years ago. But it is too bad. It could possibly have helped with her disappearance. Not knowing would be excruciating for family . Very heartbreaking.

[@TheBlackdog8]

It was needed more 30 years ago

[@waypay1]

St Francois county is pronounced St Francis. No idea why, but Missouri likes to mispronounce French names. 😂 I knew about the woman found deceased at S Bar F Scout Ranch, but it was sad hearing that this family thought she was theirs. Her murder was solved by her pants buttons. It's a sad, interesting story and it's on KZbin. My son goes to Scout camp there, and everyone still talks about that tragedy today.

[@sarah_loves_mittens]

My church camp was down tbe road from s bar f.

[@Captain_Leadbottom]

Not true. Everyone else pronounces it wrong...

[@meh_lady]

It’s the truth, we do. I have family in St Francois county and it’s pronounced “Francis” by everyone. Same with Gravois Rd and hundreds of other French names. For our area to be so French nobody pronounces any of it correctly! Okay, they do say Bonne Terre right. 😂

[@guitarpop]

Hmm strange, one newspaper article you showed states her age as 19, another 18.

[@Scorned405]

I hate to say it but it’s very very small chance that she is still alive. She would not just voluntarily disappear and not resurface. She’s probably dead

[@patrickkennedy8706]

The time clock “sprung to life”? A little much don’t you think?

[@Somegirl811]

Leaning toward Marvin. Wish the mall had cameras

[@wildgr33n]

you keep saying twin cities mall and i keep thinking this is in the twin cities/MN lol (minneapolis/st paul)

[@MusicLeeSarah]

Is called twin City plaza because Crystal City is in essence a city-within-a-city. That City being Festus. (Back in the day before the area built-up twin City plaza was the main retail shop mini mall and it is located in Crystal City but right there on the line of Festus.) They originally had been one city, Tanglefoot. At some point they separated and became their own entities. Its kinda Crazy, like our Walmart, half is in Crystal City and half is in Festus. If someone shopping list from there it depends on which exit they go out of as to which Police department is going to respond. Lol

[@meh_lady]

@@MusicLeeSarahI was going to mention the split city Walmart! One door has Festus Tigers, the other CC Hornets. Kinda cute. Like you said I’ve always heard that it depends on which door a shoplifter leaves as to which municipality handles it, so bizarre!

[@Itsabeautifulday3201]

@@MusicLeeSarahpay attention to your receipts. I can’t remember if it’s Festus or the Crystal city side but one of them the taxes are higher, depending on which side you check out on lol I’m pretty sure the food side is the highest side.

[@sadielevens1144]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

Wait, so this girl was from Festus and they never even investigated Brett Keane?

[@andreawaugh192]

Why do you think he could be a suspect? Just curious. I heard he a wife beater but did he know her or have opportunity

[@elizabethm6657]

Where's the creepy piano music in your intro?

[@Rubycon99]

Are you talking about the eerie music that used to play throughout the episode? He stopped using it a long time ago. I sorta miss it myself.

[@rockstarofredondo]

@@Rubycon99 I was listening to the old episodes and they sound so much better because of the subtle background music.

[@pennybyington3638]

It's actually pronounced St. Francis. It's just the French spelling

[@danodime3560]

I watched on another KZbin video that they thought it was her ex boyfriend that did it because the witness said that she looked at her like she new the person and made a face at her like cringe face and the boyfriends brother or friend had the exact same car even down to the dent or damage on the front side also she was talking to the guy for a little bit before she got in

[@TheGemini1907]

Spirit says Glacken

[@e.e.harrison1357]

Check the modeling agency

[@missy88]

There’s a twilight zone episode and the it’s a guy listening to a crime podcast. Pretty sure they used you as an idea because the person they used sounds exactly like yours.

[@annabellelee4535]

Twilight Zone is back? Where does it show? I love Twilight Zone.

[@missy88]

@@annabellelee4535 I bought 2 season on KZbin I think it was released in 2020

[@annabellelee4535]

@@missy88 I'll have to look for it. I thought the last run was in the late 90s. Thank you!

[@missy88]

@@annabellelee4535 no they revamped it in 2019 or 2020 and made two seasons waiting to see if they make anymore. You’re welcome!

[@MrStarfalleyes]

😴😴😴😴

[@HiFiAwardTour]

I’m just gonna leave some feedback. I don’t find 40 year old cold cases compelling, like this one. No witnesses, no evidence, and no credible suspects. No charges filed against anyone and no solid leads. This is an hour and a half telling me a girl got kidnapped 40 years ago and the police have no clue who it was or what actually happened. I literally just gave the story in one sentence. Have a good evening.

[@tracybrannan8326]

Her story deserves to be told.. she was a human being that was loved and is missed by her people. How dare you.. go find another podcast then and take your disrespect with you.

[@HiFiAwardTour]

@@tracybrannan8326 I was talking about the nature of the story not the person. And I will.

[@rockstarofredondo]

@@tracybrannan8326 Greta? Is that you?

[@Captain_Leadbottom]

Disagree

[@dive_bomb3r]

Every story could be summed up this way, because there's nothing new under the sun.

[@cz8024]

Please please stop with the flowery language…..it isn’t a novel…..it’s a true crime story…..we just want the facts….don’t need to know about the cascading lights and such….just the facts….the flowery language makes this almost unlistenable….until you get to just the facts….then it gets better. Where you start with her bio….was born on…..that is where you should start….the flowery stuff before that is unnecessary……..the building’s edifice…..really? That doesn’t make the story any better.

[@dadtronic]

You want just to facts... go research it yourself.

[@steveramsey6562]

Could do without the mood setting at the beginning of the story, a quick description of the weather that day would suffice.

[@joe-9256]

I hope this girl ran away from the prison life she had at home, after she saw a glimpse of freedom at her modeling class. Her dad sounds like the kind of horrible guy that takes pleasure in crushing a person's soul in the name of God damn Jesus. Run fast, run long if you are 'preyed' on lol by these serial Bible thumpers.

[@Itsabeautifulday3201]

What a horrible thing to say. Her family was crushed. Don’t take your hatred for God on innocent people that are missing their child.

[@batchagaloopytv5816]

for real if you think calling the dad of a missing daughter and saying "daddy" is a joke?? you need to be put on a list ,and im for dark humor uncensored but this is vile