MISSING: Sage Smith

In May 2023, Lakesha Thompson’s entire family was upended by a single bullet that took their mother away from them forever. From the beginning, who pulled the trigger has been the question at the forefront of her family’s mind. Investigators determined pretty quickly that it was ...  Show more

In 2019, we covered the Sodder children, five siblings who vanished after their family’s home burned down on Christmas morning in 1945. Officials said they died in the fire, but no bodies were ever found. And now, with new information from a family descendant, we’re taking anothe ...  Show more

Sage Smith was a transgender teen who went missing one day in 2012, and due to her being LGBTQ and a person of color, didn’t receive the same media attention as other missing teens in the area. And because of this, her case wasn’t escalated or taken as seriously as it should have ...  Show more

She was smart, cautious, and afraid of strangers. So why did 9-year-old Asha Degree leave her North Carolina home in the middle of the night and vanish forever? Now, 25 years later, Morgan and Kaelyn revisit the key evidence: the missing backpack, a mysterious green car, and a DN ...  Show more

A woman does not return home and, despite pleas from her family, police insist on treating it as a routine missing person's case.To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hoste ...  Show more

When a teenage trafficking victim agrees to testify against her traffickers in criminal court, she goes missing before the case makes it to trial. The disappearance and probable murder of a vulnerable child shed light on the harsh realities of hidden in plain sight sex traffickin ...  Show more