169 episodes
Up and Vanished Tenderfoot TV
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- True Crime
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4.5 • 61K Ratings
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Season 4 returns 8/8. Host Payne Lindsey heads to the edge of the arctic circle to investigate two mysterious disappearances from Nome, Alaska. Up and Vanished investigates mysterious cold case disappearances with each new season of the hit true crime franchise. Season 1: The case of missing South Georgia teacher, Tara Grinstead, led to two arrests. Season 2: The disappearance of Kristal Reisinger, a young mother who disappeared from a remote Colorado mountain town. Season 3: The North West Montana disappearance of Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, an indigenous woman who went missing from the Blackfeet Nation Indian Reservation. Season 4: The case of missing Alaska Native, Florence Okpealuk and missing 36-year-old Joseph Balderas.
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S4E1: No Place Like Nome
Often Nome, Alaska is claimed to be settled by gold miners, but Alaska Natives have been in the sub-arctic area for thousands of years. It is also unfortunately the site of a disproportionately high number of missing Indigenous and Native Alaskan women. When Up and Vanished host, Payne Lindsey, receives a tip from one of his producers about Florence Okpealuk, an Alaskan native who went missing in 2020, he is drawn to the mystery of her disappearance. As Payne begins his research, he finds an email from Okpeluk's family asking him to cover her case, and is compelled to continue. He will soon learn the difficulty of covering a case in the Land of the Midnight Sun as he begins his journey northward to Nome.
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S4E2: Man On West Beach
Florence Okpealuk is not the first Alaska Native to go missing from Nome. Seventeen years prior, Sonya Ivanoff was reported missing by her roommates and was found murdered. The crime has forever left a mark on the relationship between the community and the local police department. Payne arrives in Nome and learns that not much has changed since Ivanoff's tragic end. He connects with journalist and Alaska Native, Alice Qannik Glenn, who shares how the story inspired her journalism and changed the way she viewed the world.
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S4E3: Oregon Jon
Talking with locals in Nome, Payne begins to make some progress in finding out who one of the last people to have seen Florence alive is. New accounts of interactions with the miner living on West Beach have led to the uncovering of a man with a nickname that a lot of the town have heard about.
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S4E4: Fact or Rumor?
A tip received from a local Nomite sends Payne down the rabbit hole to uncover the sender of texts which claim to know exactly what happened to Florence Okpealuk in a tent on West Beach.
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S4E5: Finding Jon
Payne and his producers beginning planning the best way to get closer to Oregon Jon, with internet sleuthing they eventually discover a trail to go down uncovering hints at how to get close enough to talk to him.
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S4E6: Two Truths and a Lie
After messaging him from a fake Facebook account, Payne sets up to meet with the person he wants to talk with the most; Oregon Jon. Deciding to bring along a few of his producers, Payne sets up as many recording devices around the bar as he can in order to covertly capture the full encounter. Can Payne keep up the ruse or will Oregon Jon catch on?
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Customer Reviews
Tenderfoot is a master of podcasts
I first started hearing Dennis Cooper then Payne Lindsay and they make the perfect podcasts. Their voices their methods and their way of putting you right there in the room to draw you in are amazing. It is the easiest podcast to listen to in any environment. Their dedicated work is tremendous and driven. I’ve met Dennis before and told him this exactly and let him know how much they have changed my life. I’ve become a Victims Advocate and Tenderfoot team had a huge part of this. Thank you.
Alaska has had a lot of serial killers
Thank you for focusing on an Alaska case, including a missing indigenous woman. I live and work in AK and was in Nome last month. I also work with law enforcement and it’s been relayed to me by someone who worked in Nome at that time that Nome had a serial killer operating in the community.
Payne does excellent work and I have enjoyed this podcast. I will just say this one small thing - Nome is a direct flight on an Alaska Airlines a jet from Anchorage. Easy to get to compared to other locations in AK.
Excellent listen
I was incredibly excited to finally listen to season 3, but I’m a binge listener so it took all my strength to wait for the completion. The first season was one of my initial introductions to the true crime world, I appreciate his ability to deliver clear information and present the story with deep respect for the victims and their families. I also absolutely ADORE his relationship with his Grandma. It’s like a sweet hooray separating the darkness. Thanks, Payne!