On June 25, 1983, 18-month-old Vinyette Teague was in the company of her grandmother, extended family and neighbors while her parents took the evening off to go see a movie. It was a warm summer night in Chicago, Illinois, and Vinyette’s grandmother and a neighbor took turns holding the toddler while getting some fresh air in the open air hallways near their apartments. When the phone rang, her grandmother went in to take the call, and the neighbor set Vinyette down on the ground near a table where neighbors gathered playing games. When her grandmother returned, Vinyette was gone. She has never been seen again.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Vinyette Teague, please call the Chicago Police Department at 312-747-5789. You may also call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST or 1-800-843-5678.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
He, prime members, you can listen to the vanished ad free on amazon, music, download the app today the immediately. I start looking for story that we had done it in pc years ago and unfortunately, I couldn't find any. We never covered this woman's story. That's the sad part in all of that we went through archive and archive and managers media managers that what they call they're called. I had them trying to help me. We couldn't find anything on this little girl went missing some thirty six years ago. There's so many people who have a loved one missing, you know and and they they just want some help. They want you to put their picture out there to put
help me find something on the evening of june twenty fifth nineteen. Eighty three eighteen month, old vignette teague was in the company of her grandmother, cousins and many neighbours and friends. While her parents treated themselves too
rare occasion of a night out to see a movie together, a neighbour
and vignettes grandmother, took, turns holding her until her.
Mother went to take a phone call inside and then
labour, sat vignette down near a busy hallway family
and friends milled about ass. She sat near a table where her uncle was playing cards, a short
I passed and the family realised that vignette was no longer sitting near the apartment door or in the hallway.
she was nowhere to be found in the third
six years that have passed since that day, vignette teague has
never been seen again. I'm
aside from wonder this is episode. Two hundred and six of the vanished vignette, tgv story
We finally almost made it this summer and for all of those events, speech weakens weddings and everything in between my go to shop.
destination is always the real real dot com. The real
it the largest and most trusted destination for authenticated luxury resale. You find everything from gucci, prada arrest, ganny stored in so much more offer up to now
two percent off retail, whether you're looking for an outfit for that upcoming wedding, a perfect summers
no we're vacation, ready, beached, hope, you're bound to find exactly what
looking for on the real real dot com without delay,
thousand new arrivals every single day and deals. You won't find anywhere else there truly nothing like the real real for,
easy shopping. Download the app and use code vanished for twenty percent of your next order. That's a real real dot com and code vanished for twenty percent off a check out term supply in nineteen. Eighty three eighteen month, old, vignette
He'd her older brothers, parents and much of the extended family lived in the
I'll demolished Robert taylor homes on the south side of chicago the raw,
taylor homes consisted of a two mile stretch of apartment buildings that
the cargo housing authority had envisioned, would solve the city of chicago's housing problems, often overcrowded
maintained and overrun with violence. The housing pro
ex were not at all with the city had hoped to accomplish. Still
these communities served a purpose
came home to many local families. Looking for an affordable environment in which to raise their children, it was
this development that the teak family was raising their three young boys and baby vignette, while working towards a better future growing up vignettes mother,
have they had always wished for a daughter envy.
It was the child she had hoped and prayed for. We spoke with Kathy
this story and we asked her to tell us what she remembers about her baby girl, what we love it baby. She like people watching carefully buddy
you know she loved.
don't bother, you know she was there.
it, she loved him. You know, but
only eighteen months old. Is that much really didn't get somewhere traveller. You know, but you see below that they have. This was sweet baby
She loved my god, my god bless. You were a baby and she, like pink take was pretty to her
She loved play. What mother de smet
What may sound like unfavourable living conditions to some cathy has only
positive memories of her first years in the housing development where she had moved in the late nineteenth seventys when her oldest child was born. I was wonderful.
because all of my friends, I grew up with we are, with back to the jason, had a baby
leah there. What one another you know, my feeling is that I grew up with you. Now we re close family. We steer stay in touch but more
then they stayed in my building within your came a missing their day. At now, the evening of june, twenty fifth,
Nineteen eighty three was a warm one and vignettes parents
Cathy and albert had decided to take a break for the night, hoping for a reprieve
from the busy shuffle of working as well as parenting food.
young children, as
evening settled in they got ready to leave for a movie. When we spoke to Cathy, she does
ride what she remembers from that night thirty six years ago. Ok, what I love
Indeed, wanna go out a loved one.
You go out, I'm gonna be gaps for key edge.
You know, I need a break. You knowledge, sculpture, movie, you
lack of everyone we wait. We took our charity,
I gave him all that labor with my mother or his mom, and so I bake and make compared to men,
He said, okay, and I told him that guy
but hey what bush put daughters was fun to come down. They get her later and he said okay, and so my mother was there my two sisters, my brother mk,
and it was chiefly neighbours on the galleries. Rabbit shaded projects is the small ports, a step. Of course they called it again.
and it was hot out in every, was without playing cards and needs of the key is out,
I want to say we level
Now, eight thirty there, my mom was written outside the parliament.
The labour members flower was holding up. She lives right next door
as she was holding yeah. Some of that are, and they said my mother got a phone call, but nobody
give me love chair the trademark when the power,
me and my mother won an apartment and air should he was much trust allowed chatting
Why am I to sort of way
my mother, why? I don't love but gave one another?
But my mother, so that left my problem, muck of and in the fifty neighbors and edna slow,
was still home didn't yet, and they say she decided to get up and go with that and to heart dishes.
Take a look at the edge of my mother. She killed
at a highway elaborate chest in ocean
down that our and whatever
The two additional I've been sitting there and my barbara was player to carve at left like cook, with just seven and watch
the one. That's for sure- and I don't know how well she had been missing the one they discovered they ve been yet was not there for everybody,
Looking for that labour guy, this came again it
didn t I love bad. Then he felt that they didn't have on this role.
when they realise that the toddler was missing, vignettes family for
thought that she may have been picked up by another relative
everyone said, they hadn't seen her. So a search-
building was set in motion.
family members, neighbours and other residents had already started going door to door checking the new,
by buildings and looking everywhere they could think for lily.
vignette, but there was no,
trace of the toddler. One of care
he's lingering frustrations over all these years has been that she doesn't know
the details of what transpired that evening- or
the neighbour would have set vignette down in the busy hallway to go into her up
men and wash dishes. When we spoke with her, she
planed. What she believes happened with the neighbour in the sky,
the lay out of the apartment. They say she said
by the hallway and one in five. Oh probably, no bagginess at the hallway shared her down. You know we feel trying to freak out after thirty c sheer. Why would she settled by the hallway? Why did she just take her to my mother? That question has never been
I believe that the main couldn't even after the question, do I blame or hold her. Now
the big man. The same thing could have happened to me, so I can't whole letter here yet been made, but I we just don't know why she never took her to my mother, knowing she was born in her apartment to a dish. We see or find that strange, but it may have
you know so I had to make sure does she know that I didn't hold that an answer that I stayed in touch with her. She settled down by the houthi are on t apartment was by the hallway. It was a door. There was the hallway, but her apartment was
there. The highway do. I guess it always state as regards visible
not on the interval and out of the hall door. When you walk out that door level, this just
the squire landing in them, the stair you just walked out. They enable the stairs writing
to your. Why didn't you just started walking down boy? He saw walking up.
Only know what I'm want to.
Nope on one aberdeen. I love until we get back after a few hours.
way from home. Cathy and Albert returned
It was the early morning, hours of Sunday june, twenty six in the building
still alive with the sounds of residents bustling through the hallways, but something
Wasn't right, as
if he soon realized
wasn't just the weekend buzz of neighbours, and there were
woman yelling her name asking. If she
her baby confused?
The inner husband went up to their apartment, hoping that this was
all. Just simply a misunderstanding
it is going on in my name. I love it
look out a medium term or more
Do you have your baby.
Right now my baby and be a fleet that she'd, like no your babyish measure, a watershed,
maybe one
I got a nightmare. It was like I was in a trance.
and you know what I've got a job
Look at my mother, say said my mother allows face had lived here that it was true, so I went back out the door one from florida,
you're, not really embarrassing. My baby relation.
it now and now
they love a nightmare for thirty species, Kathy
Doesn't remember if the police had already arrived on scene when she and her husband got home or if they came later according to the
port. We received from the chicago police department
police arrived at, the building where vignettes family resided at ten thirty p m and conducted
to the apartments and other air
as in their search for the missing baby. There isn't anything
further in the report that gives us any information about what police found or how
continued their investigation?
when we were researching this story? We looked for news articles from
back when vignette disappeared, hoping to find
more information, but we only found one
leading to a small article published thirteen pages back from the headlines of the chicago tribune. Five days after vignette had vanished.
Police on tuesday continued an intensive search for one and a half year old, vignette t teague who disappeared over the weekend,
continues on quoting the chicago police sergeant as saying that, while he would not speculate that there may have been foul play the choice,
It should have turned up by now,
been no ransom demands and no one has contacted the mother we know can,
the isn't entirely sure who called the police when no one could
vignette and doesn't remember if they were already there when she and her husband arrived home, which she
as vividly recall, are the police interviews that began soon after she and her family were taken to the local police station after they had arrived.
Back home and donate took him and and a camp was there too. We are referring
want me dead. My article we'll have to come in and get me and my girlfriend and take her for Saturday. My awkward been like what
They were fan about my her than in my family, the santa Maria flung back and took vignette and hidden
like the way was treated me how he noticed something I would never do.
they must family they load. All I ever wanted in life was a little girl
you know. Had I wind up three boys could be a god bless me and, with her in the summer,
restored, my life a year and a half later, but take it my daughter, you now for some vague accuse, you can come back and steel
yeah among you, notice
Call me now, and so they vanished away
me, I'm out from each other levels evident that yet again the problem it somebody stole out the old and sound
you know they do they about right character sat down, but I understood this was their job is to make sure that we didn't have any
Do what I do want to miss
Loud thing out was guilty of leaving my baby, but the best person in the world, which was,
now, when you leave your baby, which you know that's the best part, even in the face of long hours, of course,
Turning and what felt like unrelenting accusations. Cathy did her
ass to remember that the police were only there to do their jobs. However,
there's one encounter from the police interviews that Cathy remembers as being particularly cold hearted rademacher
gave me an unwelcome lady calling saw sulfur, but I guess she forced to be the gold.
were far whatever cost you like it. I can't bigger her now.
My lord, I never want to see them.
The clean up of targeted and maybe a gear, you know cause
the other like the way she was.
Play on me and my hope, and against each other, each other. Not every book fear that we be come back and steer our daughter or she will soul for Joe billina, who she sick of this doesn't happen. The black here,
Ma'am, it happens to all color pie, as that doesn't matter if it happened to a black jack of math is Mr Adam said he is funny right now, when you sit near saying that we love back and would kill to have to walk to their fabric came up in their conversation.
One insensitive police officer didn't get to Cathy, though she was able to recover
to us. The many positive experiences and memories she has of the chicago police, as well as the fbi who she taught
almost immediately began working on vignettes case. Then the affair
Nor lay came in twenty four hours later or less than twenty four hours,
Well, I just came in, and you know they just help tomorrow
in my mother and my two serve the my baba mackerel.
Can it be about a level where they want to ask the dead birthday?
treated me with love and respect approaching, like there was better than what the police wars, but at the very proud to have a police and they found out there.
You know my hope that now was really gone and we'd actually back to come back to kill bill. Yet it was easy far better will just of first ourself her missing and we coming home and family now. Did you know at night may ahead, big game. He was a black police officer, but they have fired her.
Case. It was wonderful. He made sure that he will go win case. Whatever me
Kay me, and he was there. You know, gave it to me of freedom
can me over and we going in there
gave all you know, whatever lolita area, it was me and often we became their death before you, charles, take it if he were a lab, believe case manager from the national centre, those too
yeah. You don't want to think about midway tears to my eye because they really took care of me and they should
my baby, what's out there, they left no stone
turn to make me? No, they take care there was they go that the foul talked about and made? Should I checked on me for her birthday? I an abortion.
I guess the cia will go on the law, even their fb, the ag. You know we were called and we were child one dear may I thank bubba was named.
da. I can't even think that his name, but they all return there because it
so allow, even when it may twenty five years has been the case, a glance how they see and make sure that they knew it was me and put out there. Well, I feel in my case at that time there was
to everybody and they didn't know how to deal with David, no ever hamlet, and it was what it was
Maybe they try to did the birthday knew well qualified move they charge deal.
I knew that gm skirt data, James, could even know me you nobody
he had come the chicago from the national centre for missing a sport.
Children need make sure he came near and he my high hand, and he made vignette his baby for five years and then, when he couldn't take it no longer, he gave it to another. Wonderful me, a charm,
it could. As the investigation continued vignettes picture was put on posters, grocery bags, t shirts and just about anything kathy and her sister Dorothy could think of to ensure her photo was posted around the chicago area. When we spoke to Kathy,
Mr Dorothy. She told us about some of their efforts to make sure that they spread the word about the missing toddler, as well as all
different ways. They tried to find information
we look for this baby. We you know
we want to see, I mean.
we want to see cited. We want to see
hi readers, you what is here
grandfather. Now, where were we to fan reindeer,
We base a lot of money. Do I mean by that I mean you know when that happens, just what you go to
there. We got a lot of phone calls
I never needed something people didn't wear a baby's everything
they found a baby found him and got his cabin class embarrassing. They would ask
im down to identify, but none of them was in yet we need na everytime. We went we had so many
the problem, is something tat. You thought there were less than he really was like a fairy. Maybe when south
I have being one of them, told us that she wouldn't
once johnny, they couldn't tell
secondly, where they thought they were
by the police to work on the case, but she said
he will live in orange county, so out
in florida every year, every imagine
go and I will go and
I got a different world now, adjusting looking you not just looking their hope like a sheer napkin, never turn up,
I want to tell you about this game that I recently started playing its called june's journey. Everyone loves.
good family mystery, especially
with, as many twists and turns has june's journey step into the role of june parker and search for heating
clues to uncover the mystery of her sisters. Murder. One thing that I enjoyed about playing june's journey was that an increase
It's mine, teasing puzzles, but also a really interesting story line. I found it a great way.
just relax and play a game that also,
To my mind, engaged wanting to get to each new chapter to find more clues
escape reality and immerse yourself in the world of june parker. Can you crack the case down
june's journey for free. Today on I o s, an android, it's yours.
we're all going with stress, burn out anxiety or have trouble sleeping cerebral can help cerebral
offer. Is the one hundred per cent online personalized mental health care plans that include therapy and medication management you can choose
Your clinician from sir evils that it in train team of experts and attend to all your sessions from the comforting convenience of your own home get started with
for without insurance, and only pay one flap monthly rate and ferment.
Health awareness meant dismay. You can get an exclusive fifty percent off your first month with cerebral dot com, slash wondering that's cerebral dot com,
flash wandering for fifty percent off your first month,
on one search, Cathy and dorothy, had received a tip about a little girl at a local day care who resembled vignette
they immediately jumped into action. Here's what door
if he remembers, you lobby for a our
only a grocery bay. They put things
don't rush in vegas.
The call from a baker centre. One day, as you told us, you think that we need.
They're. So I get in the car me can't be a referendum last and drove it was a supper
were drawn gear should dig here said the lady told us before we came
I work here and I'm about to lose. My job he's got a mom was a hundred percent sure this is this is when yet this is the best
on the girl she day slavery.
tommy was banned birth we get there and the job. You look like you
one of my ears, had been messed up from the person, but you didn't have to share the burden and they played
They played a game. They deal the footprint, listen to make other browser where
or what they were doing and wanted to get that they have to act like they were playing a game without children, but
that money in her there.
Other times at Cathy received information about vignette being alive, Dorothy told
about some of the times that she and Cathy learned of a child that might be the missing toddler. Whilst I could go to this, she was adapted baffled doctors, but basically what I
It found a people gather a really believe. Whoever made the papers that somebody made a birth certificate
that here everything to go with them for they really taking. It was legit.
Fear. Today was raising her and said ass. He played for
and also will not disappear after the fact. The total debt and
and if you could hear, play the piano and was glad to see total
There's a daughter
don't be, a nurse was gone for, nursing, a family and work in a hospital. She talk at the
When the sea a one day say, will you when you see her she's gonna know you and you're gonna know her, but if ever happened yet
police continued their work on vignettes case to Cathy told us at the pump.
He talked to many people in their search, but didn't come up with much in the end. What I cost you a lot of people
couldn, t ass, you know even area near that they say toilet
they seen a man in a year or the year after he got ground. He came back. I fear the lad. I just wanted a chance. He never fallen
nobody saw our notice what they came back and told me
well, it was little of laugh. A lot of people want to be famous figure who wanted to have something to say
sand there are what they are young
black guy in them, and they were convinced me I did, he was my love void- demand
it now me and I did not believe dorothy and
they spent nearly all of their free time, looking for vignette in the ship,
go metropolitan area, but as with so
many families with a missing loved one, all the time and effort spent
looking for vignette, took a toll on Cathy's marriage, the police. In her
use had cast suspicion on cathy and albert separately and according to kathy
albert began to believe the insinuations made by police and giving credit
who, by his family after
several years, their marriage broke up and albert left
another obstacle for cathy to overcome in the search for her daughter.
as he believes that vignette was taken by someone who wanted a child of their own to raise and that she is alive and well unaware that she has missed and loved by a family. She doesn't remember when we talked with her.
Told us how she believe someone could have gotten away with vignette,
what do you know what they probably saw, someone with her
how'd. You know that was my baby, and this was a strange one, whoever it was by her harlan. They she'll tell phrase there were no. She was screaming because she didn't let people
sure she. Never really. You know, want my mother to touch her as she just had her pick of peoples at that age. You know so we loose
this claim in on the cover face and whoever it was he
put it down, so they couldn't see, update tat.
doesn't know of anyone who would have wanted to harm her or who
I've wanted to take vignette, but on a bit
we can night in a crowded residential building, it's impossible to know
everyone who was hanging around the world,
taylor, homes or constructed at sixteen stories, each in long structures in the sun
the building were to elevators and two stairwells, which could have restricted the number of exits from the seventh floor,
We're vignette and her family had been that evening,
being that it was so busy that night that could have made taking a toddler in a crime
much easier as no one would have been able to hear her cries,
and witnesses may not have realised that vignette didn't belong with this person, but kidnapping attack
there would be no easy feet on such a warm weekend evening when
residents were spending their time outside enjoying the company and the weather. How could nowhere
have seen anything Dorothy also believes that vignette was abducted
and told us that, while she doesn't believe the crime was planned, the design.
the building would have lent itself too quickly, leaving with a small child? You know in the project
every badges out on the on on the corridor and they play cards all the time. The current table that is in a card table
see in in order for anybody to go down the stairs. You'd have to say, excuse me about it. You have to get up and let you back
Now the elevator was in a similar way. He could about away
it's just the elevator open and she's got an elevator, but I don't think nobody planned it no come to nobody. It was something that kept it, and I have decided last minute that David
out didn't like there was no advertise, we goin out for iD, you know so, don't know,
last minute thing to do. They did
No, no. I don't think it was clear that have an opportunity
I don't know, but
anyway, to give up hope they call him. They said as long as they don't find her if chances are she's still alive, like a fish lover, eighteen,
though she pilot, or even you know it
they didn't lonely, not long repair over from man. Again, you know, I don't know
but I hope and pray that the man Adam thank you did. I do think he's alive somewhere, but where I haven't the slightest idea,
Had I been she those chicago marcus gap?
allow we hung preachers law behind pitches everywhere we on its adoption
We want a restaurant half journal stores. I maybe just put a purchase everywhere weeks. Bigger
if you haven't been anywhere in chicagoland, oh
we noticed her face was taken away. I think she was taken out
What can be out of a law was sure did some,
take off with vignette that evening, an escape without being seen when we spoke with dorothy. She told us about.
chilling story of an incident they observed. While they were handing out flyers this
serves as a reminder that anything can happen in front of a crowd of people. There will be
when did this happen, tell you
We were a poor hall. I live,
old man well dressed in everything. He was back in.
Only through how,
Hey I'm in his pocket. You gotta be a nervous shaking then move out of pocket,
anyway this young girl came out, she was actually the package
and the old man fell down. Please tell me, as you spare me as you didn't stop.
And the blood all over here, and let me guess you stand then looking them. Let them
mother young lady harmonies green screaming, bear about it with a viable something. But you know we didn't
Let me guess them. Unfair, welcome, moving picture and the only thing
Well, a young man gave the young girl a jacket and told her I'd. Put the jacket on and she put the jacket on and went round the corner
came back when the police came. There was after what happened to this matter.
really a an older man. You know ask him about
the arab world.
people in the pool wow, I couldn't believe it I'm looking like, I don't believe is I had been
picture the mire em up. I was showing into one of the compromise. Were blue wildwood me. I will tell you what,
for he won't. We are driving the falcon amount. The pictures of commerce
What about the near future
down with me, and I told him after the young lady ass, she came back home in this dream, theirs.
It, definitely get back there.
when the matter, what the man after made it is there
if I were she'll want their bit me.
open a jacket, obviously all the blood. I suppose I don't have nothing to do just because I'm going through enough myself, we haven't
I do not want to be involved and may again
and the girl? Now even but I've gotta use
every bad get big mouth yet every bad.
now what happened, but we know about it up as some bad fell vignette and they would matter.
If you listen to the show for a while. You probably know that many of the families that we ve worked with are often ray
victimize during their search efforts. Sadly, Cathy was
exception to this awful practice. She told
about some of the horrible experiences she's had you know they were just
but you know people's I'll say. I've heard your baby was cut up on top of churches, chicken, a green tabby spake somebody-
I call for a whole month to put up a baby on the that probably was a baby, but if I found out later was a baby da
I put the baby die alone. Lab ireland, mom mom, mom, mom mom there, like a globally right, then went out
I have to tell the police you lot. I wouldn't
check into what into alpha at the camp fire me.
a choice I pay for choice to be put on. My pal
but in the real lash there's somebody was doing
that was called me much been kidnapped in there
a big screen and mommy mommy. That charge me alone
and that way it came from shows like what they didn't do anything about their book calls the stop at the date out that way it was coming from, but I feel I shouldn't have to pay to put a trace.
Oh, my father was a you, some bad. It was
Lastly, a baby
screen the mumbling mommy, because cat
wasn't home when vignette vanished her recollect
of events is based on what other family members, neighbours and others told her took place that night, while she and her husband were out seeing a movie and entire
The different story can be found in the small news peace that was published in the chicago tribune, a few days after vignette disappeared, which said that count
He had gone up to another floor to visit with friends. We
be certain about how this misinformation was circulated in
if he may never know which version of vignette story is true, or what
actually happened to her, because no one who was there that evening has come forward to share what they saw heard or remember. Cathy means
in a relationship with her two sisters and brother that we're home on the evening. The her mother was watching vignette when she disappeared and though it seems
the call to keep going without answers. Can
values the time she has with her family members and accepts that everyone has
handled this tragedy differently. We alone
a body. The same
anything right now the day, my folks with them don't talk about it cause. They can't remember that it messed them up they're, not right aid. Not they are never the right. You know from my curve until my brother does, for people life changed that day as well,
my and I have to let them know that don't hold ever give them, so I shall stay close to them, for they will feel that
blame in them and all these years, but they blame them sale and they just can't get over it. So they don't talk about it.
I t s, don't talk about it, they just come and they just fit my boys to every year for her birthday and anniversary. They just be that they make that our special day
wait: I'll do anything you used to do belongs in case, but I'm afraid you know is that
here now, not only to do any better anymore. During
research into the story we made.
Multiple attempts over four months to contact the chicago police department.
the intention of asking for an interview that could possibly answer some of our questions. We
need to learn more about the basic timeline of events, the night that vignette disappeared and to clear up the confusion cos
by the cloud of time. As of this date. No,
it has returned our calls or answered our emails. We also filed
an open records request which was granted, but to date we have only received a too
age supplementary report which stocking
someone who came forward claiming to be vignette. According to the report, the police, emailed cat,
a photo of the young woman to ask if she could be vignette. The report remains
open ended as us
six years ago awaiting cathy's response, those
told us that she remembers receiving this photo and it was not vignette. The preacher did
was talking about. Yes, they did send it to me,
and ah largely what
only then will the marquise went with me. My boy,
Not really wanted her to be sure.
Don't try to make it but love you got my boy. Why do they showed their day was trying to plan a resemblance her? There was no,
then, let's see aware- and I had another woman from their loyalty- and she wanted to be yet to Gaza. Com is heartbreaking when it comes to death,
you're, hoping to guess all open on the english
Indeed, you know people want to give me what you, because they say why
Do you know where she her when you have a fainter year, and I have this flame to their model,
oh mamma, who are is baddies who are family traits of our strong, our a shawl.
we also tried, speaking to the national center for missing and exploited children, about vignette story who asked us to make our
asked via email or email requests.
gone unanswered. We had hoped to speak to a retired detail.
If he was working on vignettes case for years, the women
reached out to his current organisation. We received the following:
thanks for reaching out, but will have to refer you to law enforcement.
our consultants deploy to assist law enforcement and we never discuss individual cases working on visas.
Story- sometimes it felt like everyone except Cathy, had stopped looking for her
It wasn't just law enforcement that wouldn't respond ass, we ran
two dead ends everywhere we looked hoping for one news report or one person
We talk to us about the baby who vanished and whose
identity and story seem to vanish with her ear
in the immediate aftermath of her disappearance, the media
rarely mentioned vignette. In fact, the shock
The tribune mentioned her only once in nineteen eighty three and that short
goal, that I shared with you earlier. That seemed
peace says the following of Cathy. She was unemployed
and unmarried, and she lived in part
at the chicago housing authorities, Robert taylor homes, on the south side, when we spoke to me
the she had a response to those things that were written about her in the one news: peace ever written about vignette at the time of her disappearance, while freedom
one of those vote what they wanted to write to make our story
I even said I would marry boosting our will enable new we would marry. You know, show a dead man,
what nobody wrote about those who fear that what did she know
they make up lash, you know every guy and he made up a whole lot. Alas, what it was ok, eleven,
Nobody and all of that I'm like that was the version of who I was just the cost of living. The five digits because we live in the project
did me. There was none Mary, it didn't mean dead. You know there was a short memory.
I is that I grew up with this. What we want to do, go back and wait that children in the project and be a part of it,
lies in the anybody live in
these same one about the house. You know the mood in there in the seventy
She was sponsored by better help. They can be easy to get caught up in what everyone else needs from you. I never take a moment,
about what you need from yourself that when we spend
over time. Giving it can leave a ceiling burnt out therapy can help develop the skills you.
define more balance in your life? If you been can
during therapy give better help. Try nor struggling
the figure day around your appointments is completely online, says, convenient and suited to your schedule. One of the toughest part about starting therapy is, while funding a therapist better help makes it easy to spell out a brief questionnaire to get match with the license therapist
and switch therapist any time for no additional charge by more balance with better help. Does it better help dot com
wondering crime today to get ten percent off your first month. That's better help: hd lp dot com slush, wondering crime, dick at ten percent of your first month, hairless theirs. I wanna talk to you about etsy at sea is the place for beautifully made items from independent sellers. Etsy sellers have art style and home pieces like rugs and furniture, as well as our where accessories and more made for all budgets and any occasion with spring in full bloom. It's a great time to take advantage of all the unique gardening supplies available on etsy from personalize gardening, aprons and tools to cede starter kits and gorgeous planners that fit any aesthetic without see. You can always be sure, you'll find beautiful and unique pieces. You'll love, neuter etsy use cover new for ten percent off your first purchase. That's code, new maximum discount value of fifty dollars offer ends june thirtieth. Twenty twenty three c terms: it s you dot, com, sash terms for home style and give shop at sea dot com at sea. Has it
In the decade since there has only been sporadic mention of her name in any newspapers nation wide. Just when it sir
that vignette story had been whisper waiting to be given a voice. We found a loan
chicago reporter, Regina Waldrip.
She shares some of the same passions that we do here on the show and often highly
local missing persons, cases that haven't gotten any media attention. We spoke to her.
this story and asked her how she learned about vignette. So to be honest, I have a sister who is in her late fifties and she is homeless, and sometimes we don't know where she is and I try to make maintain contact with her every few weeks I hadn't heard from her, so I reached out to the missing persons group on facebook and it it's called the cook county, missing persons and they were working with me to try to find my sister and while I was looking on their page, I thought that vignette had been missing for more than thirty years and then I reached out to the woman who put the facebook page together and she will like you need to call her mother. She didn't know her anniversary is coming up. You should do a story about that and that's how I got the ball rolling so immediately. I started looking for stories that we had done at mbc years ago and unfortunately, I couldn't find any. We never covered this woman's story. That's the sad part in all of this. We went through archive and archive
at two managers, media managers, that's what they call they're called. I had them trying to help me. We couldn't find anything on this little girl who went missing some thirty six years ago, like us, Regina, was surprised that vignette story hadn't really been covered by the local media and wanted to
sure, this changed right away. She reached out to
yes mam. Cathy hoping to find
a willing voice to tell her about this missing little girl. Again the woman who organized the facebook page. They call her right now, so I called her. She picked up the phone and a second ring and she was like hi. This is kathy and I'm like kathy. My name is Regina waldorf, I'm a reporter with NBC five, and I want to tell the story of your daughter. Who's been missing more than thirty six years and she was like. Oh my goodness, I can't believe you want to want to tell her story inch in. I said yes and like your daughter matters to me- and she was like you know not a day goes by that I don't think about vignette until they come on over today and I said kathy. I can't come today because I was working on another story, but I said as soon as I clueless with my manager we're going to come to your house and we're going to talk to you we'll put this.
back out there. As we approach, you know, the anniversary of the thirty sixth anniversary of her disappearance, Regina did talk with Cathy and she shared some of what cathy is told her and which
he's learned about vignette. She told me detectors kept all of her all the babies clothes. The only thing she has left is one shoe one pink shoe. She said they they kept all of the baby's clothes for evidence and they never returned it over the years that she never got anything returned. You know she she told me. She often wonders what kind of woman have been yet still alive. What kind of woman she grew up to become so that when she wonders you know, as she gets older day by day, she wonders what kind of woman did my daughter grow up to be, and that's the most heartbreaking for me as a mother is to look at another mother, and I don't know, I can't answer that and see that you only have one shoe. You have one tiny shoe that
you're holding onto you know, she's move placed the place and you live in another part. Man at all. She has her mother otters, but once you one shoe regina team, the team she works with with the local NBC affiliate have tried to go farther
tracking down the missing pieces in vignette story
Regina, says it's been a challenge. I would hope that you know some investigator somewhere. You know would pick this case up and want to bring some new attention to it. Kathy thinks she's out there somewhere alive, you know Kathy and her heart of hearts leaves her daughters out there somewhere and has now a you know, an adult. She believes she's out there and I'm going to go with that. I know I'm going to go with what you believe she believes her daughter's still out there a lot he went back to where the robert taylor homes used to be, and now you know the business area where her building leads it's just empty land. We went back there looking and it's just empty land. Now, two thousand and seven they raised that building the buildings. No longer there it's gone, there were firemen out there practicing or doing some water drill. There's no
nothing to ever show you are a nothing native, never showed that there used to be a a project in that area. A large housing complex, nothing just empty field following the story- has inspired regina to work on showcasing other missing persons, cases that need more media attention. She
That's what she feels. A media environment is like for missing people right now and how she's working against the racial. By the same it is. It is
an immediate if you're, a pretty white girl who goes missing. I I think you know there's more attention paid to you. I mean this is a little black girl missing from the project. You know that that is the bias, although right now I'm run into bias right now and there's a white woman missing in brookfield. You know there's a pretty blonde woman missing in brookville and it's just the story. I don't know if it's you know I'm getting pushback even covering that story right now
the gatekeepers just you know the news gatekeepers, that's what I call my idol. I don't know they. They they just are all wrong. These days are on what should be covered and what shouldn't
even with challenges remaining in working to ensure that all missing persons receive some media coverage
regina says that eliminating these obstacles is part of what she feels is important in covering cases in the chicago area. I think several things happen. I I think the way newsrooms work even for me, I was told you know I love covering these cases of people missing in the chicago and cook county alone. There are so many people who are missing it's on facebook, every day that all these people are missing and I just think you've gotta be a voice in the newsroom and you've got to find a way. If you have a level one this and to be able to keep that story out there. I try to put the stories out there and I try to because we have several women missing right now we have a pregnant postal worker,
We have a mother from brookfield in her fifties and I go in and I want to be the voice. I want to be the advocate for these people who are missing, but it's kind of I I'm fighting an uphill battle. I was told last week for the woman in brookfield who's. Fifty three is missing that this becomes and it becomes white noise and people don't want to hear it. And I disagree. I disagree. It's not white noise, everybody has a mother or a loved one. Who may may you know just vanish at some point and you want those stories out there. They pique interest. I mean dateline NBC. They do the stories almost every friday, but people were missing and I think it is of interest, and if we don't tell the story as the media, then how do? How do these people? How do they ever find out what happened to their loved ones? If we don't tell the story, I've been pushing our station to do it. On my own, I've been meeting with detective who work with the cook county sheriff's department. They have
pulled case, was looking at court cases and people went missing, been pushing my station. Let's just every friday, let's focus on a certain persons missing missing. Let's try to you know you bring bring life life to these cases, but again, there's back and- and I think that's a big part of the problem-
so what happened? Vignette teague on that warm summer night, more than thirty six years ago. What we do
oh, is that Cathy and her husband had left vignette in the care of her grandmother while they left to go see a movie. The building
was full of people that evening, including family members, friends and neighbours.
Kathy was told that our mother left vignette in the care of a neighbor. While she went into her apartment to answer the phone after this, the knee
percent vignette down and went to wash dishes. It was after
this time that vignette disappeared. No one has come from
word claiming to have seen someone take her and no one has
that they saw her wandering the authorities
have not released much information about their investigation. We dont
with anyone who was living in that building was ever considered a person of interest or power
Simply someone who was visiting that night had someone been planning to
take her and saw the right moment to make their move when her green.
their got up to answer the phone.
Is she alive and well with another name and identity, but no knowledge of who she actually is.
Where was there's some kind of accident on her parents were gone and someone covered it
because they were afraid of getting in trouble, tat
he's been searching for answers for almost thirty seven years, with the hope remaining that someone who wanted a child took vignette
one day she ll see her daughter and recognize her at the time of her disappearance, vignette
Truly teague was eighteen months old. She was a proxy.
You two feet. Eight inches Tom in wait around twenty seven pounds. She is black
air and brown eyes today,
be thirty years old. If you have
information about the disappearance of vignette teague. Please call the shots
I'll go police department at three one, two, seven, four, seven, five, seven eight nine email
so called national centre for missing and exploited children at one eight hundred the lost
You know every year, I'm going to do this story and until the until the media comes over here, the cathy's no longer here every year, I'm going to do the story, you got it it's on my mammy to maya calendar right now. This and all the other. You know missing people that I've come in contact with their loved ones. I'm going to do their stories until I I bring them some justice, that's my job as a reporter. I would think part of my job when you meet kathy in person, you just you, you feel the sadness from her. You feel at her art. You know her eyes filled with sadness and just not knowing what happened to her daughter. I can't imagine I have a daughter. One of her son sent me an email he wasn't around, but he sent me
email thanking me for doing the story because she said at birth. He didn't know how they would take it. You know me doing the story, but then he sent me an email. Just thanking me on that. He was so appreciative that I had talked to his mother and I was trying to shed new light on them. The
the
it brings us to the end of episode. Two hundred and six I'd like to thank everyone who spoke with us for this story. If you have a missing loved one that you'd like to have featured on the show, there's a case, submission form at the vanished podcast dot com. If you'd like to join in on the discussion, there's a page and a discussion group on facebook, I'm on twitter at the vanish pod and also on instagram, if you enjoy the show subscribe now and leave a five star review on apple podcasts, spotify, stitcher, cashbox or wherever you're listening right now, do you want to help support the show? There are a couple of things that you can do. One way to help the vanished is by supporting our sponsors. You can find
and promo code and episodes. Another way
support. The show is by contributing on patriot where you can get early and ad free episodes join me next time, I'll be covering a case from new york. Thanks for listening the
He pie members, you can listen to the vanished ad.
On amazon, music, download the aims on music up today
lindsey, Graham the host of wonders, podcast american scandal. We bring to life some of the big.
controversies. In: u s. History, presidential lies environmental disasters, corporate fraud. In our new a serious, we look at the kids for cash scandal, a story about corruption inside america's system of juvenile justice,
in northeastern pennsylvania, residents had begun, noticing and alarming trend. Children were being sent away to jail in high numbers,
often for committing only minor offences. The f b I began looking to local judges and when the full picture emerged it made national headlines. The judges were earning,
fourchan carrying out a brazen criminal scheme, one that would shatter the lives of countless children and force a heated debate about punishment and america's criminal. Just
system follow american scandal. Wherever you get your upon guests, you can listen ad free on the amazon, music or wondering app
Transcript generated on 2023-05-20.