“A well-researched and ethically sound addition to the true crime genre”
– The Guardian

“Pandora Sykes’ new podcast is an unexpected – but gripping – listen”
– Stylist

“A true crime show with a difference.”
– Sunday Times Culture

This week the second series of ‘The Missing’ concludes with its tenth episode, available now across all podcast streaming platforms – listen here.

Series one and two of ‘The Missing’ have explored a wide range of cases, featuring victims with both high-profile and lesser known stories. In the series two finale, the podcast explores why certain cases may attract more attention than others, and asks what can be done by society to tackle this inequality.

In today’s episode, music manager, writer and activist Yasmin Lajoie, who is campaigning to raise awareness of familial abduction, joins the podcast. Having herself been the victim of an attempted kidnapping by her father, she addresses the lack of public awareness about the issue, and the imbalance of cases affecting children from ethnic minority communities.

Created in collaboration with UK charity Missing People and community interest group Locate International, the first series of ‘The Missing’ entered the UK podcasting charts at Number One in true-crime and Number Two on the Apple UK podcast chart, receiving widespread critical acclaim from the likes of Harper’s Bazaar, The Observer, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mirror and Stylist. As a result of awareness raised by the podcast, Goldsmith’s University has now assigned a specialist team to investigate the case of missing mother Lana Purcell, and a former police detective is currently working with the police to explore a viable theory put forward by listeners in the case of Suzy Lamplugh.

Previous episodes in this series have explored the cases of Georgina Gharsallah, Damien Nettles, Sanjiv Kundi, Karen Milsom, Allan Bryant, Terry McSpadden, Chad Gibson, Natalie Putt and an unidentified body known only as ‘Giorgios’. Series One examined the cases of Charles Hovarth-Allan, Katrice Lee, Bernadette Cooper, Andrew Gosden, Fatima Mohamed-Ali, Suzy Lamplugh, Lana Purcell, Anne Simpson, Tony Haigh and Esra Uryun. Listen to previous episodes here.

‘The Missing’ is a Podimo podcast series produced by What’s The Story Sounds and made in association with specialists Locate International and Missing People.

Subscribe to ‘The Missing’ here - https://www.themissingpodcast.org/.