Vanished In The Driveway: Misty Dawn Faulkner

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A quiet driveway is supposed to be the end of the day. Park. Breathe. Go inside. Safe.

That is why this case won’t let go.

Misty Dawn Faulkner makes it home to rural Oklahoma after a shift. There’s a Walmart run in the mix. There’s a phone call, maybe finished from the car. And then the part that turns your stomach: she’s gone. No obvious struggle. No screaming heard. Her purse and phone are left behind. The vehicle is locked. The groceries are still there. It looks normal until you realize it absolutely is not.

In this episode of Things I Want To Know, we walk the timeline as clean as we can. What’s confirmed. What’s reported. What’s repeated so often online that people start calling it “truth.” We talk about allegations of abuse in the background and why secondhand claims can be both important and dangerous at the same time. We dig into the investigative pieces that matter: multiple cadaver dogs alerting on the same pond, the pond being drained, and nothing recovered. Ground-penetrating radar showing minor anomalies, but no confirmed burial. This is the kind of case where every lead creates two more shadows, especially in an area where tips can cross state lines fast and clarity can die of paperwork.

Then we zoom out, because the audience deserves perspective. Most missing person reports do get cleared. A lot of “missing” is miscommunication, family conflict, paperwork lag, runaway dynamics, addiction cycles, and people choosing to disappear for reasons that are ugly but not criminal. Abductions are real. Violence is real. But the public belief that it happens constantly to everyone, everywhere, is not supported by how the numbers usually shake out. That doesn’t make this case safer. It makes it sharper. Because when a scene is clean and the essentials are left behind, that’s when you have to stop guessing and start asking better questions.

Two children grew up without their mother. A community is left with a locked car, untouched groceries, and a timeline that still doesn’t add up. If you have information, share it with law enforcement. If you’ve got a theory, bring it to us as a theory, not a verdict.

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