About this episode

The episode discusses the mysterious disappearance of 15-year-old Tawnya Dawn Knight in 1996 and the tragic answers that followed.

When 15-year-old Tawnya first vanished into thin air on a cold winter’s night in 1996, law enforcement considered her a runaway, despite her family believing otherwise. Months later, answers did come… tragic ones… along with plenty of questions about some of Tawnya’s friends and the circumstances of what happened to her that night.

Topics covered

• disappearance
• true crime
• investigation
• family
• friendship
• mystery

Keywords

• Tawnya Dawn Knight
• disappearance
• Kansas
• 1996
• true crime
• investigation
• runaway
• mystery

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Kansas

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