Wade Hack Part 2: The Backup Plan

Wade Hack Part 2: The Backup Plan

From The Vanished Podcast by Audible

September 7, 2026 · 59 min · Episode 538

About this episode

In Part 2 of Wade Hack's story, his loved ones uncover new information about his disappearance by verifying details from his final days in Baltimore.

Last week, in Part 1 of Wade Hack’s story, we followed Wade’s final months in Baltimore and the account of what happened in the days before he disappeared. But as his family and friends began trying to verify that story, they kept running into the same problem: so much of it depended on information they could not independently confirm. In Part 2, we’ll learn what Wade’s loved ones uncovered when they began working from the opposite direction, setting aside the pieces they could not independently verify and focusing instead on the information they could confirm. As they retraced his time in Baltimore, they uncovered inconsistencies surrounding Wade's belongings, new questions about his relationship with Tony, and messages that suggest Wade may have made other plans to get back to North Carolina. What they found did not solve the mystery of Wade’s disappearance, but it did suggest that his final days in Baltimore may have looked very different from the story his loved ones were first given. If you have any information about the disappearance of Wade Hack, please contact the Baltimore County Police Department at (410) 887-2214. Wade’s loved ones have also created an email address…

Topics covered

  • disappearance
  • investigation
  • family
  • relationships
  • Baltimore
  • mystery

Keywords

  • Wade Hack
  • disappearance
  • Baltimore
  • investigation
  • Tony
  • family
  • mystery

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Baltimore County Police Department, [email protected]

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