What Happened to Cindy Song? The Penn State Halloween Disappearance
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On Halloween night 2001, 21-year-old Penn State senior Cindy Song climbs the steps of her apartment just before 4 a.m., still in her bunny costume, still smiling. But that's the last time anyone sees her.
When police arrive, her fake eyelashes are on the counter, her phone is there, along with her backpack. Everything initially seems to be where it should be, except for Cindy. And 25 years later, her family is still looking for answers.
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OK, we got some comments I wanted to read from listeners. We're always reading what you guys say. But so this got sent to us that last week someone we found a comment. Someone said, I'm a blue collar worker in an oil refinery. I find myself listening to true crime stories just about every day at work. I definitely don't tell anyone I'm listening.
I came from Hail Billy 2019.
I just love the username. Someone underneath also said, I'm a semi-truck driver and I do the same every day for 10 years now. And then another person said, delivery driver. There's a lot of people, a lot of blue collar workers in the comments being like.
Someone else is like, haha, I feel this comment so hard. I'm a carpenter and definitely don't tell people what I listen to. Why? Why aren't you sharing us?
Because people, well, if you were a carpenter or like you hired someone to help on your house and they were like, yeah, I listen to true crime. Like people just getting like hidden into walls and like killed and stuff. I'd be like, oh, interesting. I don't know how I feel about that.
Well, damn. When you put it that way.
But also share that you listen to the podcast.
Yeah. Share with a friend that is a safe place to tell that you listen.
Yes.
And if you are also a listener where you don't tell people what you're listening to. Put it in the comments. Or if you do share.
What happened the night Cindy Song disappeared and who last saw her?
I did this over on Too Hot Takes. And I was like, where are you listening? Like, what's your job? Because I do want to shadow people on the job. And there's dolphins and penguins that get to hear my voice every week. No way. Yeah, the dolphins really like me. Because they work in a zoo? Uh-huh. Oh, that's great. Yeah, she's a dolphin trainer. Oh, that's... What a fun job. I know. I would love to do that. I get to go shadow her. I get to feed penguins and stuff.
I had some other... Because another... Like, last week or something, we said... that we wanted to do shout out we wanted to shout out people's jobs especially like put me in a lab we've gotten a lot of messages and so people have been reaching out with like really cool jobs and they want us to tag along so we'll sort through them I guess and see if there's anywhere we could go maybe a fall adventure for us after summer slows down for every like evidence locker tour that we take we have to do a palate cleanser of like being with the dolphin trainers I'm saying people with more relaxing jobs maybe yeah
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–3:26
2
What happened the night Cindy Song disappeared and who last saw her?
3:26–25:05
3
Who was Cindy Song and what was her life like before she vanished?
25:05–50:25
4
When and how was Cindy reported missing and how did police initially respond?
50:25–1:02:42