The Last Trip

• 105: Death Not Yet Collaboration - Colleen Stan: Northern California

  This past summer I had the opportunity to join some amazing podcaster's for the Death Not Yet Series. This episode of Survivor || COLLEEN STAN || The Last Trip for Death Not Yet first aired on July 4th. This is a Podcaster’s Give Back collaboration. All podcasters have donated their time and research to help advocate for victims of domestic violence. And we are raising money to give back to non profits which are standing with survivors. To donate, please visit buymeacoffee.com/youshouldbehere. In this episode, we’re traveling back to 1977 - to a quiet California highway where 20 year old Colleen Stan made a simple, trusting choice to hitch a ride. What followed was a seven-year ordeal so disturbing, it shocked investigators, psychologists, and the public alike. She was held captive in a coffin-like box. Controlled, isolated, manipulated.  But this isn’t just the story of what was done to her - it’s about what she did next. This is a Fire Eyes Media, LLC production www.fireeyesmedia.com Do you have a story to share? Send your email to [email protected] We're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastTripPodcast Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter Sources: https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/colleen-stan-the-girl-in-the-box https://people.com/crime/girl-in-the-box-how-janice-hooker-helped-colleen-stan-escape/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/girl-in-the-box-colleen-stan https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/colleen-stan-kidnapping-told-in-snapped-notorious-girl-in-the-box https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exclusive-woman-imprisoned-in-coffin-for-7-years-has-special-message-for-jaycee-dugard/ https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/seven-years-of-torture-a-survivors-story/291-316456285 https://www.naijanews.com/buzz/people/colleen-stan-kidnapping-everything-you-need-to-know/ https://people.com/where-is-colleen-stan-now-girl-in-the-box-kidnapping-8648943 https://barrieshelter.com/how-to-stay-safe/ https://celebnowthen.com/what-is-colleen-stan-doing-now/ https://medium.com/crimebeat/the-brainwashing-and-torture-of-colleen-stan-a-kidnapping-survivor-ec6e2410503a https://medium.com/%40lisariggio1994/surviving-abduction-colleen-stan-9f9b5261d919 https://murderintheblack.com/colleen-stan-the-girl-in-the-box.html

  --------  

  38:14

  --------

  38:14
• 104: Ani Ashekian: Hong Kong

  In November 2008, 30-year-old Ani Ashekian landed in Hong Kong—jet-lagged, excited, and ready for her next adventure. She sent a quick birthday text to her niece, withdrew cash from an ATM… and then vanished without a trace. No calls. No bank activity. No confirmed sightings.  Just a few seconds of CCTV showing Ani standing calmly in a crowded terminal—moments before she disappeared into a city of seven million people. Was she the victim of a robbery, a scam, or something far darker? Or did Ani choose to disappear on her own terms? Her journal, later discovered in Canada, hinted at secret plans—but also a growing undercurrent of fear. Listen as we dive into Hong Kong, the case of Ani Ashekian, and how to stay alive on vacation. Do you have a story to share? Send your email to [email protected] We're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastTripPodcast Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter Sources: https://www.facebook.com/groups/54077259736/ https://truecrimediva.com/ani-ashekian/ https://websleuths.com/threads/china-ani-ashekian-31-hong-kong-11-nov-2008-canadian-tourist.104205/ https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1065968/ani-ashekians-journal-offers-new-clues-after-four-years-silence https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-woman-feared-missing-in-china-1.714555 https://www.toronto.com/news/search-continues-for-missing-toronto-woman-in-hong-kong/article_8b549fea-1aa7-5482-b643-1d303e5ada6f.html https://web.archive.org/web/20151105180831/http://www.findani.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/18b64d1/where_is_ani_ashekian/ https://time.com/archive/6948538/u-s-crime-writer-tackles-a-real-hong-kong-cold-case/ https://windsorstar.com/news/sister-to-pick-up-search-in-china

  --------  

  39:18

  --------

  39:18
• 103: John Allen Chau

  In November 2018, a young man vanished into the gray sea night, stepping across the forbidden line that separated two worlds.  His name was John Allen Chau - twenty-six years old, an American with a quiet resolve, a missionary’s conviction burning in his chest. He sailed toward North Sentinel Island - a place sealed off from the modern world, where the Sentinelese have refused all contact for centuries. But he wasn’t a tourist. He saw himself as a messenger with a message no one else dared deliver. He carried in his pack a waterproof Bible, gifts, hopes, and a deep certainty that he would either be welcomed or die trying. What followed is part tragedy, part mystery. The fisherman who dropped him off  claimed they saw islanders dragging a body across the sand and a burial at dusk. But exactly what happened in the hours between his arrival and his death - no one knows. His body was never recovered. Was he a martyr? A fool? A man haunted by divine urgency? Or someone who crossed the ultimate boundary - between the known and the unknowable - and paid the price? Listen as we dive into North Sentinel Island, the case of John Allen Chau, and how to stay alive on vacation. Do you have a story to share? Send your email to [email protected] We're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastTripPodcast Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter Sources: https://www.instagram.com/johnachau/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/john-chau-christian-missionary-death-sentinelese https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46345231 https://allnations.international/john-chau https://www.alex-perry.com/the-last-days-of-john-allen-chau/ https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/asia/north-sentinel-island-john-allen-chau-diary-intl https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/john-chaus-death-roils-the-missionary-world https://www.npr.org/2019/08/01/747368557/the-story-behind-john-allen-chau-an-american-missionary-who-was-killed-while-wor https://au.thegospelcoalition.org/article/john-allen-chau-noble-savages/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-allen-chau https://frontline.thehindu.com/arts-and-culture/a-national-geographic-documentary-examines-the-life-and-death-of-john-allen-chau/article67807254.ece https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46336355 https://sojo.net/articles/john-allen-chau-was-product-missions-marketing-system https://abcnews.go.com/International/john-allen-chau-detailed-efforts-convert-islanders-christianity/story?id=59401238

  --------  

  39:57

  --------

  39:57
• 102: Eloi Rolland: Auckland, New Zealand

  In March 2020, 18 year old Eloi Rolland left his homestay on Auckland’s North Shore  just before dawn. He was a French exchange student - curious, soft-spoken,  and enchanted by New Zealand’s beauty. That morning he opened Google Maps and searched the word Piha. A remote black-sand beach known for its cliffs, its isolation… and its danger. He caught a bus, then a train. CCTV caught him walking alone as the city woke up. By 9:18am, his phone pinged one final time along Piha Road in Waitakere Ranges -  and then… nothing.No more messages. No more movement. No more Eloi.  Police scoured the bushland - dense, silent, and endless - but no trace of him was ever found. What happened in the misty hills outside Auckland? Did Eloi wander off the track? Fall off the cliffs?  Or was something - or someone - waiting for him there? Listen as we dive into New Zealand, the case of Eloi Rolland, and how to stay alive on vacation. Do you have a story to share? Send your email to [email protected] We're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastTripPodcast Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter Sources: https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360759600/parents-missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-take-search-south-island https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/124382819/missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-friends-and-family-still-have-no-answers-a-year-on?_ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120283016/french-national-eloi-jean-rolland-18-missing-in-auckland https://www.police.govt.nz/missing-persons/listings/eloi-rolland https://www.facebook.com/MISSINGELOIJEANROLLAND/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120409689/french-teen-missing-from-auckland-had-troubled-state-of-mind https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120511116/sister-of-fit-smiley-french-teen-missing-in-auckland-desperate-for-answers https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/120860887/chances-of-finding-missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-alive-becoming-more-slim https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/family-of-french-teen-eloi-jean-rolland-missing-in-auckland-since-march-reveal-more/5GVRVY5ZNGMZMKKHJGV4YDB3R4/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300097890/missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-family-say-theyve-lost-hope-six-months-after-disappearance https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300189370/the-missing-people-of-piha-25-years-six-cases-no-answers https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300201475/missing-french-teen-eloi-rolland-reportedly-sighted-13km-from-last-known-location https://www.20minutes.fr/faits_divers/4096164-20240621-disparition-eloi-rolland-nouvelle-zelande-va-declarer-mort-jeune-homme https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/malgre-labsence-de-corps-la-nouvelle-zelande-va-prononcer-le-deces-deloi-rolland-18-ans-disparu-en-2020-24-06-2024-W2572J4WSNHH7F4NG2S7VJ573M.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwbEs-Xku8Y

  --------  

  43:26

  --------

  43:26
• 101: Jim Sullivan: Santa Rosa, New Mexico

  In 1975, a musician named Jim Sullivan got into his car and left Los Angeles behind. He was heading east, chasing a new beginning - or maybe running from something he couldn’t name. He was tall, handsome, magnetic - and his music carried that same restless energy.  Songs about highways, lost souls, and vanishing into the unknown. The kind of lyrics that feel like they’re trying to tell you something… if you’re really listening. Somewhere along that long stretch of desert road, Jim stopped - and from that moment on, no one knows what happened next. His story faded into rumor, mystery, and myth - tangled up in the same strange beauty that filled his songs. Today, we’re going to follow the same road Jim Sullivan took - the one that led him deep into the desert… and out of the world we know. Listen as we dive into New Mexico, the case of Jim Sullivan, and how to stay alive on vacation. Do you have a story to share? Send your email to [email protected] We're on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastTripPodcast Follow us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thelasttripcrimepod/ And join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheLastTripPodcast Theme Music by Roger Allen Dexter Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/arts/music/jim-sullivan.html https://archive.ph/20190215195820/https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2010/11/10/the-strange-tale-of-jim-sullivans-u-f-o/ https://ultimateclassicrock.com/missing-ufo-singer-songwriter/ https://waxidermy.com/jim-sullivan-ufo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/153yeuj/jim_sullivan_was_an_american_singersongwriter_and/ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/searching-for-sullivan/ https://www.ripleys.com/stories/jim-sullivan https://floodmagazine.com/71829/mystery-and-history-the-strange-music-and-stranger-tale-of-jim-sullivan/ https://lightintheattic.net/products/jim-sullivan?srsltid=AfmBOor1gs0JjBwiuB7MVBI_bdkadqzkjsUnhjMldXJDv9D5AP5a0PJg https://therodeomag.com/2019/10/22/the-night-jim-sullivan-disappeared/ https://vocal.media/fyi/whatever-happened-to-musician-jim-sullivan

  --------  

  41:27

  --------

  41:27

More News podcasts

Trending News podcasts

About The Last Trip