SEQUESTERED Podcast

1983 | The Ann Gotlib Mystery

On the first day of summer break in 1983, 12-year-old Ann Gotlib rides her bike home through the parking lot of Bashford Manor Mall in Louisville, Kentuky, then vanishes. Her bicycle is later found outside a department store. But Ann is gone. In the days that follow, witnesses report seeing a man dragging a young girl near a field and drainage ditch not far from the mall. Police release a composite sketch. Search teams comb through woods, creeks, and shoulder-high grass. And investigators begin chasing a case built almost entirely on fragments. A goodbye in a parking lot. A possible sighting inside the mall. A mysterious phone call. A hitchhiker story that briefly changes everything. And decades later, a dead man publicly named by police as the prime suspect. In this episode, Sara Reid retraces the disappearance of Ann Gotlib, a bright 12-year-old daughter of Soviet Jewish immigrants whose case became part of a national shift in how America responds to missing children. But more than 40 years later, Ann has still never been found.

1982 | The Vanishing of Jennifer Marteliz

Jennifer Marteliz was seven years old when she disappeared while walking home from school in Tampa, Florida, on November 15, 1982. She was only blocks from home. Witnesses later described seeing Jennifer upset near a crossing guard and possibly near a rust-colored car shortly before she vanished. What should have been an ordinary walk home became one of Florida's most haunting unsolved child disappearance cases. In Episode 3 of SEQUESTERED Season Four, Sara Reid reconstructs Jennifer's final known moments through witness accounts, search records, media reporting, and the growing fractures inside the investigation itself. As police and volunteers searched neighborhoods, drainage pipes, vacant lots, and wooded areas across Tampa, the case slowly became defined by uncertainty: conflicting sightings, theories that never fully fit, and a timeline that seemed impossibly small for a child to disappear without a trace. More than forty years later, Jennifer Marteliz has never been found. And the few minutes between school and home still remain unexplained.

BONUS EPISODE: Jason Chen Case Update: Motion for New Trial Denied

On May 4, 2026, Jason Chen returned to Hamilton County Criminal Court in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking for a new trial in the murder case of Jasmine Pace. Chen's defense argued that issues from the original trial warranted another chance to make his case, including questions about evidence, the search of Chen's apartment, and the presence of Jasmine's family members in the courtroom. Judge Boyd Patterson denied the motion, stating that the arguments had already been litigated and that the court would rely on the same conclusions previously reached. For Sara Reid, Juror Number 11 in the original trial, this update is not just a legal development. It is a return to the courtroom, the evidence, the verdict, and the weight of what the jury was asked to decide. In this bonus episode of SEQUESTERED, Sara walks through the latest ruling, what it means for the conviction and sentence, and why Jasmine Pace remains at the center of this story. The verdict stands. The sentence remains in place. And Jasmine is not forgotten.

1981 | The Day Charlotte Kinsey & Cinda Pallett Disappeared

In September of 1981, the Oklahoma State Fair was in full swing; bright lights, crowded walkways, and the kind of place where parents felt safe letting their kids roam free. That's where 13-year-old friends Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett were last seen. After being offered what seemed like a harmless job unloading stuffed animals, the girls left the fairgrounds with a man they didn't know. They even called home to tell their parents about the job, and were told to call back later to arrange a ride. That call never came. What followed was a nationwide search, a critical witness account that extended their final known movements beyond the fairgrounds, and a suspect investigators believed had done this before. But despite mounting evidence, a chilling pattern, and years of investigation, the case would collapse in court. More than four decades later, Charlotte and Cinda have never been found. And the man many believe responsible was never convicted of their murders. This is the disappearance of Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett.

1980 | The Disappearance of Laureen Rahn

In April 1980, fourteen-year-old Laureen Rahn vanished from her home in Manchester, New Hampshire. There were no signs of a struggle. No witnesses. No clear explanation for how a teenager could disappear from a third-floor apartment in the middle of the night. In the hours that followed, investigators were left with only a handful of details - a friend asleep inside, an open back door, and a timeline that stopped at the moment Laureen moved from her bed to the couch. Months later, a series of phone calls would surface, pulling the case thousands of miles away from New Hampshire…and raising questions that have never been answered. In Episode 1 of SEQUESTERED Season 4, Sara Reid reconstructs the final known hours of Laureen's disappearance; and the quiet, unresolved mystery at the center of a case that remains open more than four decades later.