Missing Pieces (Radio) Transcript / Episode 29

(Introduction to show begins)

TODD MATTHEWS (Missing Pieces Host): Welcome to Missing Pieces. Missing Pieces is a program designed to raise public awareness and encourage communication of information between people who can help locate or identify individuals in cases that have been classified as unsolved, missing, murdered, and unidentified. Tonight we have Barb Kinsey sister of Patty Brightwell Vaughan. Welcome.

BARBARA KINSEY (Guest): Hello Todd.

TODD: How are you doing?

BARB: I'm doing great.

TODD: Now that we've got the formalities over with, we've got the floor and I think you've got back from the Cue Center Rally.

BARB: I did. I just got back yesterday.

TODD: So you probably had a lot of information that you gathered there.

BARB: It was incredible. An incredible amount of information.

TODD: But Patty, she went missing on December 25, 1996; this has been over 10 years.

BARB: Correct. Patty disappeared on Christmas Day, 1996.

TODD: Ok. Can you give us a little background information on that?

BARB: Well the last time I saw Patty was on Christmas Eve at a family gathering, she and her children came. And then Christmas Day her estranged husband was to come to her home to celebrate Christmas with the children and later that evening she was to go to another relative's house and she never showed up with the children. Her van was found on the 26th of December 20 miles from her home and the tire had been intentionally deflated, the driver's seat was pushed all the way back, the carpet had been shampooed, and there were no fingerprints in the van.

TODD: All cleaned up.

BARB: Umm hmm. And her estranged husband whose name is RJ Vaughan gave a statement to police and to us and said that they had had a terrible fight and that she had gotten into a car on Christmas Day and drove away. And anyone who knows Patty knows that she would have never left her home or her children on Christmas Day or any day. She would have never of left her children. She was an incredible mother and her whole world revolves around her children.