Gina Bos: The Podcaster Who Covered This Case in 2016 Returns | Witness Wednesday: Ed Dentzel (Unfound)

Gina Bos disappeared from Lincoln, Nebraska on the night of November 11, 2000. She was 40 years old, a mother of three. She had just finished playing an open mic night at Duggan's Pub with guitar, sheet music, equipment loaded into the trunk of her car. The trunk was never shut. Her purse was not in the car. Nobody heard anything. Nobody saw anything. And in 26 years, no one has been charged.

It is the longest-running active missing person case in Lincoln, Nebraska.

In this Witness Wednesday, Kevin is joined by Ed Dentzel of the Unfound Podcast — one of the longest-running true crime missing persons podcasts in the country, now over 400 cases and who covered Gina's case in 2016 in one of his earliest episodes. He went back to his notes for this conversation, and what still strikes him most is the same thing that strikes anyone who looks at this case carefully: the open trunk. Whatever happened to Gina Bos happened in a matter of seconds. The guitar made it in. The trunk never closed. That window of time, measured in seconds, not minutes, is where the answer lives.

This conversation covers the specifics of what the physical evidence does and doesn't tell us; the victimology (low-risk lifestyle, but a public performer out alone at 1am, in a parking lot across the street from the bar, in a city of 225,000); the detective who told Dateline in 2018 that he believes he knows who's responsible but doesn't have enough to charge anyone; the seven hours that passed before Gina was reported missing and why that window matters more than any 48-hour window a TV show has ever promised; and the question of whether, at 26 years, a case like this can still be solved.

Ed Dentzel's answer: an 80-year-old disappearance was solved thru Unfound. Gina's case is 26 years old. The math still works.

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