Buried
41 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 249 ratingsCarey Mae Parker has been missing from northeast Texas since 1991. People go missing every day, but there's something unusual about Carey's case. After two decades without answers, family members made a shocking discovery: Police never launched an investigation. We spent a year searching for clues about Carey's disappearance. And about the people who let it happen.
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Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 09 - June 6, 2022
June 08, 2022 13:52 - 1 minute - 1.06 MBThe northeast Texas mother-of-three disappeared along with her vehicle in early 1991. Until early last year, when a volunteer group called Adventures With Purpose used sonar to locate her car in Lake Tawakoni. They found human remains last October. Parker’s children announced in late May that authorities matched the remains to family D-N-A. Now the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office is closing its missing person case. It says the University of North Texas Health Science Center for Human Identi...
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 08 - May 25, 2022
May 25, 2022 21:30 - 1 minute - 1.53 MBEarly last year, divers pulled wreckage from a 1980 Buick Skylark out of Lake Tawakoni. They returned last fall and discovered human remains under the debris. Those remains have now been matched to Carey Mae Parker — a young northeast Texas mother-of-three who went missing along with her Buick in 1991. Parker’s daughter Brandy Hathcock confirmed yesterday (Tuesday) that investigators used D-N-A to identify the remains, presumed to be Parker’s. “She’s coming home!” Hathcock wrote in a Fac...
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 07 - Oct. 15, 2021
October 16, 2021 04:22 - 1 minute - 1.15 MBThe Oregon-based group Adventures With Purpose located parts of Carey Mae Parker’s car during its first search at Lake Tawakoni in February. On Friday, the group might have found remains of Carey Mae Parker herself. Founder Jared Leisek confirmed late Friday that his team found human remains in a debris pile from Parker’s car near a causeway on the lake’s Waco Bay. The dive group located Parker’s 1980 Buick Skylark in February and brought parts of it to the surface. Later searches b...
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 06 - Feb. 24, 2021
February 25, 2021 03:34 - 1 minute - 1.51 MBIt was around this time of year in 1991 when Carey Mae Parker seemed to disappear without a trace from southern Hunt County. Until three weeks ago — when a private search group located Parker’s car upside down in a bay north of her family’s home. Authorities lifted most of the 1980 Buick Skylark out of the water later the same day. This week, forensic divers from the Texas Department of Public Safety and others returned to Waco Bay to search for more submerged evidence. After marking spot...
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 05 - Feb. 05, 2021
February 06, 2021 02:51 - 1 minute - 1.46 MBFrom a Hunt County Sheriff's Office press release dated February 5, 2021: "On February 4, 2021 at approximately 5:43 pm, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a call from a search and recovery team advising they had located a vehicle in Lake Tawakoni near the causeway on FM 751. Hunt County Sheriff Terry Jones responded with patrol units and the Criminal Investigation Division to learn the search and recovery team were on the lake using sonar equipment when they discovered a ve...
The Buried Lede: Production Notes and Dog Searches
July 24, 2019 16:30 - 41 minutes - 38 MBThe Buried Lede is an opportunity to connect with the people behind Buried. Send questions and ideas to [email protected]; we'll answer on future episodes. And keep up with the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can subscribe to Buried for free on NPR One, Apple Podcasts, CastBox and anywhere else you listen to podcasts. Files: Public Reprimand of Dan Robertson -- July 1995
Buried Episode 15: The Black World
July 09, 2019 08:55 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBOn Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991, a Quinlan police officer arrested Carey Mae Parker on a warrant for traffic offenses. Here's what happened next.
Buried Preview: Episode 15
June 20, 2019 22:48 - 2 minutes - 2.46 MBLaw enforcement officials in the Lake Tawakoni area had a reputation for corruption and criminality -- much of it deserved -- throughout the 1990s. Police officers in south Hunt County say they're still picking up the pieces.
Buried Update: Texas State Highway Search
June 01, 2019 00:30 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBIn the latest search for Carey Mae Parker, sheriff's deputies use ground-penetrating radar and cadaver dogs to scan properties in northeast Texas.
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 04 - May 24, 2019
May 24, 2019 18:15 - 1 minute - 2.49 MBSgt. Jeff Haines of the Hunt Co. Sheriff’s Office said searchers used cadaver dogs and ground penetrating radar on three adjacent properties as part of the investigation into Parker's 1991 disappearance from the area of Quinlan, TX. Haines declined to elaborate on any results of the day's efforts before notifying Parker's family about the searches. But the detective did confirm the search areas included properties that belonged in the past to the family of Cody Songer, a man Parker dated be...
Buried Update: We're Working On A Fix
May 09, 2019 21:00 - 3 minutes - 5.23 MBWe're working on a solution to problems accessing Buried on certain podcast apps. In the meantime, every episode is available at KETR.org/Buried.
Buried Episode 14: The Constable
March 22, 2019 02:00 - 32 minutes - 36.7 MBThe constable Carey Mae Parker 's father says he contacted in 1991 had enemies within local law enforcement and the courts.
Buried Bonus: Billy Givens Extended Interview
February 22, 2019 01:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBAn inmate in a Texas prison looks back on an alarming conversation he had with Carey Mae Parker 's ex-boyfriend Cody.
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 03 - Feb. 21, 2019
February 21, 2019 08:54 - 1 minute - 1.52 MBDogs trained to detect human remains have resumed searches near the former home of a woman missing since 1991, a law enforcement official said Monday.
Buried Episode 13: No Body, No Crime
February 16, 2019 00:10 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBAn inmate in a Texas prison can't shake some of the things Carey Mae Parker 's ex-boyfriend Cody said while on the run in Oklahoma.
Buried Update: Waco Bay Estate Search
January 25, 2019 03:07 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBCanine units from across the country descend on Lake Tawakoni's Waco Bay Estate subdivision in the first search of its kind for Carey Mae Parker .
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 02 - Jan. 22, 2019
January 23, 2019 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.37 MBAuthorities in northeast Texas launched a day-long search Saturday of properties once connected to a woman who vanished nearly three decades ago.
The Buried Lede: Three Days On The Road
December 27, 2018 19:05 - 38 minutes - 43.6 MBThe Buried Lede is an opportunity to connect with the people behind Buried, like Brittany, George, and Jerrod. Send questions and ideas to [email protected]; we'll answer on future episodes. And keep up with the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can subscribe to Buried for free on NPR One, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Buried Episode 12: The Cody Call
December 21, 2018 06:55 - 37 minutes - 42.9 MBThe ex-boyfriend of Carey Mae Parker on their tumultuous relationship, new insights into an infamous party and a theory that Carey is alive.
Buried Bonus: Jeff Haines Extended Interview
December 07, 2018 01:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBThe detective in charge of investigating Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance offers his perspective on the cold case he took over in 2013.
Buried Episode 11: Misdirection
November 30, 2018 00:45 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBIn July 2017, KETR approached the Hunt Co. Sheriff's Office to discuss Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance. It didn't go well.
Buried Episode 10: A Hunt For Skulls
November 01, 2018 23:10 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBCarey Mae Parker 's brother and sister explore properties connected to some of the rumors about their sister's disappearance and the events that followed.
Buried Radio: KETR News Spot 01 - Oct. 11, 2018
October 11, 2018 05:15 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MBMissing people can't advocate for themselves. So, a new group in northeast Texas is aiming to become their voice.
The Buried Lede: Tales from Waco Bay Estate
September 27, 2018 21:00 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBThe Buried Lede is an opportunity to connect with the people behind Buried, like George, Jerrod, and Carinne. Send questions and ideas to [email protected]; we'll answer on future episodes. And keep up with the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can subscribe to Buried for free on NPR One, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music and anywhere else you listen to podcasts. National Freedom of Information Coalition: Texas FOIA Laws Office of the Attorney General of Texas Public Info...
Buried Bonus: Louise Kinslow Extended Interview
September 20, 2018 22:45 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBThe mother of Sarah Elizabeth Kinslow describes the weeks following her daughter's disapperance and the impact it had on her family.
Buried Episode 09: The Kinslow Girl
September 13, 2018 22:45 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBCarey Mae Parker isn't the only missing person with ties to Lake Tawakoni.
Buried Episode 08: In The Woods
August 23, 2018 23:38 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBCarey Mae Parker 's son reveals that Carey's father Howard admitted to killing someone decades earlier in a foreign country.
Buried Episode 07: A Well Under A Shed
August 09, 2018 20:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBA Hunt County detective identifies a person of interest in Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance: Her dad.
The Buried Lede: Let's Talk About The Party
July 26, 2018 21:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBThe Buried Lede is an opportunity to connect with the people behind Buried, like Emma. Send questions and ideas to [email protected]; we'll answer on future episodes. And keep up with the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can subscribe to Buried for free on NPR One, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Buried Episode 06: A Visit To Tishomingo, Oklahoma
July 19, 2018 20:45 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBIn his first interview with the detective investigating Carey Mae Parker 's disappearance, Cody recounts his version of the party in Hawk Cove.
Buried Preview: Episode 06
July 12, 2018 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.03 MBIn November 2016, a detective from the Hunt Co. Sheriff's Office traveled to Tishomingo, OK, to track down and question Carey's ex-boyfriend Cody. Cody tells Sgt. Jeff Haines that Carey started "stalking" him and followed him to a party in Hawk Cove, TX. Cody says that was the last time he saw her.
Buried Bonus: Janice Hight Extended Interview
June 28, 2018 21:15 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MBCody's ex-girlfriend Janice digs into rumors about Carey Mae Parker 's car and a disturbing letter she received from a man in prison.
Buried Episode 05: Every Single Drop
June 21, 2018 21:30 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBIt's been over two decades since Cody's ex-girlfriend Carey Mae Parker disappeared. But even after all these years, Carey is very much on Cody's mind.
Buried Preview: Episode 05
June 14, 2018 09:00 - 2 minutes - 2.43 MBJanice and Cody lived together for a year in Oklahoma. She says that not long after they started dating, he mentioned Carey and the last time he says he saw her. He told her that Carey threw a drink in his face before leaving a party. Carey's brother Glenn says that Cody's father started acting strangely after her disappearance. He believes they both knew something about it.
Buried Episode 04: A Party And A Fight
June 07, 2018 22:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBYears after Carey Mae Parker went missing, her family started hearing rumors about a party. And a fight.
Buried Preview: Episode 04
May 31, 2018 09:00 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MBIn the five years after Carey's family filed its missing person report, the Hunt Co. Sheriff’s Office didn't interview her ex-boyfriend Cody. So, one day in May 2014, her son Brian took matters into his own hands. In a 7-minute call, Brian questions Cody about some of the things his grandfather told the family about a party and a fight in a place called Hawk Cove.
The Buried Lede: There's So Much More Coming
May 24, 2018 21:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBThe Buried Lede is an opportunity to connect with the people behind Buried. Send questions and ideas to [email protected]; we'll answer on future episodes. And keep up with the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You can subscribe to Buried for free on NPR One, Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music and anywhere else you listen to podcasts. Stacey reply to Patricia letter -- Nov. 19, 2012 Stacey reply to Patricia letter -- Nov. 28, 2012 Stacey reply to Patricia letter -- Dec. 16, 2...
Buried Episode 03: Drama
November 30, 2017 06:12 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBBrandy and Brian remember what they can about their mother, Carey Mae Parker , and how her disappearance shaped their childhoods and the adults they became.
Buried Episode 02: Nineteen Years And Counting
October 31, 2017 04:25 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBAfter two years without help from the Hunt County Sheriff's Office, Carey Mae Parker 's family launches its own investigation.
Buried Episode 01: Incident 940808
October 10, 2017 22:05 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBThe family of a young Texas woman who went missing in 1991 makes a shocking discovery: For 19 years, law enforcement didn't investigate.
Buried Preview: Missing In Northeast Texas
September 15, 2017 20:00 - 2 minutes - 2.66 MBAfter years without answers, family members made a shocking discovery: Police never investigated. For nearly 20 years, no search was conducted, and no one was questioned. And Carey isn’t the only one missing. Reporter George Hale follows Carey's family as they pursue the truth about her disappearance, and about some of the people who let it happen. You can subscribe now on the NPR One app or wherever you get podcasts.