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Irene Gakwa // 278
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Feb 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In February of 2022, a 32-year-old nursing student from Kenya went missing in Wyoming after moving there with her boyfriend. Between allegedly burning unknown items in a metal drum, to her phone number being deactivated, police and her family began to wonder if her partner potentially had something to do with her disappearance. This is the story of Irene Gakwa.
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CASE SOURCES
1. Find Irene Gakwa Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/findirenegawka/
2. People: https://people.com/crime/irene-gakwa-case-family-kenyan-woman-who-vanished-want-truth/
3. People: https://people.com/crime/woman-vanished-february-under-suspicious-circumstances-met-boyfriend-craigslist/
4. Irene's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/reward-for-locating-irene-gakwa
5. CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/irene-gakwa-missing-wyoming-woman-family-cec/index.html
6. Wyoming Truth: https://wyomingtruth.org/blog-criminal-justice/the-search-for-irene-fiance-of-missing-kenyan-granted-second-continuance-in-irene-gawka-case
7. Where Is Irene? https://www.whereisirene.com/index.php/what-we-know
8. ABC: https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-seeks-answers-month-search-woman-missing-wyoming/story?id=90988796
9. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/family-still-searching-answers-five-months-after-mysterious-wyoming-disappearance-n1299342
10. Nairobi News: https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ex-lover-of-irene-gakwa-kenyan-missing-in-the-us-arraigned-in-court/
11. City of Gillette Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CityofGillette/posts/373186474837794
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BONUS EPISODES
patreon.com/goingwestpodcast
CASE SOURCES
1. Find Irene Gakwa Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/findirenegawka/
2. People: https://people.com/crime/irene-gakwa-case-family-kenyan-woman-who-vanished-want-truth/
3. People: https://people.com/crime/woman-vanished-february-under-suspicious-circumstances-met-boyfriend-craigslist/
4. Irene's GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/reward-for-locating-irene-gakwa
5. CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/02/us/irene-gakwa-missing-wyoming-woman-family-cec/index.html
6. Wyoming Truth: https://wyomingtruth.org/blog-criminal-justice/the-search-for-irene-fiance-of-missing-kenyan-granted-second-continuance-in-irene-gawka-case
7. Where Is Irene? https://www.whereisirene.com/index.php/what-we-know
8. ABC: https://abcnews.go.com/US/family-seeks-answers-month-search-woman-missing-wyoming/story?id=90988796
9. NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/family-still-searching-answers-five-months-after-mysterious-wyoming-disappearance-n1299342
10. Nairobi News: https://nairobinews.nation.africa/ex-lover-of-irene-gakwa-kenyan-missing-in-the-us-arraigned-in-court/
11. City of Gillette Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CityofGillette/posts/373186474837794
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Released:
Feb 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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