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Nov 13, 2025 33 min

Hell and Gone Murder Line: Karen Mitchell

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On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1997, 16-year-old Karen Mitchell vanished in Eureka, California. Originally from Whittier near Long Beach, she had moved north a few months earlier to live with her aunt and uncle, hoping the rural setting would suit her nature-loving personality better than Southern California. That afternoon, Karen caught a ride with her aunt to Bayshore Mall, then left around 2:45 p.m. to walk about a mile along Broadway (US 101) to her daycare job...but she never arrived. When her aunt came to pick her up hours later, Karen was gone. Despite immediate searches and her mother’s desperate trip north, Karen Mitchell was never seen again. If you have a case you’d like us to look into, you can reach out to us at our Hell and Gone Murder Line at 678-744-6145. Or, you can send us a message on Instagram @hellandgonepod

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