The Man Who Vanished into Thin Air

Support the podcast & help keep independent true crime storytelling alive: ☕ Buy Me A Coffee:  http://buymeacoffee.com/Whattheyhidepod In September 2016, 23-year-old RAF gunner Corrie McKeague vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. CCTV captured Corrie walking into a loading bay known as The Horseshoe at 3:25am. He was never definitively seen leaving. What followed became one of Britain’s strangest and most debated missing person investigations. As police traced Corrie’s final movements, theories of abduction, foul play and voluntary disappearance spread across the country — before investigators eventually arrived at a shocking conclusion involving a refuse lorry and a landfill site. In this episode of What They Hide: Hidden Crimes in Plain Sight, we examine: Corrie’s final night out the baffling CCTV mystery early police theories and media speculation the movement of Corrie’s phone after he disappeared the controversial bin-lorry theory the massive landfill search public criticism of the investigation the 2022 inquest findings and the unanswered questions that still haunt the case today. This episode contains discussions of death, traumatic injury and missing persons. Listener discretion is advised.   Follow the podcast: Instagram/X/TikTok: @whattheyhidepod Email: [email protected]   Sources Suffolk Police – Corrie McKeague Investigation Archive BBC News Coverage – Corrie McKeague Case The Guardian – Inquest Findings (2022) ITV News – The Missing Airman and the Bin Theory Wikipedia – Death of Corrie McKeague The Independent – Corrie McKeague Inquest Reporting