Finding
Payne
Barrett Parkway with his younger brother when he came
bursting through the door to share his epiphany: he could
make a podcast.
Using the success of “Serial,” as a blueprint, Lindsey
started searching for cold cases to cover. He came across
Grinstead’s on the Georgia Bureau of Investigations website,
listing her disappearance as the state’s No. 1 unsolved case.
On August 7, 2016, he released the first episode of “Up and
Vanished.”
“I just started making a show that I would want to listen
to,” he said. “The part I was concerned about the most was
my own voice. Everyone always says that, but I just didn’t
view myself as like the radio guy.”
But Lindsey had a knack for delivering to an audio
audience in a new, creative way. He created eerie music to
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