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Rachel Pratt Missing In Garden City (Special Guest Patrick Hassen. Not Adding Up Podcast

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True crime podcaster Mary Ann teams up with guest Patrick Hassen (Not Adding Up) to cover the 1995 cold case disappearance of 15-year-old Rachel Geraldine Pratt of Garden City, Kansas — a case brought to the podcast's attention by the Garden City Police Department itself via Twitter. Rachel was the oldest of eight children, a high-achieving student and athlete who was secretly dating an 18-year-old and had just become pregnant when she vanished on January 15, 1995, the night after performing four solos at a jazz concert. The hosts argue the most overlooked evidence is a mysterious mattress fire in the family basement the same night Rachel disappeared — an incident police apparently never fully investigated — while media attention has instead fixated on an unverified sighting at a local grocery store. Rachel's contacts, ID, social security card, and letterman's jacket were all left behind; her SSN has never been used and no evidence she ever gave birth has surfaced.

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A missing-persons case shaped by one unsettling household detail.

The episode keeps circling the disappearance and the mattress fire that never quite stops mattering. Patrick, host of Not Adding Up, moves the discussion through family memories, timeline friction, and the uneasy sense that an ordinary night may have been anything but ordinary.

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When a mattress fire is the detail that will not let the case settle.

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