Andrew Dixon Part 1: Scattered Pieces

March 23, 2026·58 min·5 clips

A surveillance camera captured Andrew Dixon parking his car and walking away, moments before he vanished without a trace.

The first feeling is dread. A loved one says Andrew Dixon's disappearance hit hard, partly because she had talked with him only weeks earlier. Then the episode gets practical. Investigators ask to look around a residence, are refused consent, and go for a search warrant because something feels wrong. They start carefully, with a protective sweep meant to secure the house and keep evidence from disappearing. Then the case turns on a small piece of video. Surveillance outside the Sierra County Detention Facility in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico shows a white Kia Soul arriving on July 28th, 2025. The clip does not give much away. A driver parks, gets out, and walks away from the camera. That leaves investigators staring at one plain moment, trying to decide how much it matters. Andrew does not become just a person in a file. Relatives bring him back into view, describing addiction that came and went in cycles. Alcohol, pills, and drugs were ways to get out of himself, and sometimes one dependency seemed to take the place of another. There were better stretches too. Mixed martial arts gave him routine, discipline, and drug testing, and for a while it helped him stay clean. The family history adds another ache. Lacey, Andrew's cousin, says addiction and mental illness ran strongly through the family. She talks plainly about Andrew's mother living with schizophrenia and remembers calls from her aunt from a mental institution. New Mexico sounded like a chance. Lacey was glad he left their small Oklahoma town, where she saw little opportunity. The episode does not solve the disappearance. It stacks the pieces: police work, family memory, addiction, grief, and that brief video, then leaves the story open.

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A careful missing person story that stays with Andrew Dixon and the people around him.

Andrew Dixon's disappearance is pieced together from a surveillance camera, a white Kia Soul, the report that a 2004 Toyota Camry was missing, and the first moves of a police search. The episode works because it lets those details land one by one.

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