The Final Journey investigates two lacking Florida males

The Final Journey is a real crime podcast about two younger males of coloration who went lacking in Naples, Florida practically 20 years in the past after they have been final seen with the identical white sheriff’s deputy.

Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams vanished three months aside, on the identical highway within the early 2000s. Their disappearances hang-out their households, police and journalists. In each circumstances, the now-fired deputy Steven Calkins mentioned he gave Santos and Williams rides to Circle Okay retailer gasoline stations, tales that might by no means be corroborated.

The eight-episode podcast delves into this thriller that reveals painful truths about police accountability and media protection of lacking individuals.

Episodes embody new particulars concerning the circumstances, dramatic polygraph audio with the deputy and unique interviews with lead investigators, media mogul Tyler Perry, well-known civil rights legal professional Ben Crump, the mother and father of Terrance Williams and advocates for Felipe Santos.

The host, Janine Zeitlin, first lined the story as a brand new reporter. The award-winning Florida journalist seems to be the final reporter to talk to the deputy. She is from the identical rural Illinois hometown as Calkins and traveled again to their hometown and Tennessee, the place Terrance Williams was from, in quest of solutions.

The Final Journey was reported by Zeitlin and different investigative reporters with the Naples Every day Information and The Fort Myers Information-Press, a part of the USA TODAY Community, distributed by the NPR Community and produced in partnership with WGCU Public Media.

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Marcia Roberts, the mom of Terrance Williams, reacts after an unidentified particular person comes ahead with details about the disappearance of her son, and Felipe Santos throughout a press convention on Jan. 10, 2013.

Nobody’s been arrested or charged for no matter occurred Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams. Civil rights legal professional Ben Crump and filmmaker Tyler Perry be part of the authorized combat for accountability.

May one thing lastly come to mild to unravel this tragic thriller?

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Felipe Santos in age progressed picture and earlier than he disappeared in October 2003.

Felipe Santos, a 23-year-old immigrant from Mexico, disappeared after a minor site visitors crash in Naples within the fall of 2003. He was seen behind the patrol automobile of Steven Calkins, the Collier County deputy on the scene.

Felipe was by no means seen once more.

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A photograph of lacking Naples man Terrance Williams across the time of his disappearance (proper) beside an age-progressed picture of Williams that reveals how he would possibly look now.

Terrance Williams was 27 when he disappeared in January 2004.

He was pulled over by Deputy Steven Calkins close to a Naples cemetery.

His mom and stepfather started their very own investigation and unlocked key particulars when the sheriff’s workplace was not initially responsive in looking for Terrance.

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The Circle Okay the place former Collier County deputy Steven Calkins mentioned he dropped off Terrance Williams photographed, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, US 41 and Wiggins Go Street in Naples, Fla.
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Deputy Steven Calkins takes three polygraph assessments concerning the disappearance of Terrance Williams. Inconsistencies between his dispatch calls, his personal statements and the polygraphs solely convey up extra questions. Why did not Calkins report pulling Terrance over? Was the Cadillac actually damaged down? What time did this all occur? And, with every polygraph, it is clear that suspicions about Calkins are heating up.

Anybody with details about the lacking individuals circumstances is requested to name the Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace at 239-252-9300. To stay nameless, contact Crime Stoppers at 800-780-8477.