"Up and Vanished” Podcast Returns with a New Case

 Payne Lindsey is one of those figures in podcasting who has delivered quality content for years. His shows are singularly unique and nicely crafted, without the whiff of audience pandering that too often afflicts the larger podcast networks, who are desperate for more downloads and ad revenue any way they can achieve those twin goals.

The intriguing crime investigative podcast series, Up and Vanished returns with part two of Up and Vanished: In the Midnight Sun, where Payne Lindsey revisits Nome, Alaska to investigate the cryptic missing persons case of Joseph Balderas.

In part two of the latest season, produced by Tenderfoot TV in partnership with Audacy, Lindsey continues his journey in Nome, Alaska, to investigate the disappearance of 36-year-old Joseph Balderas, who went missing on June 25, 2016, in the rugged Alaskan community. The community in Nome, has been home to mysterious disappearances, and part one, first introduced listeners to Alaskan Native, Florence Okpealuk whose unique disappearances in a town that has hindered law enforcement and angered residents. To date, the Up and Vanished franchise is credited with breaking new information, some leading to arrests, for multiple missing persons cases.     Lindsey is an Atlanta-based director, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and the co-creator and host of chart-topping podcasts and franchises such as Up and Vanished, High Strange, Radio Rental, and Atlanta Monster. In 2016, on the heels of the success of Up and Vanished, Lindsey launched Atlanta-based content creation company Tenderfoot TV with his friend and business partner Donald Albright. Since its founding, they have released several award-winning podcast franchises, amassing over 800 million total downloads to date.  Beyond hosting shows, Lindsey also serves as executive producer on all other Tenderfoot TV podcasts, including Radio Rental, the horror podcast that transports listeners into a mysterious world with real-life scary stories, featuring the voice of Rainn Wilson as a quirky video store clerk. He has also combined his documentary skillset with podcasting, bringing Up and Vanished to the TV screen as a docu-series for Oxygen Network in 2020.  Check out Up and Vanished:In the Midnight Sun, where Payne Lindsey revisits Nome, Alaska to investigate the cryptic missing person's case of Joseph Balderas. The show is definitely a notch above the all-too-familiar true-crime podcast show.