What happened to Niqui McCown? Preview Dateline: Missing In America Season 5

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Josh Mankiewicz** (1:15)
Hey, it's Josh Mankiewicz with a preview of Dateline Missing in America. In our podcast's fifth season, we share six new unsolved mysteries. And we're hoping someone listening might have a clue that could help crack one of these cases. Maybe that someone is you. Here's Dateline Missing in America.
It begins with butterflies. The kind you feel in your stomach when something exciting is about to happen. Like the moments before you say, I do.
Finding the dress, choosing the flowers, picking the music. Every little detail brings you that much closer to the day when you'll promise to spend the rest of your life with the person you love.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:07)
She wanted her wedding to be perfect. When I mean perfect, I mean perfect.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:14)
For Marilyn McCown, known as Niqui, July 2001 was a season of love. At 28, she was just a month away from her wedding day, and she was excited about that.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:28)
Very excited, very excited.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:30)
Niqui had found the right man, and now she was making all the plans. The countdown had begun.
Except, Niqui never made it to the altar, because on July 22, 2001, she vanished.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:50)
She was my best friend, and just disappeared.

**Josh Mankiewicz** (2:55)
It has been more than two decades, but the people who love her have made a different kind of vow to never stop searching, because that's the thing about love. It doesn't end just because someone disappears.
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