Patricia Viola, forty-two years old, had built the life she’d always envisioned: two cherished children and a secure, loving marriage. On February 13th, 2001, Patricia rose with the dawn, prepared her children for school, and then offered h…

On the Sunday following Thanksgiving in 2007, Mandy Stokes left her apartment to run a few errands. When she hadn’t returned by the next morning, friends and family initially held little worry, but Mandy’s mother sensed something was amiss.…

Leah Peebles had recently relocated from her parents' home in Texas to Albuquerque, New Mexico, seeking a new beginning after years battling drug addiction. Despite coming from a close and supportive family, Leah had sought solace in drugs …

Amber Gerweck juggled the demands of raising four children with a full-time contract for the Department of Homeland Security, until abruptly she ceased attending work. Police investigated her apartment, but found no trace of Amber, and unse…

Colleen Orsborn vanished after an unscheduled trip to the beach, skipping school for the day. Though the spirited and outspoken teenager occasionally clashed with her mother, she typically left a note indicating her whereabouts and always r…

Jerry Michael Williams was a successful businessman in Tallahassee when he embarked on a solitary duck-hunting trip to Lake Seminole and vanished. Searchers located his truck, his boat, and his shotgun near the shore, but Mike himself remai…

Brianna Maitland, seventeen years old, found life on her parents’ isolated farm stifling, so in the autumn of 2004 she switched high schools to be closer to her friends. However, this arrangement proved brief, and soon Brianna left school a…

Lily Aramburo, a young mother struggling with addiction and recently engaged to Christen Pacheco, found herself drawn back into old patterns. She entered rehabilitation but was dismissed after failing a drug test. The following morning, hav…

Tina McQuaig was a twenty-seven-year-old wife and mother. On the evening of March 15th, 2000, after finishing her shift at the hospital, she phoned her babysitter to explain that she would be stopping at the grocery store on her way home. T…

Following a night of severe abdominal pain that led to a hospital visit, twenty-two-year-old Jamie Fraley failed to keep an important appointment and vanished without a trace. She appeared contentedly anticipating the imminent release of he…

Nineteen-year-old Ginni Wood set out on a 1500-mile spring break road trip from North Carolina to Texas, intending to visit her best friend Kelly Gaskins. After calling her mother upon arrival, Wood vanished along with Gaskins and her boyfr…

Susan Walsh doesn't fit the mold of a New Jersey mother. By day, she contributes to the Village Voice and studies writing at New York University. At night, she dances in go-go bars, striving to balance financial hardship with her ambition t…

When Terrance Williams disappeared after a work gathering, his mother rallied the entire family to join the search. They discovered his Cadillac at a local towing company's yard; it had been removed from a cemetery the morning following the…

Jackie Markham, a spirited manager of a trucking company, disappeared after collecting a prescription near her home. Those who knew her – friends, family – were convinced that the fifty-one-year-old, devoted to both her career and her belov…

A woman recently rebuilding her life from addiction has disappeared in Monte Vista, Colorado. Is she struggling under the weight of her recovery, or has something more sinister occurred?

Allison Jackson-Foy, a mother of two, disappeared after leaving a bar following an evening out with a dear friend; she has not been seen or heard from since.

Margaret Haddican McEnroe is known to local police as a firefighter—a woman with a passionate nature tempered by strong maternal instincts. When she disappears from her home, leaving her infant daughter alone in her crib, authorities, frien…

In August 2010, Noah Pippin, a thirty-one-year-old former Marine, departed from his parents' home in Lake Ann, Michigan, intending to report for drills with the California National Guard. Yet, Pippin never arrived. Investigators followed a …

Driven by a desire for a new beginning, Clinton Nelson journeyed to Louisiana, intent on meeting his biological father and finding work in the oilfields. The twenty-year-old sought a clean slate. Yet, six months later, search parties scoure…

**Lost: A Daughter Vanishes** Joey Lynn Offutt, mother to three young children, has disappeared following a dispute with her intermittently present boyfriend. Has she harbored resentment, or been consumed by the demands of motherhood and…

In August of 2010, diver Ben McDaniel entered "the Vortex," a place he knew well, yet this time he vanished without a trace. Despite exhaustive searches, rescue divers remain certain they cannot locate him; the question then becomes, where …

Suzy Lyall simply vanished after finishing her late-night shift, and never made it back to her dormitory. Was it possible she was still somewhere nearby, within reach of the campus grounds?

At fourteen, Chioma Gray found herself drawn into a connection with a considerably older young man, Andrew Tafoya. Despite her mother’s disapproval, she persisted in meeting with him, and their involvement deepened along a troubling course.

An escort, Shannan Gilbert, fled a client’s home, her screams swallowed by the night as she vanished into the shadows. A police search party plunged into the dense undergrowth, and what they uncovered concealed within the thicket ignited an…

In January 2000, eighteen-year-old Zebb Quinn, quiet and reserved, left his job at the local Wal-Mart with a friend to inspect a car for sale on the other side of town. Soon, his mother noticed he was no longer answering her calls. A police…

At thirty-eight, Dana Pastoria had painstakingly gathered enough money—earned from reading tarot cards and working behind a deli counter—to leave New Orleans, write her memoir, and fight for custody of her two daughters, whom she adored. Sh…

William "Billy" McGrath, a self-made millionaire who’d built a thriving business in Arizona real estate, had always been meticulous. Now, his sudden cancellation of a meeting with his financial advisor, coupled with an unsettling impersonat…