His partner, who still hadn’t offered a name, which Carmemella had stopped finding coincidental and started finding informative, moved to stand with his back against…

In 1992, the Witmore family, Thomas, his wife Claire, and their twin daughters Emma and Sophie, vanished without a trace from a lakeside birthday celebration…
Samuel Finch had drugged the Whitmore family somehow, probably at the party itself, though proving that now would be impossible. When they’d walked to their…

On a sweltering August night in 1996, five cousins gathered at their grandmother’s farmhouse in rural Nebraska for what should have been an ordinary family…
When she was 16, she found my journals, the ones where I’d written about the family legacy. I thought I’d convinced her it was all…

In 1998, a father and his 12-year-old son boarded a flight from Seattle to Boston on Christmas Eve. Their boarding passes scanned, their seats confirmed.…
Fire trucks and ambulances converged immediately while armed FBI agents took positions around the plane. She had made the 2 and 1/2 hour drive to…
Elena stared at her daughter’s face, at the ghost of the child she’d raised, and felt something shift inside her. The grief was still there,…

In 1991, a 7-year-old girl and her father disappeared without a trace during a cross-country road trip through the Pacific Northwest, leaving behind a devastated…

In the summer of 1983, seven children vanished without a trace from Camp Whispering Pines in Washington State. For 41 years, their disappearance remained one…
