Family and friends are frantic when 42-year-old Jeanine Harms goes out on a date and disappears into thin air. Though her apartment shows no outward signs of a struggle, her friends notice that some items are missing, including a Persian rug.
Employees at a West Virginia security company are shocked when their boss, Tod McQuaid, radios a bewildering SOS: he’s been shot and left for dead in the Appalachian Mountains.
Nancy Manni’s lifeless body is found floating in Chesapeake Bay; the Maryland Natural Resources Police catch the case. A fulltime student at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship she wouldn’t think twice if a stranger offered her a sunset boat ride.
In 1974 the Riverside neighborhood of Buffalo, NY, is known for its hard working, and hard-partying, citizens. Twenty-seven-year-old Barbara Lloyd is a married mother of two, and a well-known member of the party crowd.
On June 10, 1997, Carla Larson, 30, drives off her construction site to get some lunch and never comes back. Two days later, the all-American wife and mother is discovered naked, badly decomposed, raped, and strangled to death in a Florida swamp.
In Lynwood, Washington, 1979, Bill Hassler returns home to find his high school sweetheart, 24-year-old Susan Schwarz, naked under a towel, hands bound, and shot three times in the head.
November 2, 1989 - Woodbury, Minnesota. Quiet employee Sharon Bloom leaves work for lunch, never to be seen alive again. Ten days later, she is discovered to be the victim of a gruesome attack.
September 4, 1980 - Thornton, Colorado. Fifteen-year-old Nanine Grimes is home alone, listening to music, and doing schoolwork. Within hours, Nanine is found murdered, stabbed 86 times, and left in five inches of bloody water.
October 31, 1994 - Chicago, IL. Twenty-nine-year-old Renee Rondeau heads home from the gym on a cold, rainy Halloween; her favorite night of the year. The next day, her superintendent finds Renee on her bathroom floor, strangled with a leather belt.
December 26, 2000 - Cassia County, Idaho. Kacy Kay Ray leaves her parents’ home after celebrating Christmas and vanishes. Days later, her frozen body is found in a field bludgeoned and stabbed, the victim of a gruesome rape.