On the night of December 4th, 2014, 19-year-old Jasmine Moody walked out of a house on Detroit’s east side. The windchill that night was near zero, with snow already on the ground. She was wearing a hoodie — nothing else. She left her cellphone inside. Her ID. Her purse. Her coat. She has never been […]
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Every morning, Shantieya Smith walked her daughter to school. In May 2018, she left home for what should have been a five-minute errand — and became one of at least four women to vanish from the same few blocks of Chicago’s West Side that spring. Shantieya Smith’s family called her “Nay Nay.” She was 26
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On the morning of February 19th, 2007, Ricarda Tillman-Lockett did what she always did. She dropped her eleven-month-old son Donnell at the babysitter’s, showed up for her shift at Jillian’s Restaurant in Peabody Place in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and was — by every account from everyone who worked alongside her — exactly where she was
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On the evening of April 15, 2004, a fifteen-year-old girl named Silene Yasmin Eaddy slipped out of her home on Fountain Lake Road in Columbia, South Carolina. Her neighbor saw her go and called out. Erica — as her family and friends knew her — didn’t stop. She said she was heading to visit someone
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On the morning of June 14, 2012, a fourteen-year-old girl named Brittany Shante Robinson ran back to her mother for one more goodbye kiss before heading off for a weekend visit with her father. “Love you, mom. See you later,” she said. She never came back. Brittany was the kind of kid people noticed —
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On the day before Thanksgiving 2020, a 39-year-old woman named Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis sent a text message. She was walking east on Fire Trail Road on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State, headed toward a church where someone had agreed to pick her up and drive her to Oso — a small town about thirty
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On January 7, 2020, a 29-year-old mother of two was found lying face down in a frozen cornfield on the Omaha Reservation in Macy, Nebraska. She had no clothes. No shoes. No socks. Her sister was the one who found her — saw her black hair blowing in the wind near the tree line by
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On the morning of June 23, 2021, twenty-four-year-old geologist Daniel Robinson left his worksite near Sun Valley Parkway and Cactus Road in Buckeye, Arizona. A coworker — someone Daniel had only just met that day — said Daniel waved goodbye, climbed into his blue-gray 2017 Jeep Renegade, and drove off into the Sonoran Desert. He
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