Böcker av Jessi Gomes

The morning of October 24, 1961, started just like any other day for the Risch family of Lincoln, Massachusetts...Martin Risch was up before dawn, preparing to leave for a business trip he'd arranged. The plan was to drive himself to Logan Airport and then catch an 8 a.m. flight to New York City, where he planned to stay the night in Manhattan. After her husband left the house, Joan Risch woke their two children and busied herself making their breakfast...Once the kids were fed, Joan took them across the street to the neighbour's house - Barbara Barker would look after her son David while she and her daughter Lillian drove the family's blue 1951 Chevrolet into Bedford, where Joan had scheduled an appointment with a dentist after hearing a glowing recommendation from Morton, a friend from college...later that day, Joan would disappear in what would be one of the strangest missing persons case in modern history.

Nothing was more important to 34 year old Paige Birgfeld than her family. She loved getting together with her three kids, her parents, and her siblings, and according to her father, Frank Birgfeld, the joy she felt in those moments was written all over her face."She would literally beam, she would radiate," he said. "Those were the absolute cherished times that she enjoys most."Which is why, when Paige suddenly disappeared on June 28, 2007, her family immediately suspected something terrible had happened to her.