The 21-year-old nursing student had a complicated final week: a failed exam, a lie to her professors, a rented car, a tense call with her boyfriend, and a route north she never explained. The search that followed covered miles of wilderness and found nothing. Her father has spent twenty years demanding answers. A small town became the center of a case it never wanted.
Built from New Hampshire State Police statements, court records obtained under the state's Right to Know law, and news coverage from 2004 through the 2024 twentieth-anniversary search efforts. Every disputed claim is sourced. No living, uncharged person is named as guilty - no matter what the podcasts have already decided.