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On January 4, 2001, a Seattle-area realtor named Mike Emert accompanied a mysterious prospective buyer to a private showing of a home for sale, but never made it out alive. Nearly a decade later, a seemingly unrelated home invasion would link someone to Mike's murder, and proceed to send the police down an investigative rabbit hole that intersects with a multitude of other unsolved cases.

On the morning of January 25, 2019, 29-year-old Tomball, TX resident Liz Barraza got an early start setting up a garage sale in her driveway to earn extra spending money for an upcoming trip celebrating her 5th wedding anniversary. Before long, a truck pulled up and parked nearby. An armed assailant in disguise approached Liz and fired four shots before fleeing. The case remains unsolved to this day.

In June 2014, married couple Derek and Maria Broaddus purchased their dream home in Westfield, NJ, eager to move in along with their three children. Before long, however, they began to receive disturbing letters containing violent threats from an unknown stalker who claimed to be watching them and knew intimate details of their lives.

On July 18, 2007, 55-year-old Barbara Bolick and her hiking partner, Jim, traversed Barbara’s favorite hiking trail leading out to Bear Creek Overlook near Victor, MT. After taking in the scenic view of Bitterroot National Forest, the pair started heading back.Jim, who had never hiked this trail, decided to stop and look back at the breathtaking view one last time. Less than a minute later, he turned around to catch up to Barbara, but she was gone. After an extensive search by law enforcement both on the ground and from the air, no trace of Barbara Bolick has ever been found.

When 29-year-old Keith Dardeen failed to show up for his shift at work on November 18, 1987, and calls to the family’s Ina, IL home went unanswered, his concerned father finally contacted the police to request a welfare check. What they found inside the house would haunt the community for decades to come, and the case remains unsolved to this day.

On May 8, 2008, 18-year-old Josh Maddux left his family's Woodland Park, CO, home to go for a walk, but never returned. Seven years later, a shocking discovery was made in the case, one that led to more questions than answers.

On Tuesday, September 23, 1986, a heated love triangle between a married couple and the husband's mistress would reach an explosive and violent conclusion, leaving one of them dead and another having vanished into thin air.