Alice Crimmins was often criticized for her parenting due to her habit of keeping her children locked in their room and sleeping until the afternoon.
Alice wakes up one morning to find that her children are missing from their shared room with Eddie. Eddie denies knowing their whereabouts and encourages Alice to look outside.
Susan Powell disappears without a trace and police are called after she misses work and her children are not dropped off at daycare; police break into her house and find it empty.
Herb, a family man who runs three thrift stores, can't leave to go on vacations due to his responsibilities at the business. However, an unsettling detail in a documentary about the area catches the speaker's attention with the mention of 11 bodies found without their skulls.
The Mew brothers were taken in by various circuses and made their living performing as acrobats. When authorities became involved, the Mews family was able to win a court case and the circus was required to pay back the wages the brothers had earned over their 13 years of work, revealing the brothers had been involved in a complicated trafficking situation.