John Douglas, the mind hunter, shares the story of Sherri Smith, who was abducted from her front yard just before graduating high school, and another girl named Deborah Helmick, who was also taken. The investigators were always one step behind the abductor until one mistake led to his capture.
A man finished work on a feeder for his neighbor's farm, but no one answered the door when he went to tell them. He noticed the dog was now outside and the barn doors were open, so he went to investigate with his friend Lorenz.
John Paul Clark, who had been arrested for assaulting a 17-year-old girl with a fireplace poker, escaped jail and killed Darlene Novinger with the same weapon. The police connected the dots and arrested him for the murder.
Ray Gricar, a former district attorney, went missing in 2005 and his whereabouts remain unknown. Suspicion points towards a local farmer named Harold Henthorn, who was seen wearing belongings of another missing man, Andrew Slade, and in possession of an antique watch belonging to yet another man who went missing over a century ago.
Eric needed powerful evidence to have another day in court and after more than a decade of trying, some of his requests for documents in his case began trickling in.