Episodes

On Sunday morning, August 12, 1984, thirteen-year-old Eugene Wade Martin left his home in Des Moines, Iowa, to deliver the Sunday paper. He was five days away from his fourteenth birthday. He was saving money for the fair and a bicycle. But somewhere along the way, Eugene's paper route stopped. His newspapers were found. But Eugene was gone. Less than two years earlier, another Des Moines Register carrier, Johnny Gosch, had vanished from his own Sunday morning route. So when Eugene disappeare...

On the first day of summer break in 1983, 12-year-old Ann Gotlib rides her bike home through the parking lot of Bashford Manor Mall in Louisville, Kentuky, then vanishes. Her bicycle is later found outside a department store. But Ann is gone. In the days that follow, witnesses report seeing a man dragging a young girl near a field and drainage ditch not far from the mall. Police release a composite sketch. Search teams comb through woods, creeks, and shoulder-high grass. And investigators beg...

Jennifer Marteliz was seven years old when she disappeared while walking home from school in Tampa, Florida, on November 15, 1982. She was only blocks from home. Witnesses later described seeing Jennifer upset near a crossing guard and possibly near a rust-colored car shortly before she vanished. What should have been an ordinary walk home became one of Florida's most haunting unsolved child disappearance cases. In Episode 3 of SEQUESTERED Season Four, Sara Reid reconstructs Jennifer's final kn...

In September of 1981, the Oklahoma State Fair was in full swing; bright lights, crowded walkways, and the kind of place where parents felt safe letting their kids roam free. That's where 13-year-old friends Charlotte Kinsey and Cinda Pallett were last seen. After being offered what seemed like a harmless job unloading stuffed animals, the girls left the fairgrounds with a man they didn't know. They even called home to tell their parents about the job, and were told to call back later to arrange ...

In April 1980, fourteen-year-old Laureen Rahn vanished from her home in Manchester, New Hampshire. There were no signs of a struggle. No witnesses. No clear explanation for how a teenager could disappear from a third-floor apartment in the middle of the night. In the hours that followed, investigators were left with only a handful of details - a friend asleep inside, an open back door, and a timeline that stopped at the moment Laureen moved from her bed to the couch. Months later, a series of...

Missing Persons Cases of the 1980's The 1980s felt wide open. Kids rode their bikes for miles without anyone worrying. The rule was simple: be home when the streetlights came on. It was the decade of roller rinks and mall food courts… Cassette tapes and bedroom posters… Whitney Houston and Bon Jovi blasting from the radio. Life moved at a different pace. A little unsupervised. A little innocent. But beneath that nostalgia sits a quieter truth. Because during those same ordinary nights and r...