“My Ten-Year-Old Daughter Hadn’t Answered My Calls For Three Days, So I Rushed To Her Mother’s House And Found Her Locked Inside A Metal Enclosure In The Backyard. After I Broke The Lock And Pulled Her Into My Arms, She Stared At The Murky Swimming Pool And Whispered, ‘Daddy, Please Don’t Look.’ Beneath The Green Water, I Could See Several Black Bags.”

Sarah was freed and Jason vanished. Investigators found falsified documents giving Emily a different birth date and a prepared bedroom in a rented house in Maine — the outline of a plan to take her somewhere no one would look. They also found, tucked among Sarah’s belongings, an old photograph of my late father standing beside a man named Nathan Cole,continue reading …