A 7-year-old goes missing while on a family camping trip in 1973. Anonymous calls would be placed demanding a ransom, but, the trail would grow cold until exactly one year later when the kidnapper would call her mother to brag about taking her daughter.
Several resources were used in the research of this episodes including:
Documentary: The FBI Files, "Dark Woods", Season 5, Episode 13.
Articles:
Bible Verse May Have Spurred Meirhofer, The Daily Interlake, October 4, 1974
Small Town Terror by Joseph MacNamara for The New York Daily News, December 22, 1994
The Quality of Mercy by Antoinette Martin for The Detroit Free Press, August 21, 1994
Not Another Victim by Amy Linn for The Missoula Independent, November 5, 2015
Music Credits: Music from https://filmmusic.io"Floating Cities" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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