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Queena Phu goes to her local library to return a book after hours; she's on her cell phone with her best friend, Rachel, who hears Queena scream and then the line goes dead; Rachel recalls driving to the scene and making a horrifying discovery.

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Queena Phu

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Justina Rucinski receives an email with the largest cookie request of her career; but when the customer arrives at her home to leave the deposit, Justina is brutally attacked and taken away at gunpoint; April recalls what happened to her best friend.

Justina Rucinski

When Becky Koster returns home from a night out, she texts her mother, Barbara, that she made it back safely; however, when Barbara arrived home hours later, Becky was nowhere to be found; Barbara recalls the gut-wrenching search for her daughter.

Becky Koster

In 2006, Elizabeth Shoaf was abducted near her rural home; the teenager was missing for over a week when a text message came through that infused hope into the case; the dark details of Elizabeth's frightening ordeal from those closest to her.

Elizabeth Shoaf

After TikTok influencer Nikki Kuhnhausen vanishes, her friends, family and transgender allies across Vancouver demand justice; Nikki's family describes the brave and beautiful 17-year-old and how the police uses Nikki's Snapchat account to find her.

Nikki Kuhnhausen

When Deserae Turner doesn't come home after school, her mother and friends begin texting her incessantly; a massive search ensues and 47 of her friends are questioned; her Snapchat turns out to be the key to the mystery.

Deserae Turner

Successful real estate agent Beverly Carter went missing after showing a home to potential buyers; later that evening, Beverly began texting her husband; how family and friends knew that Beverly was in danger.

Beverly Carter

April Millsap's mother recalls the day she asked her 14-year-old daughter, April, to text her when she got home from walking the dog; April never did; she sent a cryptic text to her boyfriend and disappeared.

April Millsap

Hannah Anderson's best friend knew something was wrong when Hannah stopped responding to her texts; no one knew that Hannah had been abducted by someone close to her; the amber alert system was used for the first time.

Hannah Anderson

The family of Kenia Monge share the agonizing details of what happened around the beautiful 19-year-old's disappearance; her father, sister and authorities explain how the texts in Kenia's cell phone were the impetus to finding her abductor.

Kenia Monge

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The cases of women who have been abducted, harmed or murdered are told through emotional interviews, re-creations, texts, phone records and other digital breadcrumbs that authorities used to solve the cases.

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