that the wife had been murdered in the pisgah national forest. dennis murphy (voiceover): that detective was working an unsolved case that had cops in north carolina bewildered. david mahoney, a sheriff of transylvania county, a beautiful place with an ominous name that has nothing to do with fangs dripping blood. we have some wonderful attractions here. all of those things, along with the slower pace of life, is what brings folks and keeps folks here. dennis murphy (voiceover): folks like john and irene bryant, who, after raising a family, retired here, far from the brutal winters of upstate new york and close to the hiking trails they loved. holly bryant is the youngest of their four children. they love the outdoors. when they were first married, they used to go out hiking in the mountains. they would take us hiking. and as they got older, they d take the grandchildren out hiking, too. dennis murphy (voiceover): the bryants had a lifetime of outdoors experience, had hiked all over th
planned to come back. and she had left her medicine. she never went anywhere without her medicine. and on sunday, we came by the house also. no sign of her. now there was dred. was it possible that kate had slipped back into that old destructive life? we called police station. we called the detention center. wow, and this is by the end of the weekend? nobody had a jane doe in the hospital. nobody had been brought in. we called some of her friends, and nobody had heard from her. what to do? kate was 28, and though she lived at home, she was an adult her decision bad or good. for hers, they elected to give it one more day if she wasn t back by monday they called the police. then, when monday came, there was word.
all day long, trying to find her. that s when it hit home. kate was the latest of hundreds of people still lost in south carolina, and it seemed to china s and tom police weren t taking cases like theirs seriously. what about all those other families also desperate for help? the waring held a vigil for common cause. somehow or another, someone will be moved and will want to come forward and tell us where katie is. that was the public waring family. at home the private tom waring couldn t be help but be drawn to the play back on their voice mail to hear her voice. that, don please pick up the phone. coming back later. i would look at photographs of her, or play those voice mail messages, just keeping her voice current in my mind. meanwhile, andy savage a-team detectives were making progress. when i flash that grocery bag of cash around the neighborhood, they certainly got a rise out of ethan and heather. a furious ethan called andy. your investigators are out there in accu
i m craig melvin. and i m craig melvin and and then, poof, they re going to be hunted down. dennis murphy (voiceover): then, decades later, something truly frightening. it was happening for real a strange vanishing in the forest. immediately, we knew something was wrong. dennis murphy (voiceover): then your heart just broke. dennis murphy (voiceover): cheryl, then meredith, two women missing and two desperate efforts to find them. she could be alive, and we just can t let up. dennis murphy (voiceover): could this old movie hold the key to these new cases? a little blood, a little sex, a little violence. dennis murphy (voiceover): a film fantasy turns chilling reality. if someone has her, she s afraid. dennis murphy (voiceover): who could be behind this? and how would this real life story end? she was a blue belt in judo. if anybody could survive it, it was meredith. if anybody could fight, it was meredith.
and justice? well. we shall see. coming up. they thought they solved the case. but what it stick? frankly. we did not have a lot of evidence. we had a lot of opinions, and we had a lot of conjecture. moïse but actual evidence? it just was not there. and the close call that just might have saved kate waring life. i always feel if i could ve hung on one more month. i could ve helped her. when dateline continues. almost everybody in charleston, south carolina knows who the county solicitor is. scarlett they call her.