There is no way you could look at this and say, this is a person who ran away. The mystery had this sinister side to it. Oh my god, this is really happening. It is happening right now. In the dark waters off miami, miles out to sea, a federal agent hunting for Drug Smugglers spots a suspicious boat. I noticed the Passenger Role a large duffel bag off the side of the boat. Drugs . The agents never found any, and back on shore, no one could find a missing young mother, either. Was there a connection . Lynne was just months away from her wedding when she vanished, leaving behind a young son and mystery. Any sign that someone had broken and ended up abducted her . No. The search continued on land and at sea. No bag, nobody, no case. I did not have anything that would show she was actually dead. Decades go by and the mystery is almost forgotten, but not by everyone. They knew he was the bad guy. They just could not put him in jail. All they needed was a miracle, or a witness. Hello, and wel
remembers in his life. i am mom and he calls me mom. he understands i am not his biological mother. what kind of dad was cliff to christian? he was a great dad. they went and played ball together. they went fishing together. they went on travels together. cliff is a phenomenal father. meanwhile, up in tennessee, lynne s one-time fiance ed o dell, had moved on with his life, too. married now with children. the dwindling friends of lynne thought they would never see a resolution to the case of the missing woman. but there was one person in particular who didn t like to see the dusty jacket of unsolved cases in his files. in 2010 one of miami s most experienced prosecutors, michael von zamft, took over the case along with assistant state attorney mari mato. what did you think the biggest problem with the case was?
In the summer of 1994, Lynne Friend, a 35-year-old divorced hospital administrator, was about to embark on a fresh start. She and her 5-year-old son, Christian, were moving from southeastern Florida to Tennessee, where she and her fiancé, Ed O’Dell, planned to marry.
Those plans never came to be.
At the end of August 1994, just days before she was set to leave Hallandale Beach, about 15 miles from Miami, Lynne vanished without a trace. Increasingly desperate phone messages from loved ones including O’Dell and Esther Sanchez, the maid of honor at Lynne’s wedding in 1988 to ex-husband Clifford Friend, went unanswered.