i did, yes. we started getting people following our page. where was she? what was behind this? far from home early. i saw the tattoo and i said, that s her tattoo, isn t it? and three caught on camera clues. someone s in her car. someone s at her back. but, most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up onstage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing and seeing. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even alive? here is andrea canning and without a trace. it is a sad fact of american life, family separated from their loved ones, gone without a trace. nationwide, there are almost 100,000 act
whole community. it hit her town like a lightning bolt. the strange disappearance of carrie olson. it was scary. everyone loved carrie. it was so painful. you reach out to dateline. i did, yes. we saw young people following our page. where was she? what was behind this? far from home, a lead. i saw the tattoo, and i said, that s your tattoo, isn t it? and three caught-on-camera clues. someone is in her car. someone is at her bank. but most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up on stage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing. insane. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even a
that s your tattoo, isn t it? and three caught on camera clues. someone is in her car. someone is at her bank. but most jaw-dropping of all, someone is up on stage with a song turned sinister. i couldn t believe what i was hearing. insane. could karaoke be a key to this case? my heart was pounding and pounding. i was sweaty and nervous. we need to figure this out, fast. hello, and welcome to dateline. 29 year old carrie olson was the girl next door, bubbly and bright, with close friends and a new man in her life. she had everything ahead of her, and then she vanished. had she just walked away, or did someone take her? was she even alive? here is andrea canning and without a trace. it is a sad fact of american life, family separated from their loved ones, gone without a trace. nationwide, there are almost 100,000 active missing person cases. since december 2013, dateline s online missing america series has been telling some of those heartbreaking stories. one of th
lead. carrie s family was growing increasingly desperate. they want to do something, anything. when they reached out to dennis harker off the quad cities missing persons network, sadly, he knew just what to do. it is traumatic. i mean, it s just the crisis, and it is overwhelming. his own son went missing just a few months earlier. you find yourself being tireless, and you can t sleep anyway, you might as well be doing something. dennis offered suggestions and organization to help find carry, and keep her story public. it was a remarkable effort, a reward was offered, a prayer vigil became a moment of peace and faith. and of course, there were endless searches. dennis led one at the mississippi river, where his son s body had been found. the mississippi tends to collect a lot of people that go missing. amanda was with dennis for one of his river searches. maybe she had drowned, or been dumped in the river. so, we started looking around the river. and i was giving up everyth
one of his river searches. maybe she had drowned, or been dumped in the river. so, we started looking around the river. and i was giving up everything looking for her. i had to do something for her. she would have done it for me. sarah paxton was searching too. she remembers the frustration of dredging through a huge part, covered with fresh blanket of snow. every search, i felt smaller and smaller, and the world felt bigger and bigger. she was one of my closest friends. loved her dearly. it just felt like a needle in the haystack. a needle in the haystack, but carrie s friends and family would not stop looking or hoping. dozens of tips came in from strangers, well-wishers, even psychics. but it would be something much closer to home that would finally lead to the first clues about what s really happened. coming up