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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.