Enter the a team. Private eyes. There had been a brief encounter with a mysterious stranger. On the train coming home. She met this woman. Did that hold the answer . She is talking about how someone has tried to assume her identity. A chilling case of a daughter in danger. Strangers on a train. Hello and welcome to date line extra. She was beautiful. Talented and trusting and sometimes troubled. A young woman from a prem innoce prominent family. When the police were unable to find her. Her family hatched a plan. To solve the mystery. Heres keith morris son. It began in the great morning
A young woman disappears, and a chance encounter with a stranger on a train may hold some answers. Visa. A Paperwork Mixup sort of thing that would have sent her into a tailspin once, but now, the new kate vowed to try again later. Boarded the palmetto for charleston and once home threw herself into College Classes and a Childrens Book shed been writing. Big brother joe was, to say the least, encouraged
i never met ethan, didn t know ethan s last name. all i knew was the name ethan who was a friend. it s too strong to say that she had a secret life, but she certainly had friends and did things that we didn t know anything about. of course she did. she was 28 years old. and even though she was financially and emotionally dependent on her parents, she had lots of friends. some they knew, some they didn t. it was howard gatts, for example, a martial arts trainer in the midst of a contentious divorce with whom kate had been carrying on something of a romance. i felt that in my heart something was wrong. and i was i was concerned. then there was jason locke, a young lawyer with whom she often shared lunch and a spirited debate. she was strong-willed. she was very energetic. she was rarely, rarely incorrect.
from kate s friend jason locke, capps retrieved the weird voicemail left that evening. 10:06 p.m., missed call. voicemail. voicemail said that someone had stolen her identity, and had obtained a couple of credit cards in her name. she wanted me to sue the person responsible. the gym trainer and kate s romantic interest, howard gatts, told capps he heard from her about 10:30 p.m., still at dinner with ethan then. there was another call. it was after midnight. well after police believe she was dropped off at him. she told me she was at some friend s house. they had already made it to the house. she sounded a little buzzed. and then a very last message from kate. a text. very strange. i m off to greenville to pick up some lovely. whatever lovely was i had no
that s a her best friend, as she made clear to all the others, was ethan mack. she really liked ethan. she really trusted him. this is my best friend, jason. she put a lot of trust in him. she s a lovable person, full of energy, always rambunctious. ethan worked in a local hotel. a very different background than kate. but he d been her best buddy for years and in a way her protector. everybody in ethan s neighborhood knew you didn t mess with kate when ethan was around. they loved each other like well, siblings. i made sure no harm would come to her when certain little boyfriends would act like they got hand problems. i would put them in their place it wasn t a romance at all then? never at all. she was like a little sister to me. it was a token of his family s regard for kate that she was godmother to ethan s nephew, malachi. on her moscow trip, kate bought herself and ethan matching brass
he sat there for a bit, looked around. the russian notes in kate s handwriting made sense, but why chinese paper money? and why was her brand-new prescription sitting there untouched? the medication in which she had gotten for a prescription was still on her dresser, unused. that medication was her lifeline. she needed it to counter depression, anxiety, insomnia. she never left home without it. meanwhile, cyber-sleuth bill capps buried himself in social media sites. kate used them. bill scoured them all. if she was awake, she was facebooking, she was texting, she was calling people on the phone, she was e-mailing. and at the time she went missing, when everything immediately ceased, i mean, that was completely out of character for her. using kate s friends, capps built an electronic map of her communications the friday night she vanished. from kate s friend jason locke,