A suburban nightmare. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town.

On October 13, 1982, Stacey Parman and other locals went to the house of the Salomon family,

a well-liked social family on their street, noticing that the Salomon's pool had overflowed

and it was spilling into their yards. She and a group of concerned friends found a locked door,

cars in the driveway, and the family's cocker spaniel, Mishmish, hanging out in a soaking backyard.

It was a puzzling scene, but this was only the start to a 10-year nightmare, spanning Southern

California to London, spawning three trials and countless legal hearings exposing family

secrets and heartbreak. Today we're talking about the mysterious and unsolved disappearance of

the Salomon family. Looking in, the Salomons were a pretty normal, modern American family.

Elaine and Saul first met in 1971 at a bar in Hollywood, California. Elaine was a 28-year-old

divorcee with a four-year-old daughter, Michelle. Saul was a handsome 24-year-old Israeli immigrant

who had landed in Los Angeles a year earlier, driving a taxi and selling encyclopedias before

setting up a successful business refilling fire extinguishers. After they married and had their

son Mitch, they moved out of their recita condo to their home on Lassen Street, a quiet call to

sack in Northridge. Elaine worked as a volunteer counselor at a local clinic. The kids went to a good

school. They even had a family dog, a friendly spaniel named Mishmish. They continued to thrive.

The family had great clothes, a baby grand piano, Greek statues around their new pool,

and always bought the latest technology of the time, a large screen TV, VCRs, and cassettes.

They loved nice cars and sexy colors, including a canary yellow, continental mark B,

a midnight blue Mercedes-Benz, and a burgundy Rolls-Royce. Michelle was a typical boy-crazy teenage

girl who loved sleepovers and nice dinners. One of her favorite restaurants was on the rooftop

at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. On Tuesday, October 12, the family spent the

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