Claudia Kirshok wasn't your typical backpacker, stumbling through foreign countries with nothing

but a guidebook and good intentions.

She was a professional travel rider, who would turn wonderlust into a career, methodical,

experienced, and living exactly the life she'd always dreamed of.

The kind of person who could navigate visa complications and flight delays with the

common efficiency that comes from years on the road. Claudia was someone who always had a plan,

who stayed in contact with family, who understood that being a solo female traveler meant

being smart about safety. Her parents knew her patterns well. Claudia was organized, reliable, the type

it would never just disappear without letting someone know where she was going. That's what

made her vanishing in Jamaica so unsettling. For over 20 years, her family has been left with

the haunting certainty that their daughter didn't just wander off

into the sunset.

Something happened to Claudia, and someone knows what it was.

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their families, and loved ones. In May 2000, 29-year-old Claudia Kirschok boarded a plane

bound for Havana, Cuba. But she wasn't on vacation. As an assistant editor at

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