It was the summer of 1998, and America was preparing to celebrate Independence Day.

In the small, rural community of Helenville, Wisconsin, the Karnak family was looking forward to a relaxing 4th of July weekend at their cabin up north.

The cabin near Coloma was their retreat, a place where they could escape the every day and enjoy the

peace of the Wisconsin countryside. On Thursday, July 2nd, 55-year-old Alan Carnack, his wife

Donna, 52, and their younger son Thomas, 21, loaded up their dark navy blue Ford F-150 pickup truck.

Their Golden Cocker Spaniel Hunter jumped into the cab with them.

The drive to the cabin would take about two hours.

They planned to spend the long weekend fishing, relaxing, and celebrating the holiday.

It should have been an ordinary family getaway.

But Alan, Donna, Thomas, and Hunter never made it to the cabin.

They vanished without a trace. When the family failed to return home as scheduled, their eldest son,

29-year-old Andrew Carnac, reported them missing. But as investigators began to piece together the timeline of that

fateful day, they realized something was terribly wrong. The family's truck was found abandoned

and wiped clean. There were no signs of an accident, no indication of where the family might

have gone. This is the story of the vanishing of the Karnak family.

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