On an idyllic summer afternoon in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park,

Polly Melton disappeared into thin air while on a hike with her two friends.

Welcome back to Missing, I am Tim here today with Lance and Jen. How are you both doing today?

Doing wonderful, thanks Tim. Doing great as well because this disappearance has been on our radar

for a little while and I'm really happy that we're finally getting together to discuss it.

It's a familiar territory, so this one is one that again very excited to dig into, but before we

start doing that, Tim, you asked Jen how she was me, I'm doing great. How are you? I don't want

you to feel left out here. I don't. I'm feeling great as well. I'm excited to discuss the

disappearance of Thelma Polly Melton and we did speak with Laura Ristie who is an amazing researcher

and she's got her own website. It's CanadianGirl77.com and that's Girl with a U. You can check that out.

She has helped us on the series about Trinny Gibson's disappearance from the Great Smoky Mountains

National Park which is the same park that Polly Melton vanished from. This was right up her alley

because she had been digging into Trinny Gibson's disappearance for years and actually over almost

two decades now. We'll be hearing directly from Laura later, but make sure to listen to our series

on Trinny Gibson's disappearance and check out Laura's work at CanadianGirl77.com.

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