This episode contains stories involving violence against children.

Listener discretion is advised.

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

Thank you. is one of those rare stories. I had done a cannonball off the side of the pool,

and I accidentally ran into her.

So she was upset, and she had told me that she was going to go home and tell mom and dad and I was

going to get in trouble. It's July of 1974 in Prairie Village, Kansas. John Wilson is 11 years old.

His sister Elizabeth is 13. So I went out to the middle of the parking lot and I heard my name.

She called out my name John.

Turn around and looked and she was running my way.

John Wilson runs through the parking lot, docks around the corner of a local high school,

and waits for his sister.

I was going to jump out and scare her and try to make a last minute deal with her, not to tell mom and dad. And she never came by. Never came by.

With no sign of Liz, John runs the four blocks home and waits.

The minutes turn into hours with no sign of Liz.

Our rule was when the street lights come on,

you better be in your yard.

And we never once broke that rule.

And so we knew something was terribly wrong.

At 10 p.m., the Wilson's dial 911.

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