Some roads don't look dangerous.

They don't look like a place where a girl can disappear. They look ordinary. Two lanes of

blacktop, cornfield stitches, telephone poles, weeds along the shoulder, a bridge over dark

water, the kind of road people drive every day and never think twice. Route 116 near London Mills, Illinois was one of those roads.

In July of 1983, a 17-year-old girl named Kimberly Don McClaskey was trying to get home. She was from

Canton, Illinois. She was small, shy, and pregnant, seven or eight months along, depending on which

report you read. Far enough that her family had baby clothes ready.

Far enough that it wasn't some future idea anymore.

The baby was coming.

Kimberly had been visiting relatives in London Mills.

Then she left her return home to Canton.

12 miles, that was all.

One hot summer day, one rural road, one pregnant teenager

trying to make it back home. And then she vanished. Not in a city. Not at night. Not in

someplace people already feared. She vanished in broad daylight in the rural Fulton County.

The next thing the world gave back was not Kimberly.

Here was her clothing, her personal belongings, photographs, one shoe, a purse,

items found in and a long Spoon River near Indian Ford Bridge south of London Mills.

Some were on the bank, some were floating in the water.

But there was no Kimberly, no body, no

baby, no answers, just a river, a road, and a mother whose life had just been ripped apart.

This is American Dread, true stories of tragedy and terror from the dark side of American

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