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On November 16, 2004, 41-year-old Cana Rinka Simianoska contacted the local police station

in Kichivo, a small city located in Western Macedonia, to report her mother Mitra to be missing.

The 64-year-old retired cleaner and housekeeper had left her home earlier that day for a trip

to the market and hadn't been seen since. Cana Rinka originally thought her mother may

have gone to visit some family members after going to the market, but as time passed

and Mitra failed to return home, her daughter's worry increased. In inspection of Mitra's

house showed no signs of forced entry or anything to suggest the struggle had taken place,

and there were no other clues to indicate where she may have gone. Cana Rinka pressed

the Kichivo police chief to launch an investigation into her mother's disappearance, but she was

met with reluctance and a none-nerving sense that the police viewed her with suspicion.

When they asked her to pay them money to conduct an investigation, a frustrated Cana Rinka

sought help elsewhere. She walked 100 metres down the road from her mother's home to the

house belonging to renowned freelance journalist, Volato Tarneski. As the primary national

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