People can't just disappear.

I think that's what makes missing person cases so frustrating.

The idea that the person you're looking for is out there and you just can't find them.

The not knowing what happened must be so upsetting.

In 1994, 37-year-old Lucy Massino and her two teenage daughters went missing.

It was like they had just vanished from their apartment in Downey, California.

It was unlikely that Lucy would leave her husband and two younger children behind and disappear with her teenage daughters.

That, plus the signs indicating a struggle in the apartment, made it likely Lucy Messino and maybe her daughters had been victims of foul play.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

I'm Brooke, and here's the distinctive Bill Curtis with a classic case, Daddy Dearest.

I came to this location on a follow-up on a missing persons report.

Detective John Lynch is looking for three people.

The mention of a missing mother and her two teenage daughters who had basically fallen

off the face of the earth.

37-year-old Lucy Mussino and her daughter, Edith and Gabriela were reported missing by a friend the day after

Thanksgiving.

And this was the last location that they were known to be at.

Detective Lynch enters Bucino's apartment and finds it empty, except for a few small

signs of foul play.

In checking the carpet, I noticed a brownish red, which potentially could have been blood.

I then noticed around the baseboards, around the door, and the floorboard area there were what appeared to be blood spatter marks.

Detectives saw or noticed a very large red-brown stain.

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