What price would you pay for ultimate freedom?

Would you work on a pot farm in the mountains of California?

Would you take LSD for days on end?

And if your boss took everything from you,

would that justify murder?

Chances are you've never had to ask yourself these questions.

But I know someone who has.

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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 Macino 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 Macino and maybe her daughters had been victims of foul play.

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