Argus, Indiana is small. More cornstocks than people in 1984.

It's one of those places where neighbor means something different. Everyone's your neighbor,

but each house is a corn or soybean field away. The home of the Holes family was just like

that. Tucked away off a major road through town with fields to the front and back. Ron Holes

built the home himself for his wife, Darleen, and their three daughters. He picked the spot because

his parents and his siblings also had plots of land and homes nearby. It was an idyllic Midwest

life. Ron's dad would sometimes pedal his bike the quarter of a mile over from his house to theirs

in the mornings after Ron left for work to say hi to his grandkids. In fact, he did just that on

August 17, 1984. Besides him, there weren't many other pop-in visitors. But that morning,

after he left, there was another knock at the door. The two older girls who were six and

eight only heard bits of what was happening from where they were in the bathtub. But what they

heard was strange, growling and grunting, low and guttural. When they left the tub, what they found

was a man, knelt over their mother trying to tape her eyes and mouth shut.

I remember her saying, don't hurt my babies. And she was screaming like blood-curdling screams while

she was fighting. So there were grunts and it was just like surreal. It was completely surreal.

I just remember him coming towards me and me thinking, he's going to get me now. He's going to get me.

And I think that's when she said to run, run, run. When the girls ran out the front door,

they had no idea that would be the last time they'd see their mother.

28-year-old Darleen Hulse was abducted from her home just yesterday. But the search for her ended

here in this patch of woods just six miles from her home. The mother of three was found dead.

And while investigators haven't released a cause of death, they're calling this a homicide.

And a man hunt is underway.

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