So, Maggie, our listeners did it.

You guys got us to 15 written reviews on iTunes.

Which made us super happy.

Yeah, we were texting each time one would come on, we were like, look, we got a review!

We're at 13, we're at 14.

So, without further ado, here is your bonus episode.

When an adult goes missing, the search takes a different approach.

We first question not whether something happened to them, but whether the person could

have simply chosen to leave of his or her own volition,

could the person have just had enough?

Or have they been escaping something?

But what makes these adult cases even more difficult is when you add other factors.

For example, if the missing person had previously run away,

sometimes in those cases, it's easy to assume that that is what happened again, to come up with

excuses and reasons. Additionally, when we add mental illness to the situation, similar assumptions are made.

There's a tendency to believe that the person left willingly, perhaps aware, or perhaps

unaware of what he or she was doing.

What we don't immediately believe is that someone has harmed the person.

And finally, when we add drugs and alcohol addiction into the mix, well, again, the public tends

to blame the missing person for his or her own disappearance.

We blame and we blame instead of questioning and questioning.

Our case today should lead us to question the details we know.

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