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Imagine celebrating the life of your only child and not having his body to grieve over.

Imagine unable to put closer to his personal affairs because there is no body to obtain a death certificate.

Or his children three years later with no death benefits for the same reason.

Nobody, no death certificate.

On the rainy night of May 17, 2020, in the quiet town of Kenosha, Wisconsin, 40-year-old Rosalio Gutierrez Jr. found himself immersed in a flurry of text messages.

He'd been single for a while and had been going on dates.

But there was one woman in particular who'd caught his attention, a woman named Sadie Peachum.

Every night Rosalio would text Sadie Goodnight, but that night his text never came.

Maybe he was ghost in her or perhaps more innocently, something had just distracted him.

She had no way of knowing that in reality Rosalio was actually tied up with something completely unexpected and from that point on, not only would she never hear from Rosalio again, no one would.

Join me now as we unravel the disappearance of Rosalio Gutierrez Jr.

You'll learn how one of his new relationships was being monitored by a jealous ex-boyfriend who seemed to want to keep his former flame all to himself.

Way back in the mid-17th century, in Chipping Camden, England, 70-year-old William Harris disappeared completely during a two-mile walk.

When his servant went out looking for him, he eventually discovered some of William's clothes on the road.

They'd been slashed and were stained with blood. But as for William himself, there was no trace.

The servant reported to authorities that William had been killed for his money and his body had been dumped into a pond, claiming his own mother and brother were the culprits.

Although William's body was never found, the servant and his family were all convicted for William's murder and sentenced to death by hanging.

And that should have been the end of the story, but it wasn't.

Two years after he disappeared, William Harris suddenly reappeared with a wild tale about being kidnapped by bandits and sold into Turkish slavery before bravely escaping and making his way back to England.

Obviously, this meant that the execution of the servant and his family had been a grave miscarriage of justice.

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