When Elkhart Detective Art Kern pulled up to the Herodine's home on Crabtree Lane at around 830 PM that night, he didn't know what to expect.

Sure, Ada's family was anxious, but this part of Elkhart was upscale, the kind of place

where neighbors knew each other and children played outside freely.

Crime, especially violent crime or abductions, seemed unlikely here. And as far as he could tell, based on

what he'd heard from her family, she hadn't been gone very long, just a few hours.

He probably thought this would all be sorted by morning if not sooner.

But little did Arkur know that this was only the beginning to one of the biggest mysteries of his career.

I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck investigates.

This is the deck investigates.

This is episode two.

No one saw a thing.

It's often.

It's often said that people disappear without a trace.

But as officers knocked on doors and canvassed the area,

they realized that Ada had left a trail of breadcrumbs a mile long that Wednesday.

Neighbors saw her out and about. crumbs a mile long that Wednesday.

Neighbors saw her out and about.

Fellow parents and teachers noticed her at the morning mass

at her son Jeff's parochial school,

and friends chatted with her at a YMCA luncheon.

So how could someone so visible just vanish from her own yard?

Just seems so out of whack.

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