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Can people really just disappear without a trace? Just decide that they want a new life, take no money with them,

leave no trace of their new life for people in their old life to find. Now, how about a child?

Today's case is one that's talked about online, in forums and on social media, but rarely it makes the national press.

And in this episode, I want to try to find out why.

I'm Naomi Channel and this is real.

Thank you. Israel. Many of the cases I cover on Real are solved cases.

My deep dives are usually the unsolved cases.

But I'm going to break that pattern here because this case has really, really stuck with me. It's a missing person's case,

shrouded in mystery and I have become determined to just try to do something, even if that means

just putting out a podcast episode on her story. Because so many people need to know about this.

What's really struck me is just how many people do not know the name Ruth Wilson.

Ruth Wilson was born in Bettsworth, Surrey, in England, and she was born in January 1997.

Her father was Ian Wilson, and her mother was called Nestor.

She had a younger sister called Jennifer, who was born three years after Ruth in 1982.

That year was both a happy one and a life-changing one for the Wilson family.

The birth of Jennifer was a blessing, but it was also the year that Nestor died.

Ian explained to his daughters that Nestor, their mother, had had a terrible accident.

She'd fallen down some stairs and died as a result of her injuries.

Ruth was just three years old and her sister was a newborn baby.

Ian was now responsible for bringing up the two girls. Their village was small and the family were known by other locals.

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