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I didn't understand that people go missing this way.

Not until you either, if you're in law enforcement or something like that, or if you actually

have it happen to someone you know, it's a very odd thing.

You don't know how to handle it.

I always say to people, you have no idea what it's like to lose a human being on your

watch.

It was a few minutes after 1 a.m. on June 28, 1997, and Wendy Oates' divorce was alone

in bed, waiting for her husband Gary to color back.

At the time, they lived in a small beach house on a windswept lane in Montecito, California,

about an hour north of L.A. Wendy's husband, Gary Divorr, was a screenwriter, known for

some of the biggest action films of the era, starring people like Tommy Lee Jones, Kurt

Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

He was driving home from a work trip that night.

Saturday, June 28, was a date that would become infamous to a lot of people around the

world because of a heavyweight boxing match in Vegas.

The one where Mike Tyson bit the ear off as a pony of Andrew Holyfield.

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