All of a sudden now he says, Linda, I see a skull.

Deep in the heart of the Ozarks, a mysterious disappearance turns into a grisly discovery.

I'm thinking they're lying like hell because my little girl wasn't big.

Two young women, murdered.

I have nightmares about this.

I have nightmares that she's asking for help and I can't help her.

With a connection to one of the most infamous serial killers of all time and one very familiar name stepping out from the shadows of the past.

Well first he chose his own moniker, bind them, torture them, kill them,

BTK. In a once cold case them,

and kill them, BTK. And a once cold case is pulled off the shelves in real time

as investigators race to solve a gruesome

dark puzzle.

The skull was detached from the body and the ribcage was

detached from the body. You know the only clothes that was on the body that we found was where the pelvis and legs were.

In ten shoes, she had ten shoes on.

My name is M. William Phelps.

I'm an investigative journalist true crime author of close to 50 books and the host of the

podcast Paper Ghosts now in its fourth season for my heart media.

For the past several years, I've been re-investigating the cases of two young women,

abducted from their small towns, their bodies dumped deep in the Ozark woods.

Cold cases, I'm breaking wide open, bringing family's answers after 30 long years of silence and waiting.

I'm not out to give up on it,

...