See, that's not how people disappear.

That's not typically the point where people just disappear in the air.

On a cold, wet, December morning secluded deep in the woods of southwest Washington.

They might get hit by a car, they might fall in a ditch.

A team of searchers forms a line, working their way up a steep hillside, pushing through

thick mud and razor-sharp vegetation.

People disappear by getting picked up by somebody that had never met before.

A searcher...

Hold a line.

Sees something.

It's a ring, tarnished by the elements.

And you pick her up and you take her somewhere and then she's never heard of again.

And then...

There's a lot of stuff here.

We've got to be vigilant.

The team finds a cell phone cord, nodded, around a clump of hair.

What happened on that trip? I don't know what to tell you.

Investigators fear it could be connected to a missing person's case involving 17-year-old

Nikki Kuhnhausen.

Detective's learning that Nikki left her residence early in the morning.

I knew something was wrong, and it turns out it something was wrong.

There were no further contacts or sightings of Nikki since that time.

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