Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Brett.

Today, I want to tell you about a missing person's case out of the Midwest.

A case that the community thinks should be solid by now due to the overwhelming

circumstantial evidence. And this is the case of Patty Atkins.

Patty was a 29-year-old single mother to her pride and joy, little daughter named

McKayley. In 2001, they lived in a small Midwest town of Maryville, Ohio, where Patty worked

at the Honda factory. And this is a really large factory that employed about 4,000 people at that time.

She'd been working there since she was just 19 years old and she had worked her way up through

the ranks because Patty was a really hard worker. So when she told her family that she was going to

be going on a week-long vacation with her boyfriend to unwind, like just the two of them in this

remote part of Canada, totally unplugged during this week that apparently Honda just shut down

their plant completely. Her family thought like, you deserve this. So the plan was for Patty to drop

off McKayley at her ex's house and she'd stay with him for a couple of days, then go stay with

Patty's sister and then Patty would pick her up on Sunday after her long trip. So the week before

on a Friday, now this is June 29, 2001, everything seems to be going as planned. Patty drops off her

daughter and she takes her animals to be boarded, then she catches a ride with a friend into work

for her 330 shift at the plant. And you see normally she would drive herself but she actually

worked with her boyfriend and they were going to leave together straight from work and she didn't

want her car sitting in the parking lot all week. So at some point in the afternoon before her shift

had begun, Patty left a voicemail for her sister, Marcia, the one I would be watching her daughter.

And it was like nothing important just kind of reiterating she'd be back to get McKayley on Sunday.

She reminded her sister that she was going to like kind of a remote area up in Canada and she wasn't

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