Nonnie Dotson
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The 33-year-old single mother of one, who was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, was visiting friends and family in Littleton, Colorado. Having gone out the night before, Nonnie was hoping to meet up with some friends one last time before flying home the next day.
After leaving her brother's home that Sunday afternoon, Nonnie would never be seen alive again. Despite investigators looking into several suspicious individuals close to her - and tracing her cell phone to a field not too far away - there has been no sign of her in the 14 years since...
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| 0:00.0 | Lance Herring was an American citizen born in Saudi Arabia to his parents, who were |
| 0:12.1 | both teachers working overseas. |
| 0:14.8 | When he was 5 years old, amidst the outbreak of the Gulf War, he would move with his family |
| 0:20.0 | to the United States. |
| 0:21.9 | But they would later return to Saudi Arabia a few years later when he was just 7, and |
| 0:26.9 | Lance would later credit his childhood there for giving him an appreciation of other |
| 0:30.9 | cultures. |
| 0:31.9 | He would end up spending his formative years there in the Middle East, but would eventually |
| 0:35.7 | move with his family to Golden Colorado, where he would come of age at the turn of the |
| 0:40.4 | millennium. |
| 0:41.4 | Fresh out of high school, Lance decided to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue |
| 0:45.7 | military service, with his father having been an army infantryman during the Vietnam War. |
| 0:51.3 | Now faced with his generation's own version of Vietnam, Lance decided to enlist in the U.S. |
| 0:56.4 | Marine Corps, and despite scoring a 99 on his aptitude test, decided to join the infantry. |
| 1:03.4 | Later speaking to the Denver Post, he explained, quote, I didn't want to join the Marines |
| 1:07.8 | to sit at a desk. |
| 1:10.4 | But life in the Marine Corps would turn out to be much less glamorous than Lance Herring |
| 1:15.0 | expected, with him quickly beginning to realize that things inside of the military were just |
| 1:20.0 | as pointless to him as the things outside of it. |
| 1:22.8 | He did not know it at the time, but a 7-month tour in Iraq would result in him suffering |
| 1:27.7 | from a severe case of PTSD, with him being unable to explain his issues to anyone and growing |
| 1:33.9 | increasingly disillusioned with the world he was living in. |
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