This episode contains descriptions of violence. Listener discretion is advised.

David and I were close. He told me, I wish you were my sister. He loved to collect stickers. I love to collect stickers. I love to collect stickers.

They're Skeletor, Spider-Man, Elmer Fudd. He started a sticker out of just 11 months before he went missing.

His mom looked at every face of every kid in the crowd to see if it was Dave.

But the more time he was missing, the more we kind of knew that he wasn't coming home again.

All we could picture then is poor Dave laying there, suffering, dying, and no one's going to help them.

It's, you know, it's really hard to think about.

If you have someone missing, don't stop pushing until you find the answers because they depend on you to do it for them.

Don't give up.

There are 120,000 unsolved murders in America.

Each one is a cold case.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

This is one of those rare stories. It's shortly after 7 p.m. on August 21st, 1985, in Skookle Haven, Pennsylvania.

The kids in the neighborhood are squeezing the last minutes of light out of the summer's day as it approaches dusk.

Skookle Haven is a small town in Pennsylvania with a population of just under 5,000 people.

Located along the Skukle River,

approximately 92 miles northwest of Philadelphia,

many of the residents of the small borough have lived there for generations.

Rhonda Fino and Pamela Russell grew up in Skooklehaven,

close to their 13-year-old cousin, David Reed.

Everybody kind of sort of knows everybody. It's one of those close-knit towns,

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