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I worried about Michael all the time because I saw danger and everything.

I thought it was possible that he'd had an accident.

Anybody can have an accident.

When I got to the lake, this voice comes to me just as clear as a bell,

and it said, Mike is not in Lake Seminole.

You have to find him and bring him home. So for the next 17 years, I spent my life trying to find my child. 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.

It's cold in the Florida panhandle when 31-year-old Mike Williams leaves his Tallahassee home at 3 a.m.

On December 16, 2000, to go duck hunting on Lake Seminole.

Duck hunters know how to get out before the duck start flying, so Mike gets an early start.

He plans to be back that afternoon.

It's his wedding anniversary the following day, and he and his wife Denise intend to spend

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