Before she vanished, April Grissanti was a young woman trying to find her footing.

Then, over the course of one winter night in 1985, she disappeared in plain sight.

Witnesses saw her struggle.

Police heard her voice asking for help, and yet April was never seen again.

What followed has never felt like justice.

No murder charge, no body, no answers.

This is a story about incomplete justice,

about a family left carrying questions the investigation has never fully resolved.

Over four decades later, the question still hangs in the air. Where is she?

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of April Grissanti on Dark Down East. It was just before noon on February 1st, 1985,

when the phone rang inside a modest apartment

at the Colonial Village Complex in Norwalk, Connecticut.

Mary Lou Grasanti answered it, expecting nothing out of the ordinary.

Instead, she heard the voice of her daughter's co-worker, calling from Binky's Cafe on Van Zant Street in East Norwalk.

20-year-old April Grosanti was scheduled to work that day, but she hadn't shown up.

According to reporting by Barbara A. Hines for the Daily Advocate,

the last time Mary Lou had seen her daughter April was the day before, January 31st.

April was asleep when Mary Lou left for work that day.

It wasn't like April to not come home.

So by 12.30 p.m. with no word from April and no explanation for her absence, Mary Lou

reported her missing. As frightening as it was that April hadn't come home and hadn't gone to work,

what Mary Lou would soon learn about the previous night made the situation feel urgent in a way

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