As a journalist, I can tell you there are some stories I just cannot get out of my mind.

I think about them over and over.

This is also what happened to a journalist named Janine Zitlin.

Nearly 20 years ago in 2005, Zitlin was a young reporter at the Naples Daily News in Naples,

Florida.

In the course of her reporting, she heard about two local men who had gone missing the

year before.

Both were men of color.

She had disappeared a few months apart on the same stretch of road, and both were last

cited in the back of a police car driven by the same man, a local sheriff's deputy.

Maybe a coincidence?

Maybe not.

Zitlin was surprised to find that her paper hadn't been covering the story.

So she started digging into it and she hasn't stopped since.

What she's found says a lot about justice, about who matters and who's overlooked.

I'm Rachel Martin and this is up for Sunday and today we bring you the first episode of

Zitlin's investigative series into the disappearance of Terrence Williams and Felipe Santos.

The series is the last ride from the USA Today Network, Florida, and WGCU Public Media.

Episode 1.

One deputy, two missing men.

My name is Janine Zitlin.

I'm a journalist who has long covered the cases of two young men who vanished after separate

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