On the evening of August 10, 2005, a man in New York City answered the phone at the office where he worked.

A woman's voice came across the line, and she asked to speak with one of the man's employees.

And the man thought for a second, and then he ultimately replied that, actually, that employee had not shown up for their shift that afternoon, and they didn't know why, but they weren't here.

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any of our weekly uploads. Okay, 2005, 18-year-old Eliza Parsi sat on her bed in her home in Staten Island, New York,

flipping through a fashion magazine. The house was quiet because Eliza's mother,

Seema, was at work. So Eliza had the whole house to herself, at least for a little while,

until she herself went to work. Eliza had graduated high school just a few months ago,

and now she was working as a clerk at a moving company to try to save up some money for college, and also to eventually move into Manhattan to pursue her dream of working in the fashion industry.

However, Eliza did feel a bit guilty about moving away because it would mean leaving her mom all alone in this big house.

And there wasn't really any other family nearby

because both of her parents were from Israel. Seema had divorced Eliza's father about a year and a half ago,

and her father had left New York and moved back to Israel. Eliza also had two half-brothers,

who were Seema's sons from her first marriage, and one of them was back in Israel as well,

and the other,

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