Just a heads up, on this podcast we discuss some heavy topics, including murder and other acts of violence.

Listen or discretion is advised. When the cops don't listen, a reporter is the next best thing.

I learned that very early in my career as a journalist.

People come to me for help to solve all sorts of things.

To understand an issue, right or wrong, expose a fraud, or a person who has vanished without a trace.

And without being overly sentimental, there is so much power in having your story told

to millions of people on TV or the radio.

It says, what happened to me matters, because I matter.

Which is why the stories that haunt me the most are the ones about people who have been begging, sometimes for years to be heard.

Like the families of missing people.

The ones we hear about are just a fraction of the thousands who

disappear every single day.

This is where dogs lost Katie's scent. As you can see it's about a hundred yards

away from the Dollar General.

This is also where authorities believe.

That was me in 2004, reporting on the case of a missing girl

from Louisville, Kentucky.

I was just a few years out of college,

and this was one of my very first TV jobs.

But it was a phone call I received the first week I started that would turn out to be

one of the most important stories of my life.

I tell you in that moment I just remember when you answered the phone. I just kind of remember you saying hello.

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