When a mom of four moves halfway around the world to a remote corner of northern Maine, she soon disappears from her new home.

State investigators assume control of a case originally handled by a criminally corrupt small-town police department in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime

storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott. Atten Shaw was last seen alive in

September of 2021. She was 33 years old at the time and lived in Washburn, Maine. Washburn is a very

small community, home to only about

1,500 people, located in the northernmost part of the state, not far from the Canadian border.

It's an extremely rural place. Some might even consider it desolate, depending on what they're

accustomed to. And Atten may have been one of those people because she was new to Washburn

and had lived the majority of her life in a place that, in many ways, was the opposite of rural

northern Maine. Atten was from Indonesia, specifically the province of Papua. It's an extremely

beautiful place. Picture lots of green and misty mountains in a balmy subtropical highland climate.

Lots of rain, lots of trees, just abundant natural beauty.

Of course, northern Maine is beautiful as well, but the climate is much harsher, and it's a sparsely populated place.

Atten's home province had been more densely populated, home to a

diverse population of Indonesian people and the occasional foreigner, like, for example, her husband.

While living in her home country, Atten had met a man named Mike Shaw. He was an American ex-patriot,

a teacher by trade who taught math and science at an international school.

He and Atten met in 2011. At the time, Atten was a single mom in her early 20s who worked in a beauty spa.

Once she and Mike met, their relationship moved quickly. On her personal blog, Atten wrote that it was love at first sight, and they married just a few months after meeting.

Atten and Mike were, in many ways, a case of opposites attracting.

They were from very different cultures, but that wasn't their only difference.

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