All language subtitles for Howards Mill English

[birds chirping]
[air whooshing]

[mischievous music]

[Cameraman] Is yours working?

[Cameraman] Mm hm.

[Dwight sighs]

[cameraman speaking faintly]

- [Kaiser] All right, we're
just gonna start easy.

Can you give me your name,
age and where you're from?

Okay.

My name is Dwight Nixon.

I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.

I'm 37 years old.

[Kaiser] And your wife?

My wife's name is Emily Nixon.

She's from
Springfield, Tennessee.

We both are livin' here now.

- [Kaiser] Where's
your wife now?

- [sighs] Emily went
missin' 32 days ago.

- [Kaiser] Do you know what
might've happened to her?

No, but I plan to find out.

- [Kaiser] Did you
kill your wife?

[singer vocalizing]

My name is Kaiser Whitmore.

Me and my college
classmate, Charlie Burris,

are film students in
Nashville, Tennessee.

We read about the disappearance

- of Emily Nixon
- Emily!

- [Kaiser] and her husband
Dwight's ongoing search

for her while also remaining
the primary suspect.

We thought it
interesting enough,

so we inquired about
doing this interview.

[Emily laughing]

What we thought was
gonna be a single day

of filming turned into
much more than that.

Something more mysterious,

[shutter flashing]

more unexplainable.

- [Dispatcher] 911,
what's your emergency?

[Kaiser] More sinister.

[dramatic music]

- Oh my God!
- Oh God!

Get outta here.

[somber mysterious music]

- A few days after
our initial interview,

Dwight agreed to walk us through
the day Emily disappeared.

It happened on an 82 acre farm

in Springfield, Tennessee
called Howard's Mill.

Abandoned for nearly 50 years,

the land consists of
mostly overgrown fields,

some small wooded
areas and a large pond.

That much stuff?

Oh, he's here.

- Okay, okay.
- Do you need help?

- [Charlie] No,
I'm good, I'm good.

- [Kaiser] Hey, good
to see you again.

Hey, how you doin'?

[Kaiser] Good, how are you?

I'm all right.

- Well, thank you
so much for coming.

Do you mind just walking
us through that day,

beginning of the day up
until her disappearance?

Yeah, sure.

Emily and I got here
probably about 12:15.

Okay.

- We stopped by
the nursing home.

Emily's mom is in
the nursing home.

Oh, okay.

- And we made sure
she got her meds

and talked with her for a
minute, then we drove up here.

Yeah.

- What were you guys
doing over here again?

Metal detector,

- metal-
- That's right.

- Yeah.
- Okay.

So, when you did bring him in

was there anything
off about him?

Nothin' stuck out at first.

He had a good
recollection of the day.

And what were you
doin' on the property?

- My wife and I are
amateur treasure hunters.

Do you ever find anything?

- No, it's just a way of
spending time together.

So, we're up here.

We're metal detecting and
then we decided, okay.

We decide we're gonna split off.

All right?

- So, I go-
- Wait, y'all split off?

- When did you decide to
go in different directions?

[Dwight sighs]
[mysterious music]

We didn't.

Well, I mean, it's what we do.

We walk in different directions

so we're not coverin'
the same area.

- Kinda counter to spendin'
time together wouldn't you say?

- And we always agree
to meet at a certain,

meet at a middle point.

And so, we agreed to meet right
over here, over that ridge.

Do you see way up there
where that ridge is?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

That's where we agreed to meet.

- When he started walkin'
us through the routes

that he and his wife
took around the property,

that's when his story
began fallin' apart.

- So, you saw her
the whole time?

- I saw her most
of the time, yeah.

- Can you show me on the
map, the area you covered?

- And if you look
over this ridge here,

you really can't
see down into that.

So, I figured that maybe she'll

come over the hill eventually.

So, I stop right about here
in this little open space.

- And where we found a piece
of Emily's metal detector?

[Dwight sighs]

- And I feel somethin'
under my foot.

[dramatic music]
[shutter flashing]

- [Charlie] Did the
police come here

and meet you here?

Yes, yes.

They couldn't find anything,
I couldn't find anything.

[mysterious music]

- [Kaiser] While
searching the property,

police discovered Emily's phone.

[shutter flashing]

The following footage

was the last thing
Emily recorded

just moments before
her disappearance.

- I'm gettin' a
strong kick here.

It seems to be about
six inches down.

[dramatic music]

What do we have here?

Dwight's gonna be so mad.

He never really finds anything.

I'm not sure what
it is right now

but it seems kind of
heavy and metallic.

I'm gonna have to get
it home to wash it off.

[dramatic music]

[children singing]

- [Dwight] Emily was born
in Springfield, Tennessee.

- [Man] What are
y'all posin' for?

This is a movie camera.

- [Dwight] Her dad died
when she was six months old.

- They can't bring
no camera with you.

- [Dwight] So, she
was raised by her mom.

Just she and her mom.

[solemn music]

- I've known Emily
since we were kids.

We grew up together.

We had lots of classes together

and we just became best friends.

- We've been best friends
since junior high.

She was always happy.

She always had a smile.

- She was sweet,
kindhearted and hilarious.

- Beautiful personality,
liked by everyone.

- This town has always
been really fun for us.

We hung out, we got
our own little places

that we love to go
and we spend a ton

of time just runnin' around
and bein' goofy girls.

Emily and I met in 2011.

When he got with Emily,

it's like his whole
life just changed.

- Hi.
[Dwight laughs]

Isn't she cute?

He loved Emily.

He'd just do anything for Emily.

♪ Happy birthday

- It felt really quick,
like pretty quick for her.

I mean, that was a
unique situation.

I wasn't used to her
responding so quickly.

- It was fast, but
he just fell head

over heels in love with her.

[Emily laughs]

[Dwight groans]

We got married in 2013.

[soft music]

- [Emily] So, Dwight just got
to Springfield, Tennessee.

[Dwight sighs]

[Emily giggles]

You ready for your
first pair of overalls?

[Dwight laughs]
[Emily giggles]

- What'd you think we didn't
have 'em Atlanta in the 1990s?

[Emily laughs]

I just hope you don't care

if I have one strap on
with no shirt [indistinct].

[Emily laughs]

- Oo yeah!
- Oh, whatever [laughs].

Well, I think you're
gonna love living here.

It's a great place
to raise a family.

So, you're ready for a family?

[Emily laughs]

Hm, maybe.

[somber music]

- Robertson County
was founded in 1796

the same year the state of
Tennessee was established.

[clock chimes]

It is a small town, but we
do have a lot of history.

We have tobacco, we have
the whiskey industry.

It's a wonderful place to live.

Been here all my life, so far.

- I feel like
everyone's family here.

- That Eagle was
picking up baby pigs,

and so it had to be killed.

[somber music]

- [Kaiser] Did you ever
regret moving here?

No, not at all.

- I don't-
- Even if it means

you never see Emily again?

- No, I don't regret moving
here and I definitely

don't blame moving here
for Emily's disappearance.

- [Kaiser] Is it possible that
Emily just left on her own?

Absolutely not.

She wouldn't just leave.

[eerie music]

- There was somethin'
about Emily's disappearance

that never seemed right to me.

The clues weren't there.

In my experience, when
somebody goes missing,

there's always a clue.

We had nothin' to go on.

- [Man] She just
flat disappeared.

- [Man] He was the
last person to see her.

That's going to
obviously put him

at a higher level of suspicion.

- [Kaiser] Do you
think her husband

had something to do with it?

- Man, I hate to speculate
on stuff like that.

- When this case with
she'd been gone a month,

I would likely expect to find

a body instead of
a living person.

- Course everybody's
got an angle.

Who you gonna believe?

[eerie music]

- [Bobby] Were there
any problems in your marriage problems?

- No, we didn't
have any problems.

Not any different
than any other couple.

Any major fights recently?

No.

Why are you harassin' me?

- Why do you think I
had lunch with you?

- Last chance.
- You're crazy.

Do you recall that argument?

[Dwight speaking faintly]

Yes.

- We were able to uncover
a bit more evidence

about the relationship
between Mr and Mrs. Nixon.

- Sometimes people are
drunk and they fight,

and she'd spend some time
with me when she felt

like she needed to
let him cool off.

- [Kaiser] He would never
physically hurt her, would he?

- Absolutely not,
absolutely not.

He was not brought up
around violence at all.

He comes from a family where

the women were
very well respected

and that's just something
totally against his nature.

- I warned her that
it could possibly

be on the verge of
actually turning violent.

- Even if you get angry
with them, you walk away.

- [Kaiser] Detective Latta
believes you killed your wife.

Of course he does [sighs].

But what you should
concern yourself

with is what he's not sayin'.

This has happened before,

right there on
that same property.

[eerie music]
[singer vocalizing]

- People still say things
happen around here all the time.

You can ask anybody
in the community

and they've had some story
or odd occurrence out here.

It's kind of a local novelty.

Kids talk about the
place and they dare

their buddies to go over there
and walk around or whatever.

- [Sam] We went there one
time, we'll never go back.

- Our friend went in and he
didn't come out for 15 minutes,

and when he came
out, he was crying.

- As soon as we
pulled out my truck

just went [imitates
engine chugging],

started givin' out and
he said he saw somethin',

in my headlights.

He said he saw some
woman or somethin'.

- I'm pretty sure
it's like a ghost

because it was moving slightly.

And I don't believe
in no supernatural

but I did run, so [laughs].

I look up and there's like,

just this silver thing
just sittin' in the sky.

And I was like,
that's kinda weird.

Yeah, I've seen some lights.

And all this whole area,

this whole county is known
to have odd events happen.

It could definitely be the
reason you have strange events

and occurrences on
the Howard's property.

All this property was sacred
hunting ground to the Indians.

So, they supposedly
protected this property

by way of blessing these
rocks and the graves.

So, incidentally I don't
mess with graves out here

because I don't wanna start
it again, whatever it was.

This has happened before,

right there on
that same property.

[Kaiser] What do you mean?

Who'd this happen to?

When?

- In 1994, a little girl named
Sarah Winston disappeared.

Just vanished right
there at Howard's Mill.

- [Sarah's Mom] Did you feed
some chips to the birds?

- [Sarah] Uh [giggles]-

- [Sarah's Mom] Yeah, did
you see that blue heron?

Want another sandwich, baby?

No, I'm cool.

- [Sarah's Mom] Are you
saving room for cake?

- Yeah.
[Sarah's mom laughs]

[Roger] I am, too.

- Chocolate cake.
- Mm, mm, mm.

I love you, baby.

I love you too.

- Mwah.
- You want a sandwich?

- [Roger] No, no
thank you, I'm good.

- You don't want-
- I'm gonna go play.

- Be careful up there.
- Love you, Dad.

- [Roger] All
right, love you too.

- You didn't like
that she didn't stay.

[Roger] I don't think I do.

[Sarah's parents laughing]

- [Sarah's Mom] Look how fast
she's runnin' in those boots.

She's running now.

[Roger] Sarah?

- [Sarah's Mom]
Sarah, are you okay?

[Roger] She's playin' around.

[Sarah's Mom] I don't see her.

[Roger] Well, hold on.

[Sarah's Mom] Sarah?

[Roger] Sarah?

[Sarah's Mom] Honey,

- go see what happened.
- Sarah?

Come on now.

[Sarah's Mom] Sarah?

[Roger] Sarah?

Sarah?

[Sarah's Mom] Don't see her?

[Roger] Sarah!

[Sarah's Mom] Sarah?

[Roger] Sarah!

Good Lord!

Where'd she go?

Sarah!

[Sarah's Mom] Sarah?

[Roger] Sarah?

[Sarah's Mom and Roger] Sarah?

[Roger] Oh my God.

Oh my God,

- where did she go?
- Sarah?

Sarah!

[dramatic music]

Sarah!

[Sarah's Mom and Roger] Sarah!

[crow cawing]

- [Kaiser] We were
able to track down

the lead investigator from the
Sarah Winston disappearance,

retired Detective, Dan Thompson.

[train rattling]

- [Dwight] So, you worked
the Sarah Winston case?

- Yes, I did and it was
real tragic, that one.

- Well, what do you
remember about it?

Oh, I remember everything.

Everything.

She went missing
practically right

in front of her
parents, broad daylight.

Hm.

Yeah, that was a strange case.

There was an open field.

They were out, nobody around
and next thing you know, gone.

Nowhere to hide, nobody
anywhere around, nothin'.

No sounds.

Very strange.

What do you think happened?

I'm not sure.

That case was never solved,

so never found an end to it.

- [Kaiser] We found an
address for Roger Winston

just outside Bowling
Green, Kentucky.

All right.

Ah, is that it?

[Kaiser] Yeah, this is it.

- Okay.
- Let's go.

It was a Saturday.

We were celebratin'
her 10th birthday

off of Old State Highway 41.

[Dwight] The Howard place?

- We just treated
it like a park.

Nobody bothered us there.

She liked to run around.

- Did you see that blue heron?
[Sarah giggling]

- [Roger] She was the
happiest kid I ever saw.

I love you, Dad.

- [Dwight] And you didn't
see anyone else around?

Nah, it's just us.

[solemn music]

Then after [sniffs],
I ran up there.

Hey, baby, come on!

Tryin' to find her and,

Sarah!

See if she was okay and...

Sarah!

[Sarah's Mom] Sarah?

Sarah?

She wasn't there.

Vanished [inhales sharply].

Just poof, she's gone.

Gone.

[solemn music]
[singer vocalizing]

- Roger, to say he went to
pieces is an understatement.

After she went missin',

he just totally, just lost
his self, lost everything.

- [Man] It was like all the
life had been taken out of him.

- He started havin' to
deal with that grief

and the way that he chose to
deal with it was an addiction.

It ruined his family and
you can't really reason

with somebody when they're
in such a depression.

It hits you the way it hits you.

If you think about it we're all

one missing kid away from
being a crazy person.

- Then he started chasing
all these theories.

- He's not the person I knew
back before this happened.

- How can you say goodbye
when they're still out there?

[solemn music]

After she was gone,
I went back everyday,

and then every Saturday,

and then once a year
on the day it happened.

One year I went and it was 2004,

and I got there and it
was already dark out.

It was sunset but it was dark.

[eerie music]

And it looked different, yeah.

Somebody put a pond
in almost exactly

on the spot where Sarah...

Sarah!

[Roger sniffles]

There was somethin'
floatin' in it.

[Roger sniffling]
[solemn music]

I found this there that night.

[eerie music]

It was wet, but it was spotless.

Just like the day she made it.

There's no way this
was laying in the dirt,

floatin' in that
pond for 10 years.

[solemn music]

- [Dwight] So what do
you think happened?

- I think she was
tryin' to come home.

[Dwight] Come home from where?

[eerie music]

[Kaiser] Sarah in 1994.

Emily in 2017.

Two disappearances so similar,
but over 20 years apart.

Are they connected or just
coincidental tragedies?

- [Roger] That's
'cause she's not dead.

She's still out there.

You wife might be, too.

- [Kaiser] We needed a lead
to connect Emily and Sarah.

Something real, someone.

[eerie music]

The day that Emily went missing,

why didn't you immediately
call the police?

- I don't know, I did
what anyone else would.

I started yellin' for her.

I called her cell phone.

That took some time.

[Kaiser] Three hours?

- I mean, look, it took at
least 10 minutes goin' back

and forth to the car.

Then goin' through the
woods was like another hour.

[eerie music]

I wasn't thinkin' about time.

[eerie music]

What do we have here?

- [Kaiser] Can I
show you something?

[dramatic music building]

Do you see that?

There's someone
in the background.

Why am I just seein' this?

- [Kaiser] Because we
thought it could be you.

[dramatic music]

That's not me.

That's Wayne.

[singer vocalizing]
[soft music]

[Kaiser] For the first time

since we began our documentary,

we had a suspect
other than Dwight.

The Ritchie farm borders to
Howard's property to the west,

giving Wayne the
most direct access

to Howard's Mill than any
of the other neighbors.

Yeah, I know Wayne.

He's kinda keeps to himself.

He doesn't do much
socializing or nothin'.

- He's just one of
those guys that,

he's kind of like
the town eccentric.

- Just kinda odd [laughs],
kinda like the rest of us.

But anyhow.

You see him sometimes with,

he's got a rabbit in his
hand that he got on the road.

I don't know what
he does with it.

No [chuckles].

His job is pickin' up
roadkill for the county.

Somebody gotta do it.

- I know when my
kids were little,

I used to go to like the
food store and the toy store,

he'd be buyin' like
all this baby food.

- Heard a story about
him awhile back,

that he, he's kinda off.

So his momma, he wanted
the money from his momma

and she told him
to go rob a bank.

Well, he goes up here
and robs the bank

and he ain't gonna hurt nobody.

But he said, "I'm here
to get some money.

My momma told me to come
get some money from y'all.

I'm here to rob a bank."

[laughs]

[eerie music]

- I think Wayne's life was
probably pretty tough at home.

I think his dad was
pretty rough on him

and his dad was a no
nonsense kinda guy,

a hard workin' man,
hard drinkin' guy

and I think Wayne was
scared to death of him.

And to be honest with you,

I probably was a little bit too.

- [Kaiser] Were you
scared of Wayne at all?

No, no.

I don't think he's dangerous.

I think he's just
kind of a loner.

- Most people just leave him
alone, leave him be because-

- He'd probably
run 'em off anyway.

He probably would.

- He was-
- That's the way

his family's always been.

- There's been a lot of
kids going to that house.

Like we would normally
like ride four wheelers

down our road and stuff and
we never do that anymore.

He has threatened to
kill me and my neighbor.

[Kaiser]

- Well, he kinda
takes care of it.

Used to be a farm
several years ago

but it kinda died out.

Now he just does some
mowin' and things like that.

- Well, I don't know why
he's mowing that lawn

when the Howard's
left decades ago.

- Why would anybody do that?
- I don't know but he had,

the Howard's ain't comin' back.

- Before he kinda
tried to kidnap a girl

I think is the way that
it turned out to be.

We all just kinda thought
that he was strange.

- He gave this girl a
ride home from school.

He didn't stop at her house.

He just kept going and she
was gone for a whole hour.

[eerie music]

[Kaiser] Is Wayne a suspect?

[sighs] Wayne's slow.

He's always been slow.

He likes to keep to himself
which upsets some people.

Kidnappin'?

No.

Wayne Ritchie didn't
kidnap anybody.

- [Kaiser] But what
about Terra Edwards?

[dramatic music]

[eerie music]

Although Wayne
Ritchie was nearby

during the disappearance of
Emily Nixon and Sarah Winston,

we wrote him off as a harmless
misunderstood recluse.

But then we learned
about Terra Edwards.

[eerie music]

Yeah, I was 14.

We all thought he was harmless.

One day he said
he'd take me home.

But he just drove right
past my neighborhood.

- Apparently Mr. Ritchie
had gone to the school

in his car and my daughter
doesn't have a car to drive.

So, offered her a ride home.

They drove towards the
house and when she said,

"This is my house,

just let me off in
front of the house,"

he kept driving.

Next thing I remember,

I mean, I just started
screaming, freaking out.

Next stop sign I jump outta
the car, run home, tell my dad.

I could see right away.

I knew somethin' was wrong.

I called the cops.

[eerie music]

- Oh, I remember Wayne
Ritchie very well.

It was my second
year as a teacher.

Wayne was not a
very good student

and his heart wasn't in it,

never really got in a
whole lot of trouble.

He just didn't do much
while he was here.

- Obviously he has
somethin' wrong.

- It was a little awkward
because he would come.

He was not a student here,

but he would come up and even
enter the building at times.

So we ran him off on
a number of occasions.

- I didn't think taking a
ride with them was a big deal,

until he had that look that,
I mean, it was just blank.

There was nothing there.

- I think it was just a
big infatuation on his part

that had gotten to a point

that it was probably
not healthy anymore.

I never thought he was capable

of hurting someone
until that day.

- [Stan] His intentions
weren't good.

- Now, Wayne, he
did have an uncle

or a cousin that was
on the police force,

tried to make it look like it

was an innocent
misunderstanding.

Of course, it went away

and Terra's dad was
pretty upset about that.

- What I remember what
the cops did was nothing.

- [Dwight] I mean, with
Emily and Sarah Winston

both missin' so close
to his property,

that's just too much
of a coincidence.

So yeah, you're damn right,

I wanna talk to Wayne Ritchie.

[pensive music]

- [Kaiser] Mr. Ritchie,
do you have a minute?

No, I got nothin' to say, so.

[Kaiser]

[Kaiser]

[Kaiser]

[Kaiser] The Lopez's?

Wait, wait, wait!

- I can't talk right now.
- No, no, just,

I gotta go.

[Wayne] Leave me alone.

Did you get that?

[eerie music]

Wayne's mention of
the Lopez's led us

to a third missing
persons case connected

to the Howard's property.

In 1977 a family of
migrant workers vanished,

leaving behind their
nine-year-old son, Daniel.

[Daniel] My uncle cried out.

I looked up and he was gone.

[dramatic music]

Then my father, he fell,

dropped straight to the ground.

He was reachin' up
for my mother's dress

when he was goin' down and
then she was gone, too.

[dramatic music]

- [Kaiser] Are you
familiar with the Lopez's?

No, I don't believe so.

- In the '70s they started
entering migrant workers

here to work the tobacco
field 'cause they couldn't

get other people to work.

- The Howard's had
foreign farm hands

come in before anybody else did.

- He used a lot of
'em, Mr. Howard.

He used a lot of 'em
throughout the years.

- [Dwight] You remember
the Lopez case?

Mm hm, yeah.

They left a abandoned
little boy, I think.

Left a little boy
at 10 years old,

nine years old,
somethin' like that.

- His family went missin' and
we took them in for awhile

and we were hopin' that
his family would come back

but they never did.

The county came and got him
and sent him back to Illinois.

It's really sad though,

that his family
left him like that.

- I just had a
hard time believin'

that they ever would
abandon their son.

They were such a
tight knit family.

- Do you have a case
file I could look at?

I don't, no.

That was Jennings case
and he's passed on now.

So, I'm sure there's
something in the archive.

We can go look it up.

[soft music]

[Helen] I'm Helen Jennings.

David Jennings was my husband.

[Kaiser] What did he do?

- He was on the police
force here in Springfield.

He was on the force,
gosh, for 40 years plus

and he was promoted to
detective in '69, 1969, I think.

- [Kaiser] Is there a lot of
detective work in this town?

It seems pretty quiet.

- Well, it does, but
you'd be surprised.

We had a lot of crime
here, including murders.

- [Kaiser] Any cases that
stood out in particular?

Oh yes, absolutely.

It was the Lopez case.

It just got under his skin more

than anything else
he ever worked on.

They never found any
trace of the family,

they left everything behind.

The boy even said, "They
disappeared into the earth."

- [Kaiser] Did he
believe Daniel's story

about being sucked
into the earth?

[Helen sighs]

- He believed there was a
logical explanation to it.

He investigated
sinkholes, earthquakes,

anything that he could find

that would prove
the boy's story,

but sad as it was, the Lopez
family abandoned Daniel.

[eerie music]

- [Kaiser] We were able to
track down Daniel Lopez,

who is now living in
Raleigh, North Carolina.

[Dwight] Daniel?

- Yes.
- Hey, Dwight.

Hey, how you doin'?

- This is Kaiser
- Kaiser, nice to meet you.

- and Charlie.
- Pleasure, pleasure.

- How's it goin'?
- You ready to talk?

Yeah, yeah.

Come on in.

All right.

Come on.

[gentle music]

- [Dwight] Let's
start with you tellin'

us who your parents were.

My parents were migrants.

We all traveled together.

- So what brought you and
your family to Howard's Mill?

- Howard's Mill was
a big tobacco farm.

We spent many months there.

- Do you remember a man
named Wayne Ritchie?

He lived nearby.

We spent some time together.

We didn't have much in common,

but neither of us really
was around other kids.

- Tell us about the,
what you remember

about the day your
family disappeared.

It was late afternoon.

I was about,

20 steps from the old barn.

My family was out in the fields,
loading up the pickup truck

with the day's crop.

- [Dwight] Can you
describe that field?

- It was directly
behind the house.

The ground dipped down

and started to spring
right back up into a ridge.

They were about
halfway up the hill,

maybe about 100 to 150
yards from the house.

My uncle cried out.

I looked up and he was gone.

[dramatic music]

Then my father,

he fell, dropped
straight to the ground.

- He-
- You remember it that well?

- Yeah, you can't forget
something like that.

I got scared, so I ran.

Went back to the last spot
where I saw my family.

After awhile, a police
officer came and got me.

I'm gonna show you something.

This video was taken in 1994.

[Sarah] I'm gonna go play.

- [Roger] All right
honey, love you.

- Be careful up there.
- Love you, Dad.

- [Roger] All
right, love you too.

[Sarah's Mom] You didn't like

that she didn't stay.

[Roger] I don't think I do.

[Sarah's parents laughing]

- [Sarah's Mom] Look how far
she's running in her boots.

[Roger] Oh my goodness, honey.

[Sarah's Mom] Birthday boots.

- She's fast.
- Whoops.

Yeah, yes.

That's exactly what happened.

[dramatic music]

Her name is Sarah Winston.

[Daniel] Okay.

Daniel, she's still missing.

Nothing was ever found except

for that pink and white hair bow

that you can see
in the recording.

That same hair bow was
found 10 years later,

floating in a pond
that was built

on the site of
her disappearance.

[eerie music]

- So, Dwight is out
there marking a location

where the Lopez's were working,

and we're about 20
steps from the old barn,

which would put
Daniel right here.

Hey, how's it goin' out there?

- Well, based on
Daniel's account,

this is the spot where
the family disappeared.

The family was gathering
supplies right here

where I'm standing and guy's,

looking around I don't
see any obstacles

or anything that you can hop on.

- [Kaiser] So, how fast do
you think it would take to get

to the tree line
right behind you?

- Well, I mean, if you
were running really fast,

maybe 20, 30 seconds.

- [Kaiser] So, if Daniel
looked down for a second

they could have easily
ran towards those trees.

- I mean, it's possible,
but there are plenty

of easier ways of abandoning
your kid than just waiting

for him to look down and
then running to some trees.

[Kaiser] Yeah, he's right.

[eerie music]

- [Dwight] Emily
disappeared here.

- And Lopez's over there up
that ridge about 100 yards.

- Yeah, and then Sarah
Winston disappeared

over this region, near the pond.

We're talkin' three
different disappearances,

all on the same property.

[eerie music]

[birds chirping]

[eerie music]

[Kaiser] To get a better idea

of the geological
layout of Howard's Mill,

we visited the Robertson
County Archives.

[Dwight sighs]

- We've got all their
names on the back side.

- Okay.
- Yes.

Okay, so Howard's
Mill should be there.

[Dwight] Wow.

- So that bounds up to
Highway 11 and mile marker 42.

Hm, that is really interesting.

You notice it's a triangular
piece of property.

You seldom ever find
triangular pieces

of property like
that one anymore.

Yeah, I see that.

Are there any other properties

like that here in Springfield?

I doubt it.

[gentle music]

- Originally, it
was Pickett's Mill.

It was named after John Pickett

who was the man who built it.

John was born in Virginia

and he and Thomas Kilgore

established Cross Plains,
Tennessee near the Red River.

About three years after that,
John and his wife, Hannah,

moved three miles to the
east and built the mill.

In 1971, the Howard's
came into town

from St. Louis and they bought

the mill from one Marty Lewis.

That's L-E-W-I-S Lewis.

And she was a direct descendant
of the Pickett family.

- [Kaiser] Are you aware
of any disappearances

that have happened
on the property?

You mean, Grant Pickett?

Grant Pickett vanished in
plain sight of his family.

Story goes that he was
working in his field

and his son who was
climbing a tree fell out

of the tree and broke his
arm and he started screaming.

So, Grant goes running toward
his son and his wife, Mary,

who was in the house,
goes running as well.

Mary is closer.

She gets to the boy first
and as Grant Pickett

is running toward his wife and
screaming child, he vanished.

Never heard from again.

- [Kaiser] Do you
believe this story?

[laughs]
[bright music]

- So this book should
contain the current deed

for Ms. Rebecca Howard.

All right, here we go.

So, it is currently
Rebecca Howard's property

to do with her as she places.

Now, I've heard a rumor that
Ms. Rebecca wrote a will

and that it says
that she's given

this land to the
city at her death.

- So, the city has no
jurisdiction over the land?

- That is owned by
Rebecca Howard, period.

[eerie music]

[Dwight groans]

[Dwight] You got it?

Good.

[Kaiser] Heck yeah.

[Dwight] All right, thank you.

[Charlie] Got something here.

Be careful.

- A lot of glass.
- What is that?

Yeah.

It's the Howards.

[eerie music]

You guys see this door?

It locks from the outside.

[eerie music]

We've got some kids'
clothes over here.

- [Kaiser] I thought the
Howard's didn't have any kids.

- I thought they didn't
have any kids either.

[eerie music]

Again, here we are.

Same thing.

Lock is on the
outside of the door.

[Kaiser] Oh, God, it's a door.

[pensive music]

[indistinct]

[Charlie groans]

Gives me the creeps.

[Dwight coughing]

- [Dwight] Wait a
minute, wait a minute.

I got somethin'.

[Kaiser] What?

What is this?

[Charlie] A box?

[music box playing]

- [Dwight] It's
like a music box.

Then I've got a box here.

[Dwight panting]

Wait, wait, I got somethin'.

- Pictures.
- It's pictures.

- [Dwight] It's a
little girl [panting]

[Kaiser] Who is she?

[Dwight] I don't know.

[pensive music]

[singer vocalizing]

- [Kaiser] I thought the
Howard's didn't have any kids?

- [Dwight] I thought they
didn't have any kids either.

- I don't remember the
Howard's having any kids.

- Yeah, I think they did have
some kids, a boy I believe.

But again, they had a lot
of farm hands over there.

So, it could've
been one of them.

- I can remember one time
my old truck broke down

out close to their farm,

and they were nice
and kind enough

to let me use their phone

and I think I remember a girl

bein' there but I don't recall

them ever mentionin'
her name or anything.

Like I said, that
was back in the '70s.

- I know I wasn't, I
wasn't able to find

any records that the
Howard's had a baby.

Given this is a rural area,

it's pretty common
that a lot of people

had children at home.

- [Kaiser] After trying to
reach Rebecca Howard by Phone,

we decided to make the drive

to St. Louis to
see her in person.

[eerie music]

- So, the Howard's had
a kid also went missin',

or at least nobody can find him.

So, what does that mean?

- I don't know what that
means for Emily yet,

but between Sarah,
the Lopez's and this,

it makes me wonder how
big this thing can get.

[somber music]
[singer vocalizing]

After the Lopez incident,

the house didn't feel
like home anymore.

It felt cold, soulless.

I started feelin' like
people were watchin' me.

There's been a recurrent theme

in a lot of the
sightings in the area

from people who really have
no contact with one another

and that is of these
tall, slender figures who are watching.

They call 'em the Watchers.

People have seen them on the
perimeter of their fields.

People have seen them in
their barns, in the haylofts.

- They were all lined
up on the horizon.

[eerie music]

I called Glynis a miracle.

We tried for 15 years, prayed.

I was nearly 40 when I
found out I was expecting.

She was playin'
like she always was.

I went down to tell
her supper was ready.

It seemed like she
was talkin' to someone

but there wasn't anyone there.

Just before I got to
her, the lights went out.

But then there was this
sort of different light.

[wind chime chiming]
[Rebecca gasping]

I yelled for her.

They were tellin' me to leave,

like that land was
theirs, not mind.

I thought if I did
what they said,

they'd bring her back to me.

[wind chime chiming]
[soft music]

- [Dwight] So in 1988, a
young girl was found wandering

outside the Howard's property.

[Dan] Right.

- [Dwight] She was claiming
that she was Glynis Howard.

Do you remember that case?

I remember the case.

Now, it wasn't my case,
but I do remember it.

It was pretty standard, really.

A missing girl.

It's a shame though,
nobody came claimin' her.

[pensive music]

- No one here now
was here back then

but I was able to find
a little info for you.

We have anywhere from 10
to 15 kids here at a time.

Glynis was here for two months.

She came with a kind of
a sad story back in 1988.

Didn't know much about herself

and our records show
she didn't talk much.

Someone found her walkin'
down the road barefoot

and nobody had reported any
missing children at the time

and nobody came
forward to claim her

and she did say her
name was Glynis Howard.

- We checked out
the Howard's house.

It was about a mile

from where the girl
was picked up at there,

and they hadn't been there,

I guess probably 10
years at that point.

So, I mean, it's common enough,
last name Howard, but no.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I remember that.

Real sad story.

Got a call about a kid
walking down the street alone,

pulled up in my car,
checked her out.

She was in really bad shape,
barefoot, unkempt hair,

looked like she hadn't
eaten in a week.

- [Kaiser] Do you know
if she was related

to anybody in town?

Nothing.

Nobody reported anybody missing.

Not much more I
could do beyond that.

- The last time we heard
anything about Glynis,

she had been placed with
a good foster family

and they decided to give
her a permanent home.

This story had a
very happy ending.

[eerie music]

Well, I only can give

you what's non-confidential
information.

She was in our care facility
for a short amount of time

and then she was placed

with a foster family by
the name of Lasseter.

Okay, here's what we know.

In 1979, the Howard's
left Springfield

and according to
everyone who remembers,

that house remained
empty ever since.

Then in 1988 this little
girl shows up claimin'

her last name is Howard,

but the Howard's
didn't have any kids.

And if they did have a daughter,
she would have to be what?

11, 12 years old by 1988.

So, the dates just don't add up.

I mean, if this really
is the Howard's daughter.

- I say we find her, ask
her some more questions.

[Woman] Hi.

Look at mommy!

- [Woman] Behave
like a little lady.

You are six years old.

Stop jumping on that couch.

[Glynis giggles]

- [Kaiser] So, how
was she as a child?

- Oh, she was very
special child.

Yeah, smart, funny.

You couldn't ask for
a better daughter.

Sweet, sweet as could be,
but we knew right away.

We just knew that we were
meant to be a family.

That's all I can tell you.

1989.

And that's whose birthday?

Mine.

[Ben] Yours?

Is it your birthday?

Huh?

Wow.

What have you been doing today?

- [Dwight] If you don't
mind for the camera,

would you tell us your full
first name and last name?

It's Glynis Williams.

Williams is my married name,
I got married last summer.

- [Dwight] So, tell
us a little bit

about your life growin' up.

Well, I'm happy to tell you

the story I told
everybody else back then

but I was little was little,

I was really little, though.

So, I think memories can change.

But,

I was playing inside.

I mostly only played inside,

and somehow I ran out.

I don't know if I was
chasing something or...

It's not really clear but
I got all turned around

and I couldn't find my way back.

Now it kind of
feels like a dream,

like pieces don't really fit,

but you swear it was real.

Swear it really happened.

And,

yeah, I must've walked for,

I walked for a really long time

and then I think
someone drove by

and they called the police.

- [Dwight] Glynis,
do you remember why

you said your last
name was Howard?

I thought it was.

I thought it was.

Even now when I hear it,

it still sounds like my name.

[Dwight] Feels natural?

Yeah.

- [Dwight] Do you
remember your parents?

[Glynis chuckles]

No, not really.

I [sighs] remember my dad.

I remember my dad a little bit.

And people told me about
the real Howard family,

started to talk to me
about it and told me

that there was no way
I could be their kid.

That even if they had a kid,

it was impossible I
could even be theirs

because of my age and the
time they lived in the house,

timelines and stuff.

And it just, nothing that
would make sense to me,

a little kid.

A big, big part of me always
felt like I was Glynis Howard.

And so, when I was 16
I actually looked up

the real Howard
family, called 'em up.

And I thought if we
could see each other

it would clear everything up.

- You know?
- Yeah.

- People would believe
me, but I was wrong.

I had never seen them before.

[Glynis speaking indistinctly]

I've pretty much given
up on that dream.

I used to have this fantasy
that my real parents,

my birth parents would
come back for me.

[Glynis laughs]

Like they didn't abandon me.

They just, lost in an
accident or somethin'.

[Glynis sniffles]

I used to have a lot
of fantasies back then,

that I was a princess
or a time traveler.

[Dwight chuckles]

- Yeah, to makes sense
- Right there.

[Glynis] of all the...

- Craziness?
- Very, very pretty.

- Yeah, make sense
- Okay.

- of all the missing pieces.
- Too close.

[Glynis] I would just...

I always wanted to
be somethin' special.

- [Dwight] Speakin'
of missing pieces,

I've got somethin'
that I wanna show you.

- Do you-
- I know this.

- You recognize that box?
- Yeah.

I...

- [Dwight] We found that
in the Howard's house.

It was buried with
some other things.

Yeah, I...

This was, I remember this.

I think you wind it
on the bottom here.

[music box playing]

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.
[music box playing]

[sniffles] That's crazy.

I...

Yeah, this was...

[sniffles]

[dramatic music]

This was mine [sniffles].

[pensive music]

- [Charlie] Why would they
bury all of her things here?

I don't know.

What do you think?

[Dwight] I don't know.

[pensive music]

- [Kaiser] Is she really a
lost child of the Howard's?

As intriguing as
that theory sounds,

we needed to focus on the
more plausible explanations.

- [Woman] Have fun
on your big day.

Happy birthday.

[Girl] Who, me?

- [Kaiser] During
our investigation,

Dwight was called back
in for questioning,

as more evidence of his possible
involvement was discovered.

Do you know this man?

I don't believe so.

[Detective] Edward Baker.

Yeah, yeah.

Sure, I'm sorry, yeah.

- Were you aware that
your wife knew him?

- Yeah, they would
hustle together.

[gentle music]

[Kaiser] Edward Baker was born

and raised in
Springfield, Tennessee,

and was a close
childhood friend of Emily

and their friendship
turned into something more

when they dated
throughout high school.

They were sweet together.

I thought they were
the perfect pair.

They seemed pretty cute.

Very flirtatious around each
other, high school sweetheart.

- Eddie was two
years ahead of us.

Yeah, they were always together.

- When she went off to college,
they broke up unfortunately.

- [Ashley] They tried the
long distance relationship,

but it just didn't work out.

- [Kaiser] So, when
she came back here,

they started hanging out again?

- Yeah, I mean, he
worked a few blocks away

in this office building
over here down on Eighth

and he'd come by for
lunch or just to visit.

- When Emily moved back
to take care of her mom,

of course Edward came around
and we hung out with everybody.

So, it wasn't unusual
for him to be around.

- They still hang
out time to time.

I'm not sure if
Dwight knows about it,

but I mean, it's
just a friendship.

Everybody knows that.

[Dwight]

- [Heather] Dwight's not
really a fan of Eddie.

I mean, can you blame him?

- Dwight just like,
really did not like

that Edward was comin' around

and I think he kind
of let that be known.

[Dwight]

You wanna start right now?

[Dwight]

- No, no, no, no,
no, no [laughs].

Let's at least get
home first [laughs].

[Dwight laughs]

- Were you aware of Edward
and your wife's history?

- Mr. Baker came
forward yesterday.

He was a little
worried, feelin' guilty.

Thought that this information

might help our
investigation a little bit.

Emily, what the hell

is wrong with y'all?

You knew that

when you moved here.

- you tell me about him?
- You knew.

Mr. Nixon, I don't have a body

and I don't have a murder weapon

but what I do have is a motive.

♪ Remember the free

♪ Remember to hold
your head high ♪

♪ Remember to smile some

♪ And just listen awhile

♪ Practiced enough, yeah

♪ That's what I told myself

Look at us.

Mm hm.

Play with you.

♪ Nervously asked
you your name ♪

♪ And that's when the
world seemed to stop ♪

♪ And I'd died when you
looked up like that ♪

♪ Took my breath away

♪ Knocked me flat on my back

♪ I knew right then and there

♪ In that first second stare

♪ It would be awhile

♪ And everything
falls out of focus ♪

♪ You walked through the door

♪ And one thing that's clear
to me helplessly hopeless ♪

♪ I'm all right with that
in a room full of people ♪

♪ Everything else disappears

We need to keep our
focus on Wayne Ritchie.

Wayne practically
grew up on the land,

and his house is nearby.

I've been lookin'
at the city history,

old maps and things like that.

So, what I'm wonderin'
is if this entrance

or this cave actually right
here near Wayne's house

runs towards the Howard's
land, or maybe even underneath.

We need to check
this out and see

if we can find any tunnels
or anything like that

that maybe some of these people
could have just fallen into.

[eerie music]

- We headed out
to find the cave,

and see if it could answer
some of our questions.

Not knowing the exact
location of the cave,

we decided to split up
to cover more ground.

Charlie and I headed
directly east,

while Dwight headed northeast.

Here you go.

[eerie music]

Dwight, do you copy?

[Dwight] Yes, go ahead.

Just testing the range.

Do you see anything?

[Dwight] No, nothing yet.

You guys?

Just woods.

[eerie music]

Charlie, come here!

I found it!

[Charlie] Seriously?

Yes!

It's gotta be it.

It's the only cave we've seen.

Come on, come on.

Dwight, do you copy?

Dwight?

- [Charlie] He's
probably out of range.

- [Kaiser] It probably goes
down 20 feet, it's narrow.

- [Charlie] Okay, I don't
wanna risk the camera.

I guess I'll shoot on my phone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

- let's do that.
- Okay, let's go.

[Kaiser] Okay.

Charlie, how you doin'?

[Charlie]

All right, be careful.

[Charlie]

[Kaiser] [chuckles]

[eerie music]

[Charlie]

[Kaiser]

Oo!

[Charlie]

[Charlie]

[Charlie]

[Charlie]

[Kaiser]

[Charlie]

[Kaiser]

[Kaiser]

[Charlie]

[Kaiser]

[Charlie]

[Kaiser]

[Kaiser]

All right, you guys okay?

[Kaiser] Yeah, we're good.

- You okay?
- Yeah, I'm good.

Did you find anything?

- Well, we didn't
make it too far in

before we hit a blocked part

but it looks like it might
be a cave-in, though.

The rocks are wet, water
ran down the walls.

- So maybe the cave
was under the pond?

[eerie music]

After exploring the
cave, I think at one time

the cave extended past the
area, which is now a pond.

Take a look at this.

Here's the cave and here's
where Sarah Winston disappeared,

in the same spot where the
pond was built six years later.

Emily's metal detector
ring where we found it,

this is where the
Lopez's disappeared.

The Howard's house.

It's all one line.

So, if the cave does run
underneath all these spots,

this could all be connected.

[eerie music]

- There are caves everywhere
in Robertson County

and we are told that
they are all connected.

And at Cross Plains
you have Kilgore Cave

where Thomas Kilgore,
the first white person

in Robertson County spent

the winter hiding
from the Indians.

Our historical society had
our annual picnic there

about two weeks ago.

- [Dwight] If we could
get a better understanding

of what's below the property,

it could help us get answers
about the disappearances.

The Vietcong had networks

of tunnels that they used
during the Vietnam War.

They could come up through
one of these openings,

they could snatch someone
out of the platoon

down into the tunnel,
seal up the hatch,

and nobody would
know what's going on.

They'd be like, "Where's Joe?"

Well, Joe's down in the bowels

of the earth somewhere.

[eerie music]

- Right now they're
gonna be runnin'

some ground penetrating radar
over the top of the site.

They'll lay out a grid
pattern first and literally,

it'll map out every inch,

it'll penetrate just
like a water saw does.

So if we had any ground
that's been disturbed recently

or any type of cave
system underneath us,

it'll pick that up as well.

Once they identify
a cave or a cavern,

we'll be able to identify
whether it does connect

to any other systems on the
property, includin' the pond.

[Man] One, two, three.

There you go.

- We're looking at the
site scanning sonar,

which is directly
underneath the boat,

penetrates all the way down
to the bottom of the lake.

Okay, so if there's a body,

it should appear like a
white blob or a white-

Yes, on either screen here,

it'll come up either
white or kinda grayish.

It'll pick up anything
that might've fallen

into the lake accidentally
and maybe drowned,

such as an animal.

So, we don't wanna put a
diver down on somethin'

that's not truly human remains.

As you come up here
if you look at that

where the boat is right now,

directly underneath there,

you can see a black kind of
indentation to the red U,

and that's an indication that
there is an opening there.

- By opening deep, do
you mean like a cave or-

- It can be a cave
or it could be

just a really big depression

in the bottom of the lake

but that would
appear to be a cave.

It's goin' that
northerly direction,

almost directly where
the boat is right now.

- So, in the same
direction as the house?

Same direction as the house.

[dramatic music]

- [Kaiser] Have you
guys ever found a shaft

that connects to a
whole cave system?

Absolutely.

And that's most of the
time what you do find.

You'll find a smaller
opening that'll lead

into a bigger cavern
or a bigger opening.

Diving in the shaft
is extremely dangerous

'cause only one diver
can go one at a time.

So, we're gonna take
every precaution we can

to make sure the
divers stay safe.

- [Kaiser] Which one of you
are going down the shaft?

- T-Roy.

- [Kaiser] So, you've
done this a few times?

Yes.

- [Kaiser] What's
it like down there?

It's tight.

So, what we're seein' down

there right now
is low visibility.

See by the [indistinct].

- [T-Roy]

[Mike] Top side, copy.

Located the shaft.

- [T-Roy]

Top side, copy.

Rock walled, entering the shaft.

Real good sign that
we're in rock walls,

so this potentially
could be a cave system.

The shaft should connect
us down to the bottom.

This is not the
bottom of the lake.

He's about 10 feet down now.

- [T-Roy]

- What'd he just say?
- Top side, copy.

We have remains.

They have remains.

Start to see a little on the
GoPro?

And you have it
here on the sonar.

You see the difference
in that white-ish gray

we were talkin' about earlier.

You can start to see
the remains right there.

- We don't know what kind
of remains though, right?

- We don't know until
he can physically

and visually get
up on top of it.

- [T-Roy]

Top side, copy.

Human remains,
floatin' the buoy.

[Dwight exhales]

[pensive music]
[water gurgling]

- [Susanna] This is
Susanna Connor reporting

for Channel 2 News
from an abandoned piece

of farmland outside
of Springfield,

where skeletal remains of a
young girl have been found.

[eerie music]

[phone ringing]

Yeah.

Okay, yeah, no, no,
I appreciate it.

The results are in.

The body was identified
as Sarah Winston.

[dramatic music]

[singer vocalizing]

- [Roger] I knew she
was still out there.

- [Kaiser] Wait, how did
Sarah end up in the pond?

It wasn't there in 1994.

[singer vocalizing]

- So, if the Howard's
left Springfield in 1979,

and hadn't returned,
then who built

that pond on that property?

- That big sinkhole
opened up over there.

It was in '98.

It just boom, like that.

And that hole was massive.

I went over there several times

to just stand there and
look down into the thing.

It was huge.

With the Howard's gone,

nobody went up there
to put any sign

to warn people about it.

A farmer's cow wandered off

and ended up in that
sinkhole, fell right in.

We did get her out, though.

She was kinda shaken
up but she's okay.

- Yes, Sir, because
of safety purposes,

we agreed to fill the
pond in with water.

Well, they went in and
filled it with rock

and hard clay and
stuff just to try

to build a base in it where
it would retain the water.

- [Kaiser] Who filled
up that sinkhole?

Wayne Ritchie.

- That pond was built
by Wayne Ritchie.

Wayne Ritchie.

- Well, I loaned him the
equipment to do it with

in exchange for fishin'
rights of course.

- My first thought was that
he drowned her somewhere else,

kept her body and
then moved her back

to the pond once he built it.

- [Kaiser] Could Sarah's
body have been moved

to the pond after
she was murdered?

We would need to talk

to the forensic
pathologist to find out.

- After we determined
that the cause

or manner of death was not
from gunshot or a stab wound,

we then turned our
investigation towards drowning

since the skeleton
was found in the pond.

We were gonna look at the
presence or absence of diatoms.

- [Kaiser] Diatoms are
photosynthesizing algae

that are present in every
aquatic environment.

- When we studied
the bone marrow,

we noticed diatoms present,

indicating that the cause
of death was drowning.

- [Kaiser] Every body of
water has its own unique

and distinct form of diatom,

kind of like a fingerprint.

- We took a sample in
the pond at Howard's Mill

and studied the signature
of the diatoms present.

Interestingly, it was an exact
match to the diatoms present

in the bone marrow
of Sarah Winston.

- [Kaiser] The presence
of diatoms in the lungs

and bone marrow would indicate

that the person entered the
water alive and then drowned.

The absence of diatoms would
prove a body had been dumped

in the water after
they were deceased.

- Based on these findings,
the science shows

that Sarah Winston
actually drowned in 2004.

[eerie music]

- So in 1994, 10-year-old
Sarah Winston disappears.

In 2017 the body of
Sarah Winston is found

in the pond on Howard's Mill,

but the forensics report
shows she drowned in 2004.

So, that means she should
have been 20 years old

in 2004 when she drowned,

but she was still
at 10 years old,

the same age she was in 1994
before the pond was ever built.

Are you confused yet?

[eerie music]

- Human time travel
may not be probable

but it is potentially possible.

Technically, we are
all time travelers.

In the past 24 hours, I
traveled one day in time.

I presume that you did too.

The real question is whether

or not different people
travel faster than others.

Einstein thought so.

In the case of Sarah Winston,

you have forensic proof that
a 10-year-old girl disappeared

and then drowned at the
same age 10 years later.

The Glynis Howard story doesn't

have the science to back it up,

but the coincidence
of them both happening

on the same piece of
bland is compelling.

- [Kaiser] Are you
saying you believe

that Sarah Winston traveled
10 years into the future,

returning to this exact
same spot she disappeared

where a pond had been
built and then drowned?

You have two related cases

of people with age discrepancies

connected to the same location,

and one of them is still living.

I would ask the one
that's still living.

[eerie music]

[door creaking]

Yeah.

It's all familiar.

[eerie music]

Your old room.

No.

No, I've never been
in this room before.

- [Dwight] But this is the
only child's room in the house.

I don't remember this room.

When I, I remember
I took naps though,

upstairs in this room.

[eerie music]

Yeah, I took naps
in here with my dad,

but I had my own room,
was in the basement.

So.

The basement?

Uh huh.

I mean, this place is so...

I mean, I know I was here.

I know I was here.

It's crazy, I felt
like it was bigger.

It was like twice this
size when I was here.

Like this wall wasn't here

'cause I had like a dresser and-

Shine the light on here.

Let me see.

Yeah, this board is...

- Hold that light right there.
- Okay.

[Glynis] Be careful.

[eerie music]

- Got it?
- Yeah, I got it.

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

Oh my God!

- Yeah, there's something
- Yeah, yeah,

- in there.
- yeah.

I knew this wall wasn't here.

I knew this wall wasn't here.

[eerie music]

[Dwight] All right?

[Charlie] Camera.

Got it.

Oh my God.

- [Dwight] What are
you seein', guys?

- [Glynis] Oh my God,
this is all my stuff.

These are my...

I remember these books.

It was up against
this wall but...

And this picture.

I mean, I looked at this
picture every single day.

[Dwight] Wow.

It's still here.

Yeah, I...

Like...

I'm kinda in shock right now.

I'm shaking.

This bed, this was my bed.

This was my bed and
all my things and...

- Oh my God!
- Oh God!

[Charlie] Get outta here!

[dramatic music]

- [Reporter] For the
second time in 28 days,

skeletal remains of a child

have been discovered on the
abandoned Howard's Mill.

Police questioned a
suspect, Wayne Ritchie,

after discovering the body
of 10 year old Sarah Winston

who had been missing since 1994.

- I don't care what
those scientists say.

I know Wayne did it.

- When I heard
about Sarah Winston,

I immediately, I
just got chills.

I mean, that could've been me.

I guess I'm surprised.

I really didn't see him
as the murdering kind.

- Never, I'll never
believe that he did that.

[phone ringing]

Hello?

- [Glynis] Hi, yes,
this is Glynis Williams.

I just, I was watching
the news and the man,

Wayne Ritchie, I think they
said his name was, I know him.

I know who that is.

[Dwight] You've met him?

- [Glynis] I'm positive
that that man is my father.

[singer vocalizing]

[shutter flashes]

[Detective]

[eerie music]

- [Dwight] All right,
what you go for me, Dan?

- Well, the lab results
are in, brother.

You're not gonna believe it.

Wayne Ritchie and Glynis
Williams are not related.

[Dwight] Okay.

- [Dan] Rebecca Howard and
Glynis Williams are not related.

- [Dwight] Wait, now
what are you talkin'-

[tutting] There's more.

Rebecca Howard and
Jane Doe are related.

[dramatic music]

[pensive music]

- When was the last time
you saw your daughter?

[dramatic music]

[eerie music]

[Wayne]

- [Kaiser] Wayne
Ritchie didn't recognize

the photo of the
real Glynis Howard,

but was able to identify
Glynis Williams,

although referring to
her as Glynis Howard.

He seemed just as
confused as everyone else.

[Bob]

[pensive music]

This just all seems to point

more and more to Wayne Ritchie.

The fact that we have
a body in the room

that he admits he sealed,

then we've got a body in
a pond that he had field.

The question now
is, where is Emily?

- [Kaiser] Are you
happy with the arrest?

[somber music]

So, are we done?

No.

I still need to find my wife.

[Dwight sighs]

Wayne, I need your help.

All right.

I mean, I'll help
however I can help.

All right.

What I'm havin' a
problem wrappin'

my mind around is this.

You admit to all these things,

- buildin' that wall?
- Yeah.

Takin' that little baby,

but what about Emily?

What about my wife, Wayne?

- I told you Dwight,
told you from the start,

I had nothin' to do with that.

I had nothin' to do with that.

- [Wayne] Why are
you in the video

she took right before
she went missin'?

That's you standin' right there.

I don't know.

That wasn't me.

It's 'cause I go
out there sometimes

and when I walk around I hunt.

That ain't a crime.

No, that's not a crime.

But you didn't notice her there

even though she was
talkin' awfully loud

and she wasn't
exactly blendin' in?

Well, so what?

If I did, it don't
mean I hurt her.

It don't mean I done
nothin' with her.

Sometimes I go out there and
I watch people a little bit,

see if they
disappear or whatnot.

- Are you sayin' you saw
what happened to her?

Naw.

A dog ran off into the woods,

and I followed the
dog into the woods.

I figured she went home.

- If you don't have
anything to hide,

while are you always chasin'
people off that property?

- 'Cause I wanna make
sure nobody out there disappears again

and I wanna make sure
nobody else pops up,

like Glynis done.

You were just walkin' by?

I was just walkin' by.

They took her, not me.

Who?

Who took her?

I had nothin' to do with this.

I had nothin' to do with this.

- I had nothin' to,
- This person disappeared

- y'all can...
- only a few weeks ago.

Who took her, Wayne?

[eerie music]

- Now you know we've got
several people out there

that claim they saw lights

but there's no proof of that
so we can't go anything there.

And you've got the Lopez's,

you've got Sarah Winston
and you've got Glynis Howard

all disappearing
from the same land.

[Roger] Sarah!

[Sarah's Mom] Sarah?

[Roger] Sarah!

- Did you see where she went?
- Where is she?

- Some people
believe theoretically

that the potential for
traveling through time,

forward through
time is possible.

[singer vocalizing]
[soft music]

- 1979, Glynis Howard goes
missing age six, all right?

She shows back up
forensics report

that Glynis Howard's body found
in a wall dead at age six.

Look, that's 10 years.

Sarah Winston, disappears
at age 10, 1994.

10 years later
forensics again says

she shows up drowned,
dead but the same age.

There's also the twin paradox.

The idea being that if
you take identical twins

under the right circumstances,

one could travel to
space and returning

have aged slower than the
one who remained on Earth.

Now, what's with the 10 years?

Now, you tell me how somebody's,

they disappear at a certain age,

their bodies are kept
and then they show

back up dead at a certain age.

- So, you're sayin' that Emily
will come back in 10 years?

- More importantly,
will she show back up

in 10 years the same age
as when she disappeared?

[eerie music]

- [Kaiser] Maybe Roger
Winston's theories

weren't so far fetched.

Maybe he's not as crazy
as everyone thinks.

Twin Falls, Idaho, 1987,

this is an interview with
a boy named Cole Thomas,

eight year old boy.

He claimed he'd been
missin' for two days

and when they found him
he'd only been gone,

he said four minutes, okay?

So, the only thing
that he remembered

was the distinct feelin'
of bein' watched.

Texarkana, Arkansas,
2001, right?

"I saw my sister climbing
through the second floor window

but not really climbing.

It was more like
she was floatin',

and when I got to the
window, she was gone," right?

- And there were
triangular lights

that appeared at the horizon.

- The lights comin'
in the window.

They would rotate and move.

- And lights floatin'
in the distance.

I got a lot of this stuff here

and it's just missin' persons

with no recollection of
where they've been, okay?

Just, they all know that
they've been watched.

- They were all lined up
on the horizon, watching.

[wind chime chiming]
[pensive music]

- The entities appear
to study their subjects,

first as many
abducted individuals

share the feeling
of being watched.

All right?

"Sometimes months
before the incident,

while there are numerous
vivid accounts of abduction

there are just as many lost
time incidents," all right?

"The victim goes missing for
days, months, even years,

with no memory of being gone

and in the case
of Marilyn Graham,

showing no signs of aging

despite being missing
for over 10 years."

Okay, look at all
of these, all right?

And you wanna say that
you don't believe?

- I'm lookin' at all this,
but what are you sayin' here?

What am I saying?

Just read it.

- [Kaiser] If the 10 year time
travel theory is possible,

could it be that
Glynis Howard returned

to the exact same
spot in the basement

where she disappeared only

to find herself trapped
behind the wall Wayne built?

Did a starving child try to claw

her way out of what
would become her tomb?

And did Sarah Winston return

to the same spot she disappeared

where upon it had been
built and then drowned?

Did Roger Winston just
miss an opportunity

to save his daughter
from drowning

the night he found her
bow floating in the pond?

- [Roger] I think she
was trying to come home.

[singer vocalizing]
[soft music]

- [Kaiser] But then
what about the Lopez's?

Where did they go?

And what about Glynis Williams

who Wayne found in
the Howard's field?

Where did she come from?

And then there is a reason
why we started this journey,

Dwight's wife, Emily.

Maybe it all doesn't
add up perfectly

but something unnatural
is clearly happening

on this abandoned piece of
land called Howard's Mill.

- [Wayne] No, you
need to understand,

sometimes it takes people and
sometimes it gives people.

Best just to stay away.

For the first time in my life,

I really don't
know what to think.

I mean, we finally got
Wayne Ritchie in jail.

I don't know if
he did it, Kaiser.

You got people movin'
at different speeds,

reappearin' and disappearin'.

Little girls just poppin' up

in rooms with no windows
or doors, and Emily.

I can't find my wife.

This whole thing's crazy.

It's just got my mind spinnin'.

I feel lost.

- [Kaiser] So, what
are you gonna do now?

Keep lookin.

- [Kaiser] Do you
think she'll come back?

I mean, yeah.

I have to believe that,

but if she doesn't,

I will be right here 10 years
from now waitin' on her.

I just...

[gentle music]

♪ When everything
falls out of focus ♪

♪ You walk through the door

♪ And one thing
that's clear to me ♪

♪ Helplessly hopeless

♪ I'm all right with that

♪ In a room full of people

♪ Everything else disappears

♪ Everything else disappears

♪ Everything else disappears

♪ Everything else

[eerie music]

[dramatic music]

[eerie music]