True stories of people who disappeared in the Great Smokies Mountains.
The disappearances are profiled in 3 categories.
Part I - Vanished Without a Trace
Pauline Melton, Trenny Gibson, and Dennis Martin vanished during daylight, from different locations, on different dates, and surrounded by other people.
Part II - Puzzlers
An unidentified boy was found frozen to death in 1915. His identity remained a mystery for 60 years.
Abe Ramsey, age 3, wandered away from home on March 11, 1919. The story that he was never found may not be true.
Part III - Deliberate Disappearances
William Bradford Bishop, Jr., indicted for murdering his family, disappeared in 1976.
Eric Robert Rudolph, a bombing suspect, disappeared in January 1998.
The FBI is still searching for these men.
Excerpt
The places where the events in this book occurred are real. You can visit them. We have included information about them, and included a map on page 144.
If you visit any of these sites, you will leave more amazed and mystified that the event occurred than mere words can ever convey.
Experienced searchers accept a sad and sobering truth. The Smoikes are full of secrets they refuse to yield to mere mortals.
Six straight men in the cast plus free Tex-Mex food? My friend Lida Rose sure knew how to persuade me. I signed on the dotted line and dusted off my dance shoes. I knew Bad Business on the Brazos would have them rolling in the aisles and standing up
While trying to make it big on Broadway, dancer Abby Fouchet finds herself falling in love, falling in rehearsal (!), and trying to outwit a clever killer out to destroy the man she loves.
