Early Monday morning on October 19, 1992, 23-year-old Laura

Hoteling was seen leaving her Bethesda, Maryland home,

walking to the train station on her way to work.

She never arrived.

A clue to her disappearance was a peculiar strand of hair

found in her hairbrush.

Laura Hoteling was an ambitious young woman with a bright future.

She had recently graduated from Harvard University and had moved back home with her mother Penny.

Laura worked for a public relations firm in Washington, DC and was contemplating law school.

On the Saturday before she disappeared, Laura attended the Gold Cup's

steeple chase horse races in Virginia.

When Laura didn't show up for work, a co-worker called the house, but there was no answer.

Laura's mother was out of town on a business trip.

Next, Laura's brother Warren was called. He lived nearby.

When he arrived at the house, he found that the back door was unlocked, but there was

nothing missing inside.

As time went on, nobody had heard from her.

And this was just totally out of character for her.

We checked her bank account, credit cards, checking account.

There was nothing there where she had withdrawn money that she would have needed to survive

somewhere else.

Flyers with Laura's photograph were distributed at the train station in the hope that someone

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