In a cold December in 1946, a Bennington college student embarked on an afternoon hike in Vermont, but never returned.

After an extensive search for the 18-year-old, the case ultimately ran cold.

Today, we discussed the disappearance of Paula Jean Weldon. This is Red Web.

Welcome back Task Force to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about Unsolved Mysteries,

true crime, and the supernatural.

I'm your resident mystery enthusiast Trevor Collins, and joining me hearing this case for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.

Oh, missing person's case.

That's always rough.

I feel like they're always very intriguing, but there's little to go on.

Hence why they're missing.

Yep, absolutely.

You know, missing person cases are one of those things where if you had a time machine,

I feel like there'd be a high percentage of people that would want to explore a missing person's case at some point. Like, if you have, like, I don't know,

I would say like five events that you can go back to. I feel like a missing person case would

be like number four on everyone's list or something. There's something darkly intriguing about it.

And I think you're onto something

because there's always some sort of hindsight where you're like, God, if we only knew that this,

that, and the other happened at the moment when we were investigating, maybe we would have found them.

So I feel like you're right. Like a lot of people would want to go back because we feel like

with that hindsight, we could have solved it. And I think that's what's so

curious about these missing persons cases is because it feels like it's just right there,

like right at your fingertips. I agree. But out of reach. What would be your top three?

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