I was seeing my own detective going out and trying to find out what happened to our daughter

because I wanted answers.

I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anna Sige-Nikolazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation

discoveries to conviction.

And this is Anatomy of Mercury.

I'm excited to talk about this case and it's funny.

It's kind of bringing me back down memory lane a little bit because it's really all about

youth and the things that sometimes teenage romance or even a misplaced trust can lead

to.

And here it led to something awful.

I mean obviously high school brings so many different things, peer pressure.

You know you're trying to be cool.

You're trying to get along with your friends.

You're trying to meet boys.

Or you're trying to meet girls.

Oh absolutely.

I mean as I was looking at everything in this case, it automatically brought me back to

like the first time I had my heart broken.

And it really is all about the things that happened to so many of us and just the pitfalls

of being young and that youthful innocence that usually it all turns out okay but sometimes

like here it just doesn't.

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