See, that's not how people disappear.

That's not typically the point where people just disappear into the air.

On a cold, wet, December morning, secluded deep in the woods of Southwest Washington.

They might be hit by a car, they might fall in a ditch.

A team of searchers, forms a line, working their way up a steep hillside, pushing through

thick mud and razor sharp vegetation.

People disappear by getting picked up by somebody they've never met before.

A searcher, hold a line, seize something.

It's a ring, tarnished by the elements.

You pick her up and you take her somewhere and then she's never heard of again.

And then, there's a lot to stuff here, we've got to be vigilant.

The team finds a cell phone cord, knotted around a clump of hair.

What happened on that trip?

I don't know, let's tell you.

Investigators fear it could be connected to a missing person's case, involving 17-year-old

Nikki Kuhnhausen.

Detective was learning that Nikki left her residence early in the morning.

I knew something was wrong and it turns out it was something less wrong.

There were no further contacts or sightings of Nikki since that time.

Knowing that a trans female teenager was missing, those stories don't usually end very

well.

And I just felt like he's in the next day, I know he was solving me.

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