Before we get into today's story, if Child Death is a sensitive topic for you, you might want to skip this episode.

Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours.

Right now there is no trace.

The investigators say evidence leads them to believe that she's dead.

Stick my nose back in that trail that's all I can do.

This is already gone.

All right.

Go on.

Some people are just unlucky and tragedy dogs them at each step.

Other people have tragedies looming large around them and continue to walk away unscathed.

Ed Amos was one of those people until the pile of bodies around him got too big to ignore.

Come with me to Anderson, Indiana in the middle of World War II when Lowell Edwin Amos Jr. was born.

Lowell Edwin Ed Amos was born January 4, 1943 in Anderson, Indiana to parents Mary and Lowell.

He was one of three children. His mother Mary was a high school teacher and his father was an engineer.

His childhood was largely uneventful.

Ed graduated from Madison Heights High School in 1960 and for my Detroit area listeners,

that's Madison Heights High School in Anderson, Indiana, not in Michigan.

After high school he joined the Marine Corps serving two years before taking a job at the Delco Ramy Division.

I believe this was the same place that his father was an engineer.

As the years passed, Ed tended to embellish his military service to suit his needs,

claiming that he saw combat in Vietnam.

The Indianapolis News reported Ed was a one-time foreman at Guide Lamp, later called Inland Fisher Guide Division of General Motors,

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