I didn't understand that people go missing this way. It's a very odd thing. You have no idea what it's like to lose a human being on your watch.

Gary DeVore was an A-list screenwriter who disappeared without a trace in 1997.

I had the biggest action stars in Hollywood searching for my husband.

But nobody really knows what happened. We try to find out on

Witness, Fade to Black. Available now, wherever you get your podcasts.

Just a heads up before we begin. This episode contains references to sexual violence and abuse.

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Previously on very scary people, the Ken and Barbie killers.

The picture perfect couple, Paul Bernardo and Carla Homolka, said I do at their lavish wedding on the shores of Lake Ontario, Canada.

That same day, on the neighboring Lake Gibson, the dismembered body of a missing teenage girl named Leslie

Mahaffy was discovered encased in concrete.

And in another district of East Toronto called Scarborough, a serial rapist was on the loose, and his victim survived, but never saw his face.

The manhunt for the Scarborough Rapists lasted three years, but they kept coming up short despite

vigilant police efforts, until he slipped up and a victim got a good look at him. This was a major break in the case.

From her description, the police were able to draw up a composite sketch.

It's May 28th, 1990, and the Toronto Metro-PD's phone lines are ringing off the hook.

It was six years after the first woman was raped in the Scarborough area

that the police finally had their big break.

The composite sketch of the Scarborough rapist

lands on the front page of the Toronto sun that morning.

With the headline, Have you seen this man?

He's described as having a medium muscular build with no facial hair.

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