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It's September 9, 1996 in Spotsylvania, Virginia.

In the dying moments of a fall afternoon,

a can of grape soda warms on the front porch of Phyllis Silva's home.

The soda belongs to Phyllis's daughter, 16-year-old Sophia.

The teenager, however, is nowhere to be found.

Phyllis calls around to friends and schoolmates with no luck,

as an afternoon deepens into evening, an uncomfortable

feeling hardens into cold fear. Phyllis calls police to tell them her daughter has gone

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