When Kathy was just 16 years old, she seemingly vanished while walking home from a quick shopping trip in downtown Portland, Maine. If you haven't listened to part one yet, go back and do that first because it covers everything that happened on September 24th, 1971, the day Kathy's father dropped her

off to do some shopping before the much anticipated dance at the YWCA. and the last day the Molten family would ever see Kathy again.

You see, the narrative of Kathy's story for over two decades would be that she simply disappeared,

that no one had any idea where she might be.

Her case received minimal attention by law enforcement in the years immediately following her

disappearance. In 1988, 17 years after the fact, the detective assigned to the

case even went to her parents home to apologize for his predecessor's lack of investigative effort.

In that same meeting, he asked for Kathy's dental records.

There was an unidentified female with the approximate characteristics of their daughter in British Columbia, Canada.

The dental records might help positively identify this victim as Kathy.

But the response from the coroner of British Columbia would state simply and regretfully that the remains were not of Kathy Molton.

That response was placed inside the case file in 1988 and once again Kathy's case went cold.

And it would remain cold until November 12th, 1995,

when a new detective just six months into his new position in the tactical enforcement unit,

also known as the Detective Bureau at the Portland Police Department,

cracked open his newest assignment.

PPD 71-601-61, Molten, Kathy Marie, missing, endangered. That new detective was Kevin Katie.

Kevin Katie literally wrote the book on this case.

The leads and timelines and connections he uncovered alongside

Detective Sergeant Thomas P Joyce Jr. in his many years of working this case are

detailed in that book. I read it front to back in 24 hours because after sending Kevin

Katie a Facebook message and a friend request asking about the case and this

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