Nathan Edberg: Missing Since April 14, 1999

The last time Jackie Edberg saw her son, she followed him into the driveway. She wanted to leave him with something — an encouraging word, a mother’s instinct doing what mothers’ instincts do when they sense a child carrying too much weight.

“Nathan, hang in there. You’re going to feel good again soon.”

He turned back and said, “I love you, Mom. I want to feel good again.”

Then he climbed into his white Ford Ranger and drove away. That was April 14, 1999. Nathan Edberg was 21 years old. Nobody has seen him since.

Zoe Campos: Missing Since November 17, 2013 **SOLVED**

Before dawn, Zoe Campos told her mother she was on her way. Then she vanished into a Lubbock night that kept its secret for five years. At first, it was only a delay. Not a disappearance. Not yet. Just a gap in the night wide enough to be annoying, then strange, then impossible to explain.

Sometime around 2:30 in the morning on November 18, 2013, Zoe Campos sent her mother a text message saying she was on her way to pick her up from work. It was the kind of message no one imagines will outlive the person who sent it. Brief, practical, ordinary. A daughter in motion. A promise measured in minutes. Then the minutes passed. Then more of them. And somewhere in that quiet failure to arrive, the shape of the case began to form.

Vicki Sundgaard: Missing Since April 19, 1987

In the hushed pre-dawn hours of Easter Sunday, April 19, 1987, a young mother named Vicki Arleen Sundgaard vanished into the chill Minnesota night, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions that still haunt the small town of Alexandria. Attending a lively gathering on Cedar Street, the 23-year-old seemed like any other reveler seeking respite from everyday burdens. But as the party faded and the first light of day crept in, Vicki was gone—swallowed by an unseen force, her fate a riddle wrapped in silence. No cries for help, no signs of struggle; she simply ceased to exist in the world she knew, never to be heard from again.

Brandon Victor Swanson: Missing Since May 14, 2008 **UPDATED**

During the early morning hours of May 14, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Victor Swanson was walking alone through the dark farmland of southwestern Minnesota while speaking with his father by telephone. His car had become stuck in a roadside ditch, and Brandon believed he was somewhere between Marshall and the small town of Lynd. His parents had been driving through that area trying to find him, but they could not see his headlights and he could not see theirs. Frustrated, Brandon decided to leave the vehicle and walk toward what he believed were the lights of Lynd.

Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr.: Missing Since February 5th, 2005

The disappearance of Danielle Imbo (34) and Richard Petrone Jr. (35) on February 19, 2005, represents a significant anomaly in modern law enforcement records due to the total absence of a subsequent forensic, digital, or physical footprint. Petrone was a lifelong Philadelphia-area resident, employed full-time at his family’s business, Viking Pastries, in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

He was a single father to a teenage daughter and had no documented ties to organized crime, illicit narcotics, or severe financial debt. Imbo, residing in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, was a loan processor and the mother of a toddler. She was actively navigating a highly contentious separation from her estranged husband, Joe Imbo. The two victims had previously dated and were casually attempting a reconciliation, though friends indicated Imbo was prioritizing her financial independence and child custody arrangements over a serious commitment.

Alexis Patterson: Missing Since May 3, 2002

The distance was nothing. That is the part that still makes the story feel impossible.

A half-block from home to school. A stretch of sidewalk so ordinary it should have disappeared into the background of daily life. A little girl walks out the door, carrying her backpack, still irritated from the night before, still wearing the emotional bruise of a childhood punishment. She is seven years old. She is close enough to home that the world should not yet have had room to harm her.

Joshua Guimond: Missing Since November 9th, 2002

Joshua Guimond disappeared inside a distance so short it still feels impossible. The walk from Metten Court to St. Maur House on the campus of Saint John’s University should have taken about three minutes. It was not a dangerous route by any obvious measure. It was not a highway shoulder, not a bar district, not a remote gravel road, not some place where people later say, “He should never have been there.” It was a familiar campus path between a poker game and a dorm room.