In December of 2003, a 38-year-old man was on his way to pick up his two daughters in Folsom, Pennsylvania. After a phone call letting the babysitter know, he would be a couple minutes late, he was never heard from again. Until years later his car would be found in a nearby lake. This is the story of James Amabile.
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