Margaret threaded the film into the reader, squinting as headlines flickered across the screen. March 12, 1985: “Young Man Missing After Night Out.” March 20: “Police Expand Search to Riverbanks.” April 3: “No Leads in Armitage Case; Family Pleads…” Each article carried the same hollow uncertainty.
She scoured the internet again until her eyes blurred, but apart from old clippings and half-dead message boards, there wasn’t much. People had speculated endlessly: murder, debts, an affair gone wrong. The theories spiraled into folklore.