Patsy Diane Vineyard, a 20-year-old White woman, vanished from Sackets Harbor, New York, in the spring of 1987, leaving behind the kind of silence that makes a small lakeside community feel suddenly watched. The date attached to what happened next was May 15, 1987—when she was believed to have been killed—though in the days that followed she was simply missing, her absence noticed in the ordinary ways first, and then in the terrifying ones.
When her husband returned and couldn’t fi
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