Ellen Hover, 23, a White woman, was living in Manhattan in the summer of 1977 when an ordinary note in her datebook became the last breadcrumb anyone could follow. On July 15, 1977, she vanished from her apartment after writing down a name for that day—John Berger—as if it were just another appointment in a busy New York week.
Friends and family tried to reason it out at first: a missed call, a delayed trip, a sudden change of plans. But the silence stretched, and the small details h
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