1986. 26-year-old Wanda Jean Mays' aunt goes to wake her niece. A knock on the door receives no reply… It would be 22 years before her family learned about the tragic, stranger-than-fiction fate of their beloved Wanda Jean.

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/570853090/?terms=%22wanda%20jean%20mays%22

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"Road to Nowhere." Disappeared, season 7, episode 3, Investigation Discovery, 2016.