Today, we’re exploring True Crime of the early 20th Century.

In 1927, a man named Edward Henry Smith sat in a New York apartment, surrounded by the files of the world’s most baffling disappearances. He wasn't just a reporter; he was a student of the human shadow. Before his untimely death that same year, Smith would publish Mysteries of the Missing, a collection of cases that defied logic and law.

To Smith, the "Missing" weren't just gone—they were puzzles of chemistry and circumstance. But one case stood above the rest. A case that turned Fifth Avenue into a graveyard of secrets.

Today, we examine Smith’s account of Dorothy Arnold, a young woman of wealth, who walked out of her father’s upscale New York City home into a winter afternoon and never walked out.

Lets follow the trail through the eyes of a man who spent his life hunting for the truth in the dark.

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