Elaine Nix wanted to rededicate her life to her faith after a sermon about forgiveness. But on Sept. 20, 1999, she went to a payphone to talk to her boyfriend and never came back. Retired investigator Marty Nix walks us through the missing person’s investigation before Elaine was found. 

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