In this episode, the disappearance of 16-year-old Karlie Guse turns a night of fear into one of California’s most confusing missing person cases. What starts with a football game that never happened, a frantic call for a ride, a terrified walk in the dark, and a night of paranoia quickly becomes a mystery involving conflicting timelines, strange witness sightings, a missing phone left behind, desert searches, family tension, online speculation, and the unanswered question of how Karlie vanished so close to home.

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