On August 23, 1992, a 21-year-old Grinnell College student, departed Evanston, Illinois, to return to school in Grinnell, Iowa, where she planned to arrive that evening. Later that day, an Illinois State Trooper found a 1985 Pontiac T1000 with New Jersey license plates — and ticketed it as an abandoned vehicle. This is the story of Tammy Zywicki.