Without a Trace

Cindy Song: A 21-year-old apparently vanished, leaving detectives with nothing to go on but hunches and theories. The best lead in the case so far is that she was kidnapped by two career criminals who mistook her for a sex worker and murdered her. However, this theory has yet to be proven and her whereabouts remain a mystery to this day.

Marvin Clark: An Oregonian man mysteriously vanished while en route to visit his daughter over the Halloween weekend in 1926. An accidental discovery made decades later only proved to add another layer of mystery to what’s become one of the oldest unsolved missing person cases in the United States.

On April 17, 2016, a 30-year-old left her home with an unknown man, leaving her husband, boyfriend and four children behind. Friends and family weren’t concerned until she failed to show up to work. Her disappearance was reported nearly a week later. Eight years later, she remains missing and her case remains unsolved.

Two men go missing under similar circumstances in Naples, Florida. Both men were last seen being arrested by a Collier County Sheriff’s Department deputy for driving without a license. Neither made it to the jail, with the deputy claiming to have changed his mind about both arrests and dropping the men off at Circle K convenience stores instead. Collier County Sheriff’s Office has classified both men as missing and endangered citing that both men were last seen in the company of a now-fired CCSO deputy.

In August 2013, a 19-year-old boy was just getting started in life when he began acting incredibly strange. After having an argument with his girlfriend about his alcohol and video game addiction and drug abuse, he took an unexpected trip down the I-5 to visit his parents in Southern California. However, the 6-hour drive quickly turned into a frustrating 24 hour journey when he never arrived at his family’s home. Police found his car driven off an embankment, but there was no sign of him anywhere.

On July 24, 2024, a 28-year-old mysteriously disappeared after telling several friends he was going to walk 55 miles to a different town. He seemed to have changed his mind, with witnesses seeing him head into town, rather than away from it. However, friends and family haven’t seen or heard from him since.

On September 4, 2024, a 31-year-old went on his daily walk around his neighborhood but didn't return home. The disappearance quickly gathered the attention of internet sleuths, eager to solve the case. It has been two weeks since anyone has heard from or seen him, leaving a family desperate for answers.

Today's episode discusses two interesting cases. Both cases involve a homicide of a mother and a kidnapping of their infant child. Every file holds a mystery, every story deserves to be heard, these are the stories of Sylena and Allyson Dalton and Shauna and Zaylee Fryar.

On July 27, 1998, 10-week-old Allyson Dalton was napping with her mother, Sylena Dalton when someone entered their home, killed Sylena and took off with Allyson. Sylena’s murder remains unsolved, Allyson has yet to be found, and the case remains unsolved.

On the evening of May 1, 2011, three-month-old Zaylee Fryar vanished under suspicious circumstances with her mother, Shauna Fryar from their home. Six days later, Shauna's body was found dumped in the Cumberland River, 40 miles from their home. The search for Zaylee was unsuccessful and authorities felt their chances of finding her were slim.

On February 10, 2008, Maura Murray, a 21-year-old nursing student left university after lying to professors about a death in the family. She takes off in the middle of a snowstorm and police are unable to locate her after finding her vehicle crashed along a snowbank. Twenty years later there have been no breaks in the case, leading authorities to wonder what happened to her. This is Maura Murray's story.

On September 12, 2014, three-year-old William Tyrrell disappeared while playing with his sister at their foster grandmother's house. Despite a decade-long investigation involving more than one thousand leads, hundreds of persons of interest and dozens of searches, no trace of the boy has been found. This is William Tyrrell's story.