The Cleveland-based investigator knew that if his daughters disappeared, the pain of not knowing their fate would be worse than death.
The woman on the other end of the telephone line said in a thick Polish accent that the missing girl, her niece, left her home on the southern coast of New York's Long Island in September with a man from Ohio whom she met online.
The girl's parents had filed a missing person report in Suffolk County. Detectives exhausted their leads.
Then, a little more than a month ago, the girl called home. She spoke quietly as though afraid someone nearby would hear, then abruptly said she had to go and hung up. Using the phone number from the caller ID, the authorities tried to track the girl, but again hit dead ends.
The aunt knew an attorney who knew a second attorney who had referred her to Baeppler. Could he help?
