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The mother claimed her seventeen-year-old daughter ran away because of family rules. She handed me a $2,500 check and a photo, but she couldn't provide a single friend's name or an email address. The house was spotless, yet the daughter's bedroom door had a brand-new knob and the trash was empty.

Investigation into the neighborhood revealed a wall of silence and a fear response from neighbors. When I located the girl's diary, the most important pages had been removed with a razor blade. It wasn't until I looked at the Social Services history that the timeline stopped making sense.

The file had been closed three times by outside interference. A hidden list of twelve names found inside the diary's binding suggested the girl didn't run to escape—she ran to be found by someone who could move the evidence past local reach.

Watch as the paper trail reveals a connection between a consulting business and a string of administrative closures that shouldn't have happened. Subscribe for more case files.

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