Today, The Sun has a story about the women who disappeared in Springfield thirty years ago: NEVER FOUND Creepy mystery of how two pals & mum vanished without a trace – with only cue being disturbing answer phone message.
As I mentioned in the book review for the recent novel Gone in the Night, this case continues to resonate vividly in Springfield.
Probably because it’s a smaller city, with less crime than other places, because it’s unresolved, and because it’s in living memory.
I mean, I cannot think of a comparable case in either St. Louis or Milwaukee, but I have been out of their stadtgeists for a while now.