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MAN (over radio): Yeah, Rescue, this is Air Support.

We're at, uh, 1,500.

Is that my daughter? No, no, no.

Is that Lana? Please stand back, sir.

Let him through.

Is that Lana, Mr. Russo?

That's not her.

That's-that's her friend Jamie.

Have you found Lana?

No. No, not yet,

but we're dredging the river, we'll keep searching.

Colter Shaw? Yeah.

Gavin Russo.

Please come on in.

Thanks.

Can I get you something? No, thank you.

That's my daughter Lana.

Three years ago,

her and her best friend Jamie left school.

They were supposed to walk home,

but instead they disappeared.

They found Jamie, right?

Yeah.

Her body washed up from the river three days later.

Drowning was the cause of death.

But they never found Lana.

The police said that they would never stop looking,

but eventually they did.

What'd they tell you?

That my daughter was at the bottom of the river,

that she probably died alongside her friend,

that they hurt themselves,

but they never found a trace.

You said hurt themselves, like some kind of pact? Yeah.

They-they found the girls' backpacks with a-a-a note.

And what'd the note say? "So much pain"

and "I want to die."

But Lana would never kill herself.

I know her.

After her mother passed,

it was just the two of us, and we were very close.

If she was upset or had an emotional crisis,

I believe she would have come to me.

And what about Jamie's parents?

Oh, they just... seemed to accept it.

What do you think happened to your daughter?

Not what the police said.

I mean, I-I could never believe that...

Jamie,

I don't know, but not Lana.

And I just can't, as a...

as a father... (exhales)

I could just never get over the feeling

that she was out there

somewhere.

You're offering a $30,000 reward

that you just posted online.

I don't want to give you false hope.

It's been three years.

The odds are not great.

You're asking someone to find your daughter's body.

Yeah. Wh-What if I told you that I have proof

that she's still alive?

What kind of proof?

That's her, that's my daughter.

This was taken two weeks ago at the county fair.

See? All the way in the back.

You sure that's her?

Her hair i-is different

and she's a little thinner,

but... I know my daughter's eyes.

I know her face.

That's her.

Did you run facial recognition on the photo?

Doing that as we speak.

Photo's too grainy.

I need a higher-resolution photo or a better app.

We could track down the photographer.

I already did that.

Called and left a message, waiting to hear back.

If Lana's alive,

why hasn't she come home or checked in?

Her father thinks maybe someone's after her,

she's staying away to protect him.

He got the idea from a documentary he saw

about another missing kid. Oh, God.

I think he's just...

trying to make sense of it.

This is why I don't like cold cases.

You didn't see his face when he was talking about her.

I think, at the very least,

maybe I can give him some closure.

I'll let you know.

Think that could be Lana Russo?

Mr. Shaw, I would love to say that this was her,

but I think you're chasing ghosts.

I understand she's been presumed dead and her case is closed.

Not officially,

but with budget cuts we just can't put resources into it.

Look...

Gavin kept coming in here with half-baked ideas

and possible sightings, and we checked out every lead,

but none of them ever panned out. (Knocking)

Yeah, thanks. Just put it on the table.

Thank you.

Gavin's convinced she didn't commit suicide.

Maybe it was an accident or something impulsive,

but Gavin is in denial.

Look, I-I have kids, I would be, too.

What he's been through is unimaginable.

But don't-don't get me wrong, okay?

I am not opposed to you investigating this.

This is one of those cases that has haunted me.

There are days when I'm having my coffee

and, I don't know, her... her face comes to me

and then, before you know it, I'm out driving by the river

where we found the other girl as if it happened yesterday.

I'm not here to cast blame. I know, I know.

And the truth is, is that I am happy to share the burden.

And if you find anything... well, hell,

there's no reward big enough for that.

I wouldn't mind taking a look at that note they left.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Oh. Here it is.

And then there's the journal

we found in Lana's backpack

and the entry made on the day they went missing.

A lot of that kind of stuff in there.

Gavin said she was into horror and the supernatural.

Teen angst, right?

Not depression. No, this wasn't teenage angst.

At least not the way I remember it...

big emotions, listening to The Smiths.

I mean, these girls were...

troubled, I guess is what you could call it.

What do you mean? Well, we interviewed

all their classmates and the teachers,

and Lana and her friends were considered, you know,

kind of weird.

You remember how it is.

The social outcasts of the school.

I was, uh, homeschooled, actually.

Ew. One of those snowflakes.

No. No, not that kind of homesc... Um...

If you want to know how build an off-the-grid power generator

or, say, calculate the drop on a 165-grain

seven-millimeter round at 500 yards,

I'm your guy.

Sounds like useful knowledge.

Can be.

Now, these girls were different.

They dressed mainly in black.

They were into dark things, there were a lot of

rumors about them and, and some of the other students.

That's why nobody was really shocked when this went down.

Dark things, like what?

Paranormal activity.

Murder podcasts, the spirit world.

They were obsessed with Harkwood.

It's an old abandoned mental hospital.

They posted a couple videos online. Creepy stuff.

Like I said, these girls were kind of messed up.

How far is the hospital

away from the river where the body was found?

Less than a mile.

You still have those videos they made?

Yeah.

I'm kind of

freaking out right now.

A couple weeks ago,

I read about the Harkwood Witch.

She's the ghost of a lady named Ada Bram,

who was in and out of the mental hospital.

They say, once you know about the Harkwood Witch...

She finds you.

So, what do you think?

I think I missed out on meeting

a lot of interesting people, being homeschooled.

Maybe you did.

You said they were obsessed with Harkwood.

Mind if we go by and check it out?

Welcome to Harkwood. Shall we?

I don't know why we bother with the lock and key

for this place.

Property's so big, it's hard to keep it locked down.

What exactly are you looking for?

I want to get a picture of Lana's state of mind

before she disappeared.

You said there are no videos of her ever being here

like the ones you found in her bedroom?

Not that I ever saw.

All right.

Ready, Homeschool?

There's something about this place that draws people.

A dark energy.

You afraid of ghosts?

Nah, too much of a cynic.

Besides, all the bad people in the world,

who has time for ghosts?