Derek discovered the following day that quite a few people seemed to have gone missing around the time of the accident. The information wasn’t in the newspapers as he’d hoped, but on missing persons’ sites on the Internet. One of them caught his interest the moment he came across it. A man had reported to Denver police that his daughter and her family had set out from their home in Durango to come for a visit. The last time he’d spoken to them was the day after they left. They had called that morning, saying they had had car trouble and would have to wait until it was fixed before continuing their trip. He hadn’t heard from them since.
“If it wasn’t for the fact the car had Denver plates, not La Plata County ones, it could be them,” Derek murmured as he read the brief report again. The ma
