Mackenzie Wilson knew about it before she went to law school. Everyone knew about it, fifteen years ago, when Beth Maxwell was reported missing. It was only natural: the story of the young prosecutor who had disappeared in the middle of Billy Teller’s trial—the biggest court case Arizona had seen in a quarter-century—was bound to get media attention. Beth was photogenic, which helped, but what really got people interested was the mystery.
EveryoneboundThat Wednesday evening, Beth had packed her trial notebooks into her file cart, said good night to her paralegal, walked out to her car, and dropped off the face of the earth. No trace of her blue Mini was ever found. No trace of her notebooks, either. There were no sightings, domestic or foreign, no activity on her credit cards, and no reas
