It was a Sunday evening in March of 1964 when 12-year-old Mary Theresa Simpson disappeared from the streets of Elmira, New York. Mary had spent the evening visiting family. Nothing about the night seemed unusual. She was a quiet young girl described as friendly and responsible, and at some point that evening, she left to walk home alone — something that, in a small city like Elmira in the 1960s, probably didn’t seem especially dangerous.

32 year old Brandon Williams was last seen on March 5th 2019. It’s always been said that his last sighting was at the Speedway gas station on Route 26N in the town of Maine, NY. He was dropped off in the town of Maine by his parents where he was picked up at that Speedway by a female acquaintance. And while that story has always been widely reported, anyone local who speaks about this case hears that the last place people saw Brandon Williams alive was a party that evening. A party he attended with the female acquaintance that picked him up at the Speedway and other “friends” . It was on March 22nd that Brandon’s parents requested assistance from the police to find their son who they hadn’t or heard from since theyleft him in Maine on March 5th–17 days earlier.

In July of 1991, 48-year-old Diane L. Hoppert left her home in Owego, New York, planning to

travel east on Interstate 88 toward Albany. She was headed to New York’s capital city to attend

a work-related seminar. The route would take her through quiet rural stretches of upstate New

York—past towns like Oneonta, Cobleskill, and areas near Howes Cavern and Schenectady.

At the time, Interstate 88 was a relatively quiet highway. Long distances separated exits, and in

the early 1990s there were no cell phones to quickly call for help if something went wrong.

Unfortunately, something did.