West mentions that “Girls go missing all the time” and it was the urging of his boss, Danny Gilchrist, to dig deeper into Mattie and Sadie’s story. May Beth reached out to West in hopes of finding Sadie. In July, a car with Sadie’s belongings was found abandoned in Fairfield, Colorado. In June, Mattie’s sister Sadie, disappeared. West explains in a voice over that he heard about the story of Mattie when working in the area but it wasn’t until a year after the fire, sitting in his New York office, that West considered investigating after receiving a phone call from May Beth.
Mattie has a 19 year old sister, Sadie Hunter, a surrogate grandmother in May Beth Foster, and her mother, Claire Southern, who has not been in the picture for a while. Mattie was 13 years old and had been reported missing three days earlier. The body of Mattie Southern was found by the fire crew between the burning schoolhouse and the apple orchard. West McCray introduces the listeners to Cold Creek, Colorado, and interviews local residents May Beth Foster, a grandmotherly figure who is the manager of Sparkling River Estates trailer park, and resident Carl Earl, who contacted 911 on October 3rd after seeing smoke in the sky over the abandoned schoolhouse.
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