Shannon Melendi was a 19-year-old college sophomore at Emory University when she disappeared without a trace on 26 March 1994. Shannon’s parents immediately told police their daughter had been kidnapped. Authorities dismissed that theory until they received a mysterious phone call and a clue, that would take this investigation to a whole new level.

Correspondent Troy Roberts reports.

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