More than 30 years after her sister disappeared without a word, Rosemary Westbrook of Benton, Arkansas, placed a forlorn notice on a website listing missing persons.
Browsing the internet after his wife had gone to bed, Todd Matthews spotted the notice and almost fell off his chair. He raced into his bedroom an shouted to his wife, "Lori, wake up. I found her!"
That chance internet encounter not only led to a unique breakthrough in a missing persons case that had troubled Kentucky authorities since the body of a young woman wrapped in a tent tarpaulin was discovered by a local oil driller in 1968.
It also inspired a remarkable network of amateur American detectives who seek out the real identities of nameless corpses held in police morgues or buried in anonymous graves.
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