By fantastic coincidence, while skating the IMDb searching for something else, it occurred to me to look up my introduction to crime documentaries, the old bellwether Forensic Files - while an airing about this horrible case was being covered on a different later series (Trace Of Evil)! That hour-long segment had more details to it, yet the show & its take on this awful incident owe a debt of gratitude for its very existence to Forensic Files. The mere availability of more information cannot gainsay the pioneering structure of FF, which atmospheric yet "quiet" presentation (without the common-senseless rantings of interviewers e.g. the bloated abc/nbc/cbs productions) coupled with the superlative narration of Peter Thomas, hooked the viewer/listener from the start & kept them there, absorbing situational details and hankering for more. This having debuted the same year as Fargo, the object which caused the titular Disappearance was thus not influenced thereby in its disgusting crime; but I bet I'm not alone in wishing that its fate could have been made the same as its victim. The groundwork had been laid for a long series of revelations about the the vile darkness behind the worst of crimes, as well as detailing the efforts to bring due justice for them.