Some disappearances don’t fade.

They linger — because they are unresolved.

In small towns, especially, when a missing child becomes part of the landscape. A name whispered. A memory that refuses to settle.

This is the story of two teenage girls who vanished within a year of each other — in towns just miles apart — along the New York–Pennsylvania border.

One girl was never found.

The other was found murdered.

And decades later, their stories remain strangely, hauntingly connected. This is the stories of Mary Lou Bostwick & Sharon Coston.

In the early morning hours of April 2nd, 2008 police received a call that a woman’s screams were heard near the 500 Block of Jennings Creek in Killawog, NY. Killawog is located just north of Whitney Point, NY and only about 15 minutes north of Binghamton. When the police arrived at the location they did their due diligence, but found nothing out of the ordinary. What the police were unaware of, at that time, is at the exact time when the 911 call originally came in, Bethanie Lynne Dougherty mysteriously vanished from her home directly next door from where the call was made. Since that morning, there has been no sign whatsoever of where Bethanie could’ve gone or who is responsible for taking her. In this story, I’m going to share what happened in the evening leading up to Bethanie Dougherty’s disappearance and everything we know about her case. This case is truly a night mare, something truly out of the Twilight Zone.

In the quiet hours before dawn on March 17th, 2011 — St. Patrick’s Day — the city of Binghamton was asleep.

Then, at 3:30 a.m., flames erupted on the front porch of a home at 20 Milford Street.

Inside were seven members of the Aissa family.

Six would escape.

One would not.

Seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Aissa — a twin, a brother, a son — never made it out.

And for nearly fifteen years, the truth about what happened that night would remain buried beneath smoke, silence, and unanswered questions.