Josh Mankiewicz

Have you ever known someone who has gone missing?

We did not expect that the response would be overwhelming.

Since then, Dateline has covered hundreds of missing persons cases for our online digital series and for the podcast it spawned, both called Missing in America.

I'm her only voice.

Each story is different.

However, when you speak with the people involved, the parents, the siblings, the friends, you will hear some common threads, heartbreak, confusion, and often a determination that does not fade with time.

Missing in America began as a way to shine a light on the stories of the missing.

Now four seasons in, we gathered some of the people we met along the way to find out what they have learned in an often agonizing search for answers and what advice they have for others walking the same difficult path.

I'm Josh Mankiewicz, and this is After the Verdict, a series for our Dateline Premium subscribers.

I want to welcome all of you to this special panel.

This is family members.

This is advocates.

This is a former detective.

So just to get everybody up to speed, Sue Quackenbush is the mother of Danielle Lopez.

She disappeared last year in central New Jersey.

Nan Trogdon is a retired detective in Cumberland County, North Carolina, and she investigated the disappearance of a guy named Kent Jacobs.

Rachel.

Rachel Barth was a close friend of a guy named Tyler Goodrich, and he disappeared from Nebraska and was subsequently found, although not alive, unfortunately, but at least there is a sort of semi-answer to that.

Colleen Nick is the mother of Morgan Nick, who disappeared from Arkansas.

And also my friend, Raven Payment, who I met just recently at the CrimeCon.