Josh Mankiewicz

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.

And she is an advocate from Colorado's MMIR task force.

She's worked on a lot of these issues.

Travis Ware, you're the brother of Alexis Ware.

She disappeared from South Carolina.

Everybody, take us back to sort of the first 48 hours, the first moments when somebody disappears.

Because, Travis, I mean, a lot of people are told what you were told, which is, well, you got to wait two days.

I mean, you guys tell me whether you agree with this.