Mr. Ballin

Carrie had bad eyesight and she was generally nervous and unhappy, but she wasn't stupid.

She had grown up in the city and knew not to wander alone at night down country roads.

Plus, he knew Rufus had gotten a lighter sentence in return for his story and cooperation, so how true could it really be?

And also, part of Joseph just wanted to believe that his sister had escaped the hospital and found the freedom she so desperately wanted and was now off living happily and choosing not to let anyone find her.

And Joseph would hold onto this belief for a long time, until... On April 26th, 1920, so over 20 years after Carrie's disappearance.

On that day, Joseph got an urgent and confusing telephone call from the police at his home.

An officer said he'd heard from a construction company that was working on a building in town.

It was an orphanage that they were converting to an automobile repair shop, and this construction crew had found something that Joseph just needed to see.

Joseph ended the call and headed straight to the building, having no idea what he was about to find.

Once outside the orphanage, Joseph walked past several construction workers and then stepped inside the building.

Right away, he heard somebody call his name, and he looked over to see a man with thinning white hair walking towards him.

Joseph squinted, looked at the man's face, and then suddenly he recognized him.

It was Detective Manning.

Now Joseph felt a jolt of adrenaline.

Whatever this was, it had to be about his sister.

Joseph asked Manning if Detective Ash was here too, but Manning just shook his head and said no, Ash had passed away a few years earlier.

Before the two men could really talk, they were joined by a member of the construction crew, who handed the Meech a flashlight and gestured for them to follow him.

As Joseph walked through the building, he could see that the construction crew had already made a lot of progress.

But it still looked like parts of the building hadn't changed in decades.

And it was one of these old, untouched areas of the building where this crew member led Joseph and Manning.