Mr. Ballin

Four hours later, Mark stood on a rocky lookout point, scanning the city below.

Patryk's hospital stood in the middle of Set's business district, which was packed with canals and cafes and tourist spots.

And Mark and a handful of Patryk's friends had spent all morning checking them one by one, looking for Patryk.

But they hadn't found him or any sign of him.

And so now Mark had turned his focus to some of the more remote areas around the city.

like the hill behind the park where he now stood.

But there was still no sign of Patrik anywhere.

And so Mark was trying to think of anywhere else his brother might have gone when his phone rang.

It was one of Patrik's friends from the search party, and he'd just found Patrik's scooter outside the park at the bottom of the hill, just a short drive from where Mark was.

And so Mark told him not to touch anything, and he sprinted back to his car, and he sped down the hill, and he left the park, and he stopped in the parking lot right outside.

And sure enough, there in the lot was Patrik's scooter.

And as Mark looked at the scooter and at the quiet park all around him, he felt a cold weight settle in his stomach.

Because he really couldn't think of any reason why Patrik would leave his scooter here overnight.

In the back of his mind all day, Mark had been worried that something bad could have happened to his little brother.

But now, after seeing this scooter, he felt sure of it.

Almost two weeks later, at 8 a.m.

on July 5, 2014, Detective Boris Ferrier took the exit ramp toward the French town of Sète.

And as the sunlight hit his windshield, he had to squint as he looked out at the long stretch of beaches and canals framed by these beautiful rocky cliffs in a small, dense urban center.

Verriere was a senior investigator from the nearby city of Montpellier, but he had just been called in to take over a missing persons case that had stumped the local police and set.

About two weeks earlier, 49-year-old Patrick Izoard had disappeared after going on a date with a woman whose name was Audrey Louvet.