Mr. Ballin

As more weeks passed with no new leads or evidence, the search began to lose momentum.

Kerry's brother Joseph had started his own campaign, going to different newspapers and asking them to keep putting photos of Kerry front and center.

Through his efforts, thousands of people had seen Kerry's photograph, which was a shocking level of publicity for the year 1900.

Kerry's face was by now well known across the city.

But despite all this, by April of 1900, so about a month after Carrie's disappearance, the newspapers and detectives moved on.

And Carrie's case went cold.

Joseph and his family never stopped believing that Carrie was out there somewhere.

And so every so often, over the next several months, they would put an article in the paper with a message to Carrie in it, promising that if she came out of hiding, she wouldn't have to go back to the hospital.

She could come home instead.

But Carrie never did.

Fast forward two years to a day in September of 1902 inside of an operating theater at a hospital right near the one Carrie had disappeared from.

A medical student wove through the crowd to a front row seat in the theater, which gave him a clear view of the operating room right below.

The student felt his heart speed up because in the center of the operating room, he saw a table covered with a bright white sheet, and he knew that underneath that sheet, there was a dead body.

He and his fellow medical students had come to the operating theater today to watch a skilled surgeon dissect a real human corpse.

This demonstration was, at the time, one of the only ways that doctors in training could gain a better understanding of human anatomy.

And it was considered a huge privilege for them to get to witness something like this.

The sound of footsteps echoed from below and immediately the audience fell silent.

The student saw the surgeon approach the operating table and he listened closely as the surgeon explained what they could all expect to see during this demonstration.

Then the student watched as the surgeon stepped up to the operating table and removed the white sheet, revealing the pale face of the corpse underneath, with a gold tooth glinting from its open mouth.

The student had expected to feel amazement when he saw the body, but instead he felt an unsettling wave of déjà vu.