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A Quilt Square Leads a Mother to Her Missing Daughter: The Lily Armstrong Reunion

A Quilt Square Leads a Mother to Her Missing Daughter: The Lily Armstrong Reunion

A faded quilt square with a hand-stitched label reading "Connie Armstrong, Portsmith OH, 1987" turns up in a church donation box in August 2011, and one volunteer instantly recognizes a pattern seen only once in an Armstrong living room. Can a single piece of fabric break twelve years of not-knowing and lead a mother back to the daughter who vanished at sixteen?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of tangible clues - a bus ticket, a shelter record, a forum account, and finally the quilt square found at…

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