He Said She'd Gone to Denmark. Investigators Found One Tooth by the River.
When thirty nine year old Helle Crafts disappeared from her Connecticut home in November of nineteen eighty six, her husband Richard suggested she had simply gone away.
There was no body.
There was no eyewitness to a murder.
And investigators could not even begin a conventional homicide case until they could establish that Helle was actually dead.
Then a highway worker remembered seeing something strange near the Housatonic River.
A truck.
A wood chipper.
A man working in the middle of the night.
Police searched the riverbank.
What they recovered was almost unimaginably small.
Hair.
Bone…
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