As it goes for detectives assigned to the disappearance of Deanie Peters, Paul VanRhee is not the first, but he hopes to be the one to solve the decades-old cold case.
He hopes that, by laying bare its facts and black holes, someone will come forward with a memory, a feeling they haven’t been able to shake after all this time. He hopes this will be the missing piece, will explain what previously has been unexplainable.
“It’s just come to this point,” VanRhee said. “The witnesses are aging. The family is aging. It’s just come to a point where it’s something we want to do, to try to get the information we need to solve the case.”…