

"When somebody goes missing and they are a blue-eyed, blonde woman, it's all over the news," Perry said at the time. Perry stood with Marcia Williams at a 2018 press conference and underscored how hard it was to draw media interest to the disappearances. In the many years since, there have been several major developments.įilmmaker Tyler Perry became an advocate for the families of the missing men and offered a reward for tips. "I didn't do anything wrong," he told me as his children played in the yard of his Naples home. I think he only talked to me back then because I dropped in the fact that we share a hometown in rural Illinois.

And, in the news reports I've dug up, I still look to be the last reporter who interviewed Calkins. He told me Felipe came to the United States from Mexico at 19 with dreams of making money and starting a family. I also interviewed Felipe Santos' father. Terrance Williams' mother, Marcia Williams, sits in her apartment surrounded by some of his possessions, which fill a corner of her dining room.
