Unraveling Secrets: Benjamin Hale on the Mysterious Disappearance That Haunts the Ozarks
Cave Mountain blends true-crime, memoir, and cultural history in a highly atmospheric, lyrical, and well-researched account of two crimes, two little girls, who went missing in the same Arkansas Ozarks. The twist is that the cases were over twenty years apart, one in 1978, and the other in 2001. How were they connected? Were they connected?
No one can dispel the innocence of childhood. When a little girl goes missing, people take notice. When she is out with her grandparents, seasoned hikers, and mysteriously disappears, our hearts ache. I recall being a 6-year-old girl in the woods that surrounded my grandparent’s Southern Missouri cabin. Often alone, playing as kids did, the house — and my grandparents — a stone’s throw away. Like Haley, the missing 6-year-old Hale writes about — his first cousin — I also had an imaginary friend.
