Unraveling Secrets: Benjamin Hale on the Mysterious Disappearance That Haunts the Ozarks
Benjamin Hale: My family is from Arkansas, but I grew up in Colorado. We would visit Arkansas usually every winter during the holidays and often in the summers, too — so I feel I know the place, especially Northwest Arkansas, pretty well. I was a senior in high school when Haley went missing. She disappeared on a Sunday morning, and most of my extended family (along with many family friends and also many total strangers) were out helping to search for her by Sunday night, and more arrived on Monday. My father’s family was already pretty heartsore because my grandmother was nearing the end, and very sick with dementia — she would die four months later.
